{"id":883,"date":"2009-07-08T12:51:07","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T19:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=883"},"modified":"2009-07-28T06:45:01","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T13:45:01","slug":"capx-2020-in-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=883","title":{"rendered":"CapX 2020 in Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"

CapX 2020 is ramping up in Wisconsin, and they’re jumping on the “it’s for wind” bandwagon.\u00c2\u00a0 What’s so hard to understand about “OFFSHORE WIND” and cutting fossil generation?\u00c2\u00a0 There’s plenty of coal along the lake to shut down!<\/p>\n

Here’s the wind resource at 100 meters:<\/p>\n

\"wisconsinwind-300meter\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And as to coal plants just waiting to be shut down, from CoalSwarm<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Plant Name<\/th>\n County<\/th>\n Owner<\/th>\n Year(s) Built<\/th>\n Capacity<\/th>\n 2006 SO2<\/sub> Emissions<\/th>\n SO2<\/sub>\/MW Rank<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Pleasant Prairie<\/a><\/th>\nKenosha<\/td>\nWisconsin Energy<\/a><\/td>\n1980, 1985<\/td>\n1233 MW<\/td>\n28,566 tons<\/td>\n120<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
South Oak Creek<\/a><\/th>\nMilwaukee<\/td>\nWisconsin Energy<\/a><\/td>\n1959-67<\/td>\n1192 MW<\/td>\n13,594 tons<\/td>\n198<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Columbia<\/a><\/th>\nColumbia<\/td>\nAlliant Energy<\/a><\/td>\n1975, 1978<\/td>\n1023 MW<\/td>\n22,396 tons<\/td>\n145<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Edgewater<\/a><\/th>\nSheboygan<\/td>\nAlliant Energy<\/a><\/td>\n1951, 1969, 1985<\/td>\n770 MW<\/td>\n15,759 tons<\/td>\n128<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Weston<\/a><\/th>\nMarathon<\/td>\nIntegrys<\/a><\/td>\n1954-60, 1981<\/td>\n492 MW<\/td>\n12,596 tons<\/td>\n127<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pulliam<\/a><\/th>\nBrown<\/td>\nIntegrys<\/a><\/td>\n1943-64<\/td>\n410 MW<\/td>\n10,869 tons<\/td>\n100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

It’s all about wind?\u00c2\u00a0 NOT!\u00c2\u00a0 It’s more transmission lies…<\/p>\n

ATC studies more high-voltage lines to import wind power<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n


\nBy Thomas Content of the Journal Sentinel<\/a><\/p>\n

July 7, 2009 <\/a><\/p>\n

American Transmission Co. will start public outreach in the coming months to discuss the possibility of building a high-voltage power line from La Crosse to Madison, in conjunction with Xcel Energy.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This has really been identified as a circuit that would be desirable to move wind generation from west to east,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said John Procario, president and chief executive of American Transmission Co.<\/a><\/p>\n

Xcel Energy, ATC and Dairyland Power Cooperative have been studying a possible Madison-La Crosse line for more than a year.<\/a><\/p>\n

But in a new wrinkle, ATC said it will study the possibility of an even higher-voltage power line, at 765,000 volts. That would be capable of carrying more power than any other power line in Wisconsin.<\/a><\/p>\n

Xcel is planning to build a line in Minnesota that would tie in to the La Crosse area, as part of Xcel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s CapX2020 series of transmission projects.<\/a><\/p>\n

ATC is also exploring other projects to beef up the state\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ability to transport wind power, including a possible line from Dubuque, Iowa to Madison. Also under consideration: another 345,000-volt line in eastern Wisconsin along Lake Michigan, Pewaukee-based ATC said.<\/a><\/p>\n

ATC and Xcel would collaborate on a La Crosse-to-Madison project, said Procario.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d work together on it, but we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re hoping that we have a sizable portion of the project,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<\/a><\/p>\n

Detailed cost estimates aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t yet available, but a 150-mile 345,000-line is likely to cost hundreds of millions of dollars, he said. If studies and public outreach meetings proceed well, the company could file formal plans with state regulators seeking approval of the project in late 2011.<\/a><\/p>\n

Consideration of a 765,000-volt line comes at a time when ITC Holdings of Michigan has unveiled plans for an upper Midwest network of power lines of that scale. That project, estimated to cost $10 billion across the region, has been named the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153green power express.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CapX 2020 is ramping up in Wisconsin, and they’re jumping on the “it’s for wind” bandwagon.\u00c2\u00a0 What’s so hard to understand about “OFFSHORE WIND” and cutting fossil generation?\u00c2\u00a0 There’s plenty of coal along the lake to shut down! Here’s the …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[180,179,14,70,178],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wisconsin","tag-american-transmission-company","tag-atc","tag-capx-2020","tag-green-power-express","tag-transmission-for-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}