It’s here, 2nd HUGE transmission line application to drop this week, FIFTH since the beginning of the year, FIFTH in the last 30 days! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!

Here’s the Application – I recommend starting off with the Application, then Appendix D, Xcel Energy Revenue Requirement and Appendix E, Planning Analysis (hey, App E is ONLY 400+ pages!!!):

The Gopher-Badger 765kV Transmission Project application is soon to drop, per today’s filing:

The PERTINENT part, application expected February 6, 2026, THIS FRIDAY:

When it’s out, I’ll post it here.

Oh, lordy, a handful, or more, of prior non-transmission clients affected by this — got notice from two recently, they learned from postcards in the mail. No, that’s not campaign pre-caucus blurbs! Very glad they didn’t throw them away. Also heard of another person down in the Iowa section today! So many are affected by this MISO Tranche 2.1.

Now, on to the “Power on Midwest” projects that dropped today:

These were FOUR Certificate of Need dockets, CN-25-117, CN-25-118, CN-25-119, and CN-25-120. They’ve been consolidated into ONE. Here’s the rough breakdown from the application (linked below, p. 4-5):

Here’s the application, all across southwest and south central Minnesota, and heading north to the “North Rochester” substation north of Pine Island and on to Hampton:

A little light reading so you’ll be ready for the round of scoping & early comment meetings in a week or two…

Scoping meetings next week: False alarm – meetings will be rescheduled, “prior to March 16th”

Here’s the full notice — COMMENTS ARE DUE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26 – 4:30 p.m.

Note this project’s start at the Iron Range substation, where the Great Northern Transmission Project ends, at the Iron Range substation:

Application for the Iron Range to Arrowhead transmission line is IN, well, ARE in, both the Certificate of Need and Transmission Routing — JOINT application. Check out Appendix J – it’s from the EQB’s Exemption docket for Arrowhead-Weston! There’s the EQB Exemption, the ALJ’s Recommendation (from a 2 week hearing) and the TRANSCRIPT from the EQB meeting where we got the 800MVA limitation on the output of the Arrowhead substation into Wisconsin. What a hoot!