Xcel Annual Shareholder Meeting
May 14th, 2018
FYI, you only get to go inside if you register, and to register, you have to have owned stock by March 20, 2018. You have to register, and then THEY decide if you can go.
IT WILL BE WEBCAST — CLICK THIS XCEL LINK!
Xcel Energy’s 2017 peak demand – DOWN again
April 3rd, 2018
Once more with feeling, Xcel Energy’s peak demand is DOWN, DOWN, DOWN! From their year end SEC filing: Xcel Energy 2017 10-K
And over the last 17 years:
That 8,546 MW is down 1,313 from the 2006 peak. Xcel is now at legislature pushing hard for free rein on money to rehab its Prairie Island plant here in Red Wing. The same plant that was being rehabbed, got a Certificate of Need, and then they withdrew it saying it wasn’t needed. Oh… and now? It’s not adding up, folks.
AFCL Scoping Comments filed today
January 3rd, 2018
Map of transmission — click for larger view
Just filed, Association of Freeborn Landowner Scoping Comments for the Environmental Assessment for the transmission line for the Freeborn Wind Energy wind project:
And tomorrow, on the wind project side, the Commission is going to make decision on whether to issue the Draft Site Permit — we’re number 7 on the agenda:
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Thursday, January 4, 2018, 9:30am |
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| Where | Large Hearing Room 121 7th Place E, Suite 350 St. Paul, MN 55101 |
| Event Type | Agenda |
| Industry | Electric, Energy Facilities, Telecom |
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Commerce releases Freeborn Draft Site Permit
December 5th, 2017
Here it is:
17-410+Comments & Draft Site Permit
Now, get to work reading and doing a thorough mark-up!
PPSA Annual Hearing – December 22
November 20th, 2017
Ah, yes, it’s that time of year again… remember this map, way back when, connecting existing coal plants to the proposed CapX 2020 system? (note the Mid-American coal plant built in 2007 over by Council Bluffs isn’t there, it’s at the green lines on the southwest side where transmission starts.)
It’s the Power Plant Siting Act Annual Hearing!
Here’s the full notice:
2017_Docket 17-18_Notice_201711-137509-01
And going back in history:
2006 Report to PUC – Docket 06-1733
2007 Report to PUC – Docket 07-1579
2008 Report to PUC – Docket 08-1426
2009 Report to PUC – Docket 09-1351
2010 Report to PUC – Docket 10-222
2011 Report to PUC – Docket 11-324
2012 Report to PUC – Docket 12-360
2013 Report to PUC – Docket 13-965
2014 Summary Report– Docket 14-887
2015 Summary Report – Docket 15-785
2016 Summary Report — Docket 16-18
Here’s the summary of what I had to say last year, from the report above:
Does this sound familiar?
Meanwhile, we’re still waiting on the rulemaking, 12-1246, which addresses PPSA siting rules, Minn. R. Ch. 7850. To see rulemaking docket, which ostensibly is to address the changes in the 2005 Transmission Omnibus Bill from Hell, go HERE and look up rulemaking docket 12-1246.
I expect this rulemaking to reach the Public Utilities Commission before I drop dead. But I’m starting to wonder. The “12” in “12-1246” means the docket was opened in 2012. This is 2017, almost 2018. Good grief!
