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Minnesota Regulatory Filings
The Role of the Minnesota Public Utilities
Commission
The Public Utilities Commission must grant two
major approvals before a transmission line can be constructed. The
Commission must grant a Certificate of Need and must issue
a Route Permit specifying where
the line is to be routed. An environmental report is prepared
by the Department of Commerce during the need process and an
environmental impact statement is written during routing.
Minnesota
Regulatory Process Fact Sheet
An explanation of the Minnesota Regulatory Process for High Voltage
Transmission Lines.
Certificate of Need: Bemidji-Grand Rapids
230-kV CapX 2020 project
An Application
for Certificate of Need for a 230-kV transmission
line and associated system connections from Bemdji to Grand
Rapids, Minnsota, was filed with the Minnesota Public Utilities
Commission on March 17, 2008.
Certificate of Need – three
345-kV CapX 2020 projects (Rochester, Brookings, Fargo)
An Application
for a Certificate of Need for three Cap X 2020
345-kV projects was filed with the Minnesota
Public Utilities Commission August 16, 2007.
Xcel Energy and Great River Energy submitted the
following supplement to their application to the Minnesota Public
Utilities Commission for the CapX 2020 Certificates of Need.
The Supplement provides all of the information
required by the Commission's decision on October 30, 2007 for
the Application to be accepted as substantially complete.
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Supplement 1 (pdf)
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2 (pdf)
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Supplement 3 (pdf)
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Supplement 4 (pdf)
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Supplement 5 (pdf)
Public
Utilities Commission Orders on 345-kV CON Click
here
Minnesota Office of Administrative Hearings
The CapX 2020 Certificate of
Need application for three 345-kV lines has been referred by
the MN Public Utilities Commission to the Office of Administrative
Hearings and Administrative Law Judge Beverly Heydinger. The
deadline for public comments to the ALJ (by e-mail, mail, or
delivered) is September 26, 2008.
http://www.oah.state.mn.us/cases/250019350-capx2020/index.html
Route
Permits
The other major approval necessary before a high
voltage transmission line can be built is a Route Permit from
the PUC. Once a Route Permit application is filed, the commission’s
regulatory process begins. More information on the Route Permit
is in the Minnesota
Regulatory Process Fact Sheet
- An Application
for a Route Permit for the Bemidji to Grand Rapids
230 kV Transmission Line Project was filed on June 4,
2008 with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission.
The Route Permit application includes detailed route
maps in Appendix A.
CapX
2020 Project Notices
Project notices are listed in
individual project pages
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