Put this up yesterday when it was tomorrow, and now it’s TODAY!

MMRT? That’s what they’re calling the project above — Mankato-Mississippi River Transmission.

COMMENT PERIOD CLOSES

4:30p on JUNE 10, 2025

Minnesota need? Ummmmmm, no… It’s all based on MISO claims:

It’s not real clear from the notice, but this is THE time for the public to comment on need. These are hearings for both the need docket (E002/CN-22-53) and the routing docket (E002/TL-23-157).

And as an NSP engineer testified way back in the Arrowhead hearing, “It’s all connected,” and that big long line described above is just a part of a much bigger plan:

And it’s moving right along, so don’t wait. Now’s the time to show up:

My car is acting up and I can’t get it in until Monday, so we’ll see how this goes.

Prior Legalectric posts on this project:

Public Hearings & NO NOTICE to 1,341 newly affected landowners May 11th, 2025

More on the 1,341 Landowners May 14th, 2025

Here’s the Commerce-EERA chart on landowner notifications from December, 2024:

Comparing this and the numbers from the Xcel notice, and they just don’t add up:

I sent these Info Requests to make some sense of it: