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PSC approves Grid Forward / Central Wisconsin CPCN with route, mitigation and monitoring conditions
Summary
The Public Service Commission approved the Grid Forward Central Wisconsin transmission CPCN, endorsing the applicants’ proposed route, rejecting a village bypass due to cost and new impacts, and imposing project-specific environmental and landowner protections.
The Public Service Commission voted Oct. 30 to issue a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the Grid Forward (Central Wisconsin) transmission project (LRTP 6), finding that the record demonstrates substantial regional reliability and economic benefits and adopting a suite of standard and project-specific protections to reduce environmental and landowner impacts.
Commissioner Hawkins opened the discussion and emphasized that Grid Forward is one of the largest transmission projects the commission has reviewed: the application includes roughly 200 miles of new 345 kV construction plus approximately 175 miles of rebuilds of lower-voltage lines and other system changes. The project is part of…
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