The planned 625-MW gas-fired Nemadji Trail Energy Center encountered another hitch after the Superior City Council refused to move ahead on zoning changes necessary for breaking ground.

Two of the developers behind the embattled Cardinal-Hickory Creek transmission line have appealed to lift an injunction on the last mile of the project that will intersect a wildlife refuge in Wisconsin and Iowa.

In what’s beginning to feel like déjà vu, Cardinal Hickory Creek’s last unconstructed mile is again subject to a preliminary injunction.

Three conservation groups filed a lawsuit against federal agencies for consenting to permits and a land exchange to allow the Cardinal-Hickory Creek 345-kV line to carve a path through a wildlife refuge in Wisconsin.

FERC OKd Dairyland Power Coop’s requested rate incentives for the Wilmarth-North Rochester-Tremval project, a 169-mile line spanning Minnesota and Wisconsin.

MISO has chosen Ameren Transmission Co. of Illinois and Dairyland Power Cooperative to build the third and fourth competitive transmission projects emerging from its long-range transmission plan.

The timeline for building the Nemadji Trail Energy Center has been pushed into next year as clean energy groups continue to challenge the need for the planned gas plant.

"Permitting reform" might be supported by a wide array of interests, but the details highlight major divides among the two political parties in Congress.

The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association urged Congress to streamline permitting of transmission, backing a bill to limit NEPA reviews to two years.

Conservation groups have asked Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources to revoke permits for the embattled Cardinal-Hickory Creek transmission line.