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Central Minnesota Municipal Power Agency
Dairyland Power Cooperative
Great River Energy
Minnesota Municipal Transmission Group
Minnesota Power
Minnkota Power Cooperative
Missouri River Energy Services
Otter Tail Power Company
Rochester Public Utilities
Southern Minnesota Municipal Power Agency
Wisconsin Public Power Inc.
Xcel Energy
  

Documents

Application for Certificate of Need

An application for a Certificate of Need for three 345-kV projects was filed with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission August 16.

Application for Certificate of Need Supporting Documentation

Related Bills

SF1368
Signed by Governor Pawlenty May 25, 2005, dealing with electric transmission; wind energy tariff; siting and routing authority over large energy facilities; encouraging hydrogen and fuel cell development.

Technical Update

The CapX 2020 Technical Update was released In May, 2005. You can view a PDF of this report here.

View the CapX 2020 Technical Update (without Appendices for quicker downloading) here.

Interim Report

The CapX 2020 Interim Report was released In December, 2004. You can view the PDF version of this report here.

Studies

The Minnesota Department of Commerce is interested in promoting Community Based Energy Development (C-BED) projects in the state of Minnesota. The Department has encouraged the utilities to undertake a study to determine how C-BED projects can be interconnected to the transmission system. The CapX C-BED Interim Report was released in June 2006. The final CapX C-BED Transmission Study Report was released in January 2007.

You can also view PDFs of:
West Central C-Bed map
Southeast C-Bed map
Southeast supporting documentation
Southwest C-Bed map
Southwest supporting documentation
Northeast C-Bed map
Northeast supporting documentation
Northwest C-Bed map
Northwest supporting documentation

The C-Bed 800 MW generation map and C-Bed 1400 MW generation map are also available for download.

Electric and Magnetic Fields

In 2002 the Minnesota Department of Health released a White Paper on Electric and Magnetic Field (EMF) Policy and Mitigation Options evaluating EMF emissions and health effects. You can view the PDF version of this report here.

Links

Here are some helpful links related to CapX 2020:

Minnesota Senate
Minnesota House of Representatives
DOC - Minnesota Department of Commerce
PUC - Public Utilities Commission
Minnelectrans - Minnesota's Electric Transmission
MISO - Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator

  
   

        
 
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