AWA Goodhue Wind Testimony filed
February 28th, 2011
First AWA Goodhue’s testimony, and then ours… It’s been quite the week… quite the last TWO weeks… were I still driving, I’d be out of hours on my second log book:
In the Goodhue Wind case, testimony was due, the Applicants’ a while ago, and now our intervenors’ Testimony. For the full docket, go to www.puc.state.mn.us and to “Search eDockets” and search for “08-1233.”
First, here’s what AWA Goodhue has filed:
Testimony – Direct – Robertson
AWA Exhibit 5A is too large to load
And on to the Intervenors, on the next post…
Xcel’s 2010 10-K is out!
February 28th, 2011
Yes, you know you’re one sick puppy when you get excited about those SEC alerts in the inbox! Xcel’s 2010 10-K has been filed:
Check p. 11 for the Peak Demand info – yes, it’s up a bit, but we’re lower than 2005, and there’s a long ways to go to the peak in 2006:
Peak demand is not exactly what we should be planning for these days, well, probably anytime, because peak is so rare, and they just try to sell that excess in the valleys, not that there’s a market anywhere else either!
PATH transmission line WITHDRAWN!!!!
February 28th, 2011
The application for the Potomac Appalachian Transmission Highline, PATH, has been withdrawn. Notice was just sent out, not long after PJM issued a press release saying that PATH was “delayed.”
And here’s the one we’ve been waiting for, Potomac Edison’s Notice of Withdrawal (that didn’t take long!):
I’m looking on the PJM website, and can’t find the 2010 RTEP, so I call the number on the bottom of the Press Release, 866-756-6397, wanting to know where the 2010 RTEP is (one of the attorneys on the Susquehanna-Roseland line had asked about that, and I was stunned I couldn’t find it!!!), and when the 2011 RTEP is due out. No one can help, they’re in a meeting, “anyone that could help you is in a meeting.” Someone will call back… Uh-huh… right…
What they say is what we’ve been saying for how long?
PJM annually reviews its transmission expansion plans. A preliminary analysis suggests that the need for the line has moved further into the future. Therefore, the PJM Board has decided to hold the PATH project in abeyance in the 2011 Regional Transmission Expansion Plan (RTEP). The preliminary analysis used the most current economic forecasts, demand response commitments and potential new generation.
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Over the last two years, the recession and the dramatic change in the economic outlook caused PJM to forecast lower growth in the use of electricity. Growth in the use of electricity correlates with economic growth. The forecasted slower growth rate likely will delay the need for the line.
So now, how to find that 2010 RTEP???
Kenyon Wind Project permit expired…
February 27th, 2011
The Kenyon Wind Project, the vaporware project that was the first “C-BED” project to come out the chute, the one with no turbines, no Power Purchase Agreement, nothing that makes a project a project, the Public Utilities Commission took it off life support, and despite the Motion for Reconsideration to let it linger on, the PUC did not take up the Motion for Reconsideration, and instead let it die.
This is a project that was granted a permit in 2007, but just couldn’t get it up!
For the full PUC page, GO HERE and search for 06-1445.
Lil’ Bro is headed back home
February 27th, 2011
After a decade or more hiatus in Lake Havasu and then Pasco, Little Bro is headed back home. He and Kim bought a foreclosure condo in December and sold their house in a week, maybe less, closed Friday and are headed back. He’s got this old Ford pick up, I’d like to say 60’s, but it’s really probably 80s, with one of those tacky old campers on it, pulling his new 25 foot toy trailer, with his Monte inside plus what little they didn’t sell with the house. Kim’s son Jesse is driving her car, and it’s another one of those Clampett processions I’ve been seeing lately, 46 mph up the hills in Montana…
Keep an eye out on those webcams, they’ll hit the border sometime this afternoon!