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There’s a 60-day Public Comment and Consultation Period which closes on September 7, 2026.

DOE webinar:

Please ensure that all feedback on the Needs Study is submitted to NeedsStudy.Comments@hq.doe.gov.

It’s due every three years, and here’s the one from 2023:

DOE’s National Transmission Needs Study released

February 27th, 2023

Transmission — it’s all connected, and it never ends.

I’d received a pile of documents from the Minnesota Department of Transportation in response to a Data Practices Act Request from a while ago related to PowerOn Midwest, but the email disappeared — I’d had a HUGE chunk of my inbox vanish recently (thankfully I file or delete most of everything, not too much disappeared). Got it back a couple days ago and am going through it, THANK YOU, DOT!

Here’s the request:

Since CapX 2020, even before, the DOT’s Policy of Accommodation has been a factor in the routing of transmission.

I’ll be posting the documents little by little here. The internet is forever, so they’ll never vanish!

Here we go, the Initial Comments on the Iron Range-St. Louis County-Arrowhead transmission project:

Fresh Energy says:

Now that Fresh Energy’s Michael Noble and Allen Gleckner are stumping for Google, I wonder if they’d say that under oath!?!?!

What money can buy… June 21st, 2026

Will add Comments from others if/when they’re filed.

Reports are disappearing, like the WRAO report, and the WIREs Phase II and Appendices below, so here they are for posterity! These Meta boxes are really irritating, I deleted from the upload, but they reappear. To get rid of them, click the grey thing in the upper left:

Here it is, the latest “transmission needs study” from the DOE:

The 60-day Public Comment and Consultation Period closes on September 7, 2026.

Send comments on the Needs Study to NeedsStudy.Comments@hq.doe.gov.