Red Wing intervenes in Prairie Island uprate docket
March 25th, 2009
And what do you see waaaaay in the background? Why, it’s the Prairie Island nuclear plant! It’s been there so long that now they want to relicense it, but at the state, there’s an uprate and dry cask docket, and so there’s a state proceeding, not that there’s much chance of impact, but it’s there…
Transmission in, through and beyond the Chisago Substation
March 23rd, 2009
How much can we take??? As if the Chisago Project wasn’t enough… here we go again…
The upcoming MISO list of transmission projects proposed has the following three items of interest to those in the Chisago area:
- Builds 345 kV circuit from Sherbourne County Station to Chisago County Station in Minnesota
- Builds 345 kV circuit from Hampton Corner Station to Chisago County Station in Minnesota
- Build 345 kV circuit from Chisago County Station in Minnesota to Longwood Station in Wisconsin
Here’s the short version:
AAAAAAAAAAAGH! I’ve got this tune floating through my brain… the hook line, “how can a poor man stand such times and live…”
Thanks to the little eagle-eyed birdie who sent this.
US Chamber launches “NIMBY” website
March 23rd, 2009
The Chamber’s theory: When under siege without a valid argument, start tossing around labels!
It’s weird, they’re missing a lot, missing a lot of states, a lot of projects, and it’s odd the ones they’re picking.
Delaware Projects – NONE
Maryland Projects – NONE
New Jersey Projects – NONE
When the Chamber stick their ham-handed hocks in, that tells me they’re worried they’re represented interests aren’t going to get their way!
The US Chamber sure has changed a lot since Bob Jacobsen worked for them…
Transmission for coal – FERC AD05-3
March 21st, 2009
Yes, all this transmission we see, the hard to believe plans of superhighways across the country, MTEP, JCSP, Green Power Express, TrAIL line, Mid-Atlantic Power Pathway, Susquehanna-Roseland, on and on and on, it’s for coal, we know that, but when the truth jumps up and is as in-your-face as it is at this meeting… well, ya gotta read it to believe it. From the FERC docket entitled PROMOTING REGIONAL TRANSMISSION PLANNING AND EXPANSION TO FACILITATE FUEL DIVERSITY INCLUDING EXPANDED USES OF COAL-FIRED RESOURCES (really, that’s the name…):
Here, from p. 61, is a tantalizing snippet from the Pres. of PJM:
PJM is certainly proud of what has been accomplished to date to open up markets to coal, but there is much more that we and others in this region can do to further enhance that use of coal.
It is for this reason that, today, PJM is setting out by example, a new initiative which we have labeled Project Mountaineer — appropriately titled for the state that we’re in — to utilize our regional transmission expansion planning process to explore ways to further develop an efficient transmission super highway, if you will, to deliver the low-cost coal resources in this region of the country, to market.
And to actually build it when people don’t want it over their land, don’t want to look at it, don’t want the EMF impacts? Well, they say…
About the only answer to that would be some sort of federal siting law that would basically overcome local property rights.
National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors anyone? This was in 2005… as the CapX Technical Report was about to be published, putting all of this into action… sigh….
To look up the entire docket, go HERE and search for AD05-3, and voila, there it is for your edification and reading enjoyment!
It’s all for coal, we know that, and we’ve got to NOT let them get away with this!
Susquehanna-Roseland hearing yesterday!
March 21st, 2009
PPL gets earful at Saw Creek public hearing
Nearly 300 come out for Bushkill power line hearing
Bushkill power line hearings draw hundreds
Let’s take a look at their SEC filings!
Some utility toady on commenting on one of the articles above suggested I buy PPL stock… right… good idea…