#Minnesota

This will be done to deliver more low-cost renewable energy to customers throughout the Upper Midwest and reduce annual consumer costs.

The 201 MW Bent Tree Wind Farm in Minnesota will be expanded to 351 MW.

The 345 kV line would reduce system congestion and assist regional energy providers in reducing carbon emissions.

The transmission line will link around 2000 MW of low-cost wind and solar resources in southwest Minnesota to the grid.

The utility is providing new details on its 175-mile-long transmission line designed to link Minnesota customers with renewable energy sources.

Minnesota Power, an operating division of ALLETE, has secured a $50 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to modernize its HVDC transmission system.

Xcel Energy and other Minnesota power companies have filed plans to move forward with a new power line.

USA, Minnesota: Xcel Energy proposed building a new double-circuit 345-kV transmission line to link at least 2,000 MW of new renewable energy to the grid.

USA, Minesota: Xcel Energy has kicked off plans to build a roughly $500 million, 225-km power line in Minnesota.

USA, Minnesota, Minneapolis: On 20 April, Xcel Energy filed with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission an application for a site permit.

Willmar Municipal Utilities and Great River Energy are planning a joint project to upgrade the power transmission system in Willmar.

The project, proposed by Dodge County Wind would generate up to 170 MW of electric energy and deliver it to the Byron substation via a 345 kV transmission line.

USA, Minnesota: The Prairie Island nuclear plant began its 30th refueling of Unit 1, during which the plant operator plans to spend $50 million on the maintenance and new equipment.

USA, Minnesota: St Peter City Council, in Minnesota, has approved the proposed upgrade of the 48-year-old infrastructure at South Front Street electrical substation.

USA, Minnesota: Minnesota Midcontinent Independent System Operator’s (MISO) has unveiled its 2016 Transmission Expansion Plan (MTEP), recommending 394 projects totalling $2.8 billion.

USA, Minnesota: Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) authorized a call for bids for an addition of a power transformer and associated improvements to the South Side Substation in New Ulm, Minnesota.

Switzerland, Zurich: ABB has received an order worth around $130 million from a U.S. electric cooperative Great River Energy to upgrade an existing ± 400 kV high-voltage direct current (HVDC) connection between Underwood, North Dakota and Buffalo, Minnesota in the U.S.

USA, Minnesota: Xcel Energy, a Minneapolis-based utility company, has embarked on a project to replace a turbine and step-up transformer at Prairie Island nuclear plant as part of the utility’s $68 million upgrades to extend the life of the 1970s-era power plant.

USA, Minnesota: 3M has launched new insulation for high-temperature, oil-filled distribution transformers designed to increase transformer overload capabilities and provide size reduction opportunities.

USA, Minnesota: Jordan Transformer, LLC, a Minnesota-based provider of transformer remanufacturing, repair and rewind services hit a manufacturing milestone in the past week having built and sold its first mobile substation, manufactured from scratch in Jordan, Minnesota.

Minnesota, Nashwauk: The Essar Steel Minnesota LLC located north of Nashwauk, Minnesota, is increasing its power capacity with two new power transformers.

USA, Minnesota: Great River Energy has proposed construction of a new electrical substation in Big Sandy, Minnesota, in order to avoid future low voltage issues and maintain reliable electric service in the Big Sandy Lake area.