Applicants include: Central Minnesota Municipal Power Agency ; Dairyland Power Cooperative ; Great River Energy ; Minnesota Power ; Minnkota Power Cooperative ; Missouri River Energy Services ; Otter Tail Power Company ; Rochester Public Utilities ; Southern Minnesota Municipal Power Agency ; Wisconsin Public Power, Inc. ; and Xcel Energy.
"...a printed copy of the application filed with the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (Commission) for the Alma--La Crosse portion of the CapX 2020 Hampton--Rochester--La Crosse 345 kV Transmission Project (Application). It is being filed by Northern States Power Company (Xcel Energy), Dairyland Power Cooperative, and Wisconsin Public Power Inc. (the Applicants). This is the final version and replaces previous versions of the Application. The applicants seek authority to construct, own, and operate new transmission facilities in order to meet future local load-serving needs for La Crosse, Alma, Buffalo City, Fountain City, Arcadia, Galesville, Trempealeau, Holmen, Onalaska and surrounding areas. The Project would involve construction of a 345kV transmission line crossing of the Mississippi River at Alma, Wisconsin and would continue to a new substation near Holmen, Wisconsin. The project would be 40 to 55 miles long depending on the route chosen."--Letter of transmittal
The Public Utilities Commission of Minnesota is considering the project proposed by Xcel Energy--on behalf of its CapX2020 co-owners Dairyland Power, Rochester Public Utilities, WPPI Energy and Southern Minnesota Municipal Power Agency--to construct and operate a 345 kilovolt and a 161 kilovolt transmission line between Hampton, Minnesota, Rochester, Minnesota, and LaCrosse, Wisconsin. The portion of the project within the state of Minnesota would traverse parts of Dakota, Goodhue, Olmsted and Wabasha counties, with one potential route alternative that runs along the Rice-Goodhue county border. The project also includes the construction of a new substation in an area between Zumbrota and Pine Island, Minnesota.
"Powerline describes the opposition of rural Minnesotans to the building of a high voltage powerline across 430 miles of farmland from central North Dakota to the Twin Cities suburbs. Convinced that the safety of their families and the health of their land was disregarded in favor of the gluttonous energy consumption of cities, the farmer-led revolt began as questioning and escalated to rampant civil disobedience, peaking in 1978 when nearly half of Minnesota's state highway patrol was engaged in stopping sabotage of the project."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
