What’s become of Excelsior Energy?
December 16th, 2018
Remember Excelsior Energy‘s boondoggle Mesaba Project? Go to the PUC’s search page and search for “05-1993” and “06-668” for the dockets.
A little birdie flew by today, cocked its shiny eye and said…
So following up… Does anyone find it strange that as of August 3, 2018, the registered office of Excelsior Energy and its agent, CEO, and Principal Executive Office Address of Tom Micheletti, is THE ABOVE STORAGE UNIT at 4630 Quebec Avenue North, New Hope, MN 55428?
Last known address: 708 1st St., #421, Minneapolis, sold 2017 for $749,900(verified in Metsa for Congress report, 3/9/2018 donation)… and then there’s Orono: Tom & Julie’s house is for sale.
Did you know that Excelsior Energy got their regulatory perks extended until 2025?!?! Really, look at this, Minn. Stat. 216B.1694, Subd. 3(b)(1), a 2017 legislative boondoggle!
Yes, Excelsior Energy was doing their lobbying in 2017.
Julie Jorgensen has been hustling with Greenmark, our good friends Mark Andrews and Red Wing’s ex-Mayor Dennis Egan. Three Musketeers? Three Stooges?
Then there’s Excelsior Energy Capital. What’s that?!?! Well, a Delaware corp registered in Minnesota in August of 2017, and inquiring minds found out their HQ is a BOAT SLIP at 21950 Minnetonka Boulevard, #210, Excelsior, MN.
Really. Could google maps be wrong? It’s not international waters, but assuredly … ummmm… well, bizarre! Look at their TEAM (can you say photoshopped?). I can’t find direct connections to our friends at Excelsior Energy, but with an operation like this, it’s got to be there! Searching…
Remember AWA Goodhue’s office? And Secretary of State lets them get away with this?
Solar Rulemaking Petition on file at WI PSC
December 12th, 2018
Does anyone else think it odd, when solar projects in Wisconsin are in the 2-10MW range, to apply to site the 300MW Badger Hollow solar project when there are no rules? Yeah, I know, it sounds like Minnesota siting 2,000+ MW of large wind projects with no rules and using small wind standards, way too similar. But this is real. 300MW of solar is a LOT of solar. It’s central station solar. It’s on some of the best ag land in Wisconsin. And it just happens to be on the route of the proposed Cardinal-Hickory Creek transmission line!
What to do? Rulemaking, of course. Yeah, we know how that goes (PUC denies Reconsideration re: Wind Rulemaking), but without rules, how will they reasonably site this project? Without rules, how will they reasonably site any solar project? So of course here we go, the Jewell Jinkins Intervenors’ solar rulemaking petition:
Petition for Rulemaking_JJI_Solar_FINAL_Signed
And Wisconsin’s PSC “ERFed” it today. It’s docket 1-AC-254. It’s my understanding that a comment period will be announced and then the Commission will decide whether or not to proceed with rulemaking.
WI Petition for Rulemaking – Solar siting rules are needed
December 7th, 2018
Photo of DOE project in Alamosa, under 30 MW
There’s a 300MW solar project proposed for southern Wisconsin, in Iowa County. Thing is, as with Minnesota and large wind (PUC denies Reconsideration re: Wind Rulemaking), there are no siting rules for solar in Wisconsin! Really, no rules! Typically thus far, solar projects are 2-10 MW. This one proposed is 300MW! Central station power to put it mildly.
Not only are there no siting rules, but there is no Environmental Impact Statement required for a project covering 3,500 acres!
WHAT?!?!
So on behalf of Jewell Jinkins Intervenors, I’ve just filed this Petition for Rulemaking to get them going on solar rules.
Petition for Rulemaking_JJI_Solar_FINAL_Signed
We shall see what, if anything, they do.
Lots of filing in Wisconsin
November 20th, 2018
Apparently Invenergy doesn’t like the idea that we’re intervening in their Wisconsin dockets. I guess after Freeborn Wind, it’s not hard to understand why.
Intervention in Badger Hollow HUGE 300 MW solar project docket — approved by the Administrative Law Judge (Docket 9697-CE-100):
And then the related dockets, the transmission line and the acquisition docket, appropriately known as the BS docket, our intervention, their objection, and our response. The transmission docket (Docket 9697-CE-101):
Jewell Jinkins_101_Intervention_FINAL
9697-CE-101 Badger Hollow – Response to Request for Intervention (Objection!)
And the acquisition BS docket (Docket 5-BS-228):
Jewell Jinkins_228_Intervention_CORRECTED
Oh, and the Cardinal Hickory Creek 345 kV Transmission Line! Docket 5-CE-146.
Jewell Jinkins Intervenors_Cardinal-Hickory Creek_Intervention
To look up any of these dockets, go to the Wisconsin Public Service Commission’s Search site, and plug in the numbers.
Meanwhile, we’re waiting on the Minnesota Commission meeting on Reconsideration for our Rulemaking Petition, and waiting on two orders, project and transmission, for Freeborn Wind.
And around all these filings, I’ve been to band practice, made wild rice and garbanzo salad, and I hear a Ferndale Market turkey calling…
What a long week it’s been! WHAT? Tuesday?!?! No, really?!?!
Comment Filed – Power Plant Siting Act
February 9th, 2018
Yes, it’s that time of year again, and today’s the deadline for Comments for the Power Plant Siting Act Annual Hearing:
And there ya have it. Until next year…