Just in, Notice of Prima Facie Determination and Order for Probable Cause Hearing:

Here are the Resolutions filed thus far by Counties and Townships affected by PowerOn Midwest 765kV transmission (PUC Docket CN-25-117) through their communities. Some are forms, fill in the blank even, and I’m hoping that there will be more individual ones filed — individually drafted filings have greater weight, greater impact.

Counties:

Townships:

Notice of the Agenda for the Public Utilities Commission October 22, 2026 meeting has two most interesting items. Briefing papers will be out before the 22nd.

The Xcel Electric Service Agreement is interesting because there’s a request to refer this for a Contested Case and to remove the redactions from filings. YES! How is the public to consider this if we don’t know what’s at issue? Some filings below.

The other is the Site Permit for Lemon Hill Solar, the first solar permit I know of where the ALJ Recommended denial (sort of like Freeborn Wind where we got a recommendation of denial, and then Xcel and the Commission went behind closed doors and changed “guidance” to allow “garbage in-garbage out” noise modeling.) Recommendation below.

Check out the ways that the Lemon Hill Solar project did not meet the siting criteria.

TWENTY-FOUR CENTS A GALLON?

$6.113 – $0.244 Federal Tax – $5.869

That’s no help.

STOP THE WAR!

Here’s E.O. 14435:

Xcel Energy & Google have applied for a double circuit 345 kV transmission line to hop across Hwy. 52 at 500th from the “North Rochester” substation north of Pine Island to its proposed/planned data center, to the south of 500th with FOUR substations! Yes, that’s the map above.

Pine Island data center transmission

June 2nd, 2026

Today, Xcel Energy and Google (Allen Gleckner, formerly Fresh Energy) filed Responses to Comments in the hearing and docket and their proposed Findings of Fact: