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Fact sheets (PDF format)

• CapX2020 proposed transmission line projects - overview (06-20-2012)
• Bemidji-Grand Rapids project (02-03-2012)
• Fargo-St. Cloud project update (01-26-2012)
• Monticello-St. Cloud project update (08-22-2011)
• Brookings County-Hampton project (08-04-2011)
• Hampton-Rochester-La Crosse project update (01-05-2012)
• Big Stone South-Brookings County project update (4-22-2013)
• Minnesota regulatory process for high voltage transmission lines
• North Dakota regulatory process for high voltage transmission lines
• South Dakota regulatory process for high voltage transmission lines
• Wisconsin regulatory process for high voltage transmission lines
• Birds and power lines
• CapX2020 transmission line infrastructure (05-02-2012)
• Upper Midwest high voltage transmission projects 1967-2007
• Transmission planning through construction: A decade-long process
• Electricity usage continues to climb
• Electric and magnetic fields (EMF): the basics
• Underground transmission lines (05-03-2010)
• Right-of-way acquisition and construction process (01-05-2012)
• Understanding easements and rights-of-way – Minnesota (07-15-2010)
• Understanding easements and rights-of-way – North Dakota (03-31-2011)
• Implosive devices used for transmission line construction (04-24-2013)
• Helicopters used to string transmission line (04-24-2013)

Presentations

• CapX2020 update to the Minnesota Legislative Energy Commission

Glossary

• Energy-related terms and acronyms

FAQs

• Frequently asked questions about CapX2020, improved infrastructure benefits, transmission options, safety, property easements and public participation

Construction videos

Go to Construction Videos page to view the following videos:

• CapX2020 Economic Benefits
• CapX2020 construction matting
• Construction of a transmission line
• CapX2020 transmission line construction using a helicopter
• CapX2020 sets transmission structure in a wetland
• Demonstration of implosive connectors (Ciro Pasini)

Dependable electricity

• Learn how dependable electricity gets to you

Newsletters and postcards (PDF format)

• September 2007 CapX2020 open houses scheduled
• December 2007 CapX2020 update
• March 2008 CapX2020 Fargo-St. Cloud-Monticello project update
• March 2008 CapX2020 Brookings County-Hampton project update
• May 2008 CapX2020 Hampton-Rochester-La Crosse project update
• May 2008 CapX2020 Fargo-St. Cloud-Monticello project open houses scheduled
• June 2008 CapX2020 Brookings County-Hampton project update
• June 2008 CapX2020 Fargo-St. Cloud-Monticello project update
• June 2008 CapX2020 Hampton-Rochester-La Crosse project update
• August 2008 CapX2020 Brookings project update
• September 2008 CapX2020 Hampton-Rochester-La Crosse project 75th Street corridor update
• December 2008 CapX2020 Hampton-Rochester-La Crosse project update
• January 2009 Brookings County-Hampton Route Permit application filed
• April 2009 Monticello-St. Cloud Route Permit application filed
• July 2009 CapX2020 Red River-St. Cloud project update
• October 2009 CapX2020 Fargo-St. Cloud Route Permit application filed
• January 2010 CapX2020 Hampton-Rochester-La Crosse Route Permit application filed
• May 2010 law judge recommends route for Brookings County-Hampton project
• May 2010 Fargo-St. Cloud public meetings scheduled in North Dakota
• June 2010 law judge recommends route for Monticello-St. Cloud project
• August 2010 MN PUC approves Brookings County-Hampton Route Permit
• September 2010 Fargo-St. Cloud project draft EIS public meetings scheduled
• November 2010 Fargo-St. Cloud project Route Permit application public hearings scheduled
• December 2010 state adds Hampton-Rochester-La Crosse route alternatives for review in environmental study
• March 2011 public open houses scheduled about proposed routes in North Dakota
• March 2011 MN PUC approves Belle Plaine crossing for Brookings County-Hampton project
• May 2011 law judge recommends route for Fargo-St. Cloud project
• June 2011 MN PUC approves Fargo-St. Cloud project Route Permit
• July 2011 public open houses on North Rochester-Chester 161 kV project
• August 2011 Monticello-St. Cloud project helicopter and explosion power line work
• January 2012 Brookings County-Hampton project news
• February 2012 law judge recommends route for Hampton-Rochester-La Crosse project in Minnesota
• April 2012 MN PUC selects final Minnesota route for Hampton-Rochester-La Crosse 345 kV line
• June 2012 CapX2020 hosting public open houses on new transmission line project
• July 2012 PSCW selects final Wisconsin route for Hampton-Rochester-La Crosse 345 kV line
• August 2012 CapX2020 studying route options for Big Stone South-Brookings County project
• September 2012 Brookings County-Hampton project update
• October 2012 CapX2020 hosting public open houses on Big Stone South-Brookings County project
• December 2012 CapX2020 selects proposed route for Big Stone South-Brookings County project
• May 2013 CapX2020 Fargo-St Cloud project construction update

CapX Quarterly (PDF format)

• CapX Quarterly – November 2009
• CapX Quarterly – January 2010
• CapX Quarterly – April 2010
• CapX Quarterly – August 2010
• CapX Quarterly – November 2010
• CapX Quarterly – March 2011
• CapX Quarterly – July 2011
• CapX Quarterly – February 2012
• CapX Quarterly – February 2013

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