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GREAT RIVER ENERGY ADVOCATES FOR COOPERATIVES WITH NEW POWER LINES ON THE
HORIZON

June 22, 2022 June 22, 2022

The region’s grid operator is soon expected to approve the first phase of
high-voltage power line projects in their multi-phase Long-Range Transmission
Plan.

The Midcontinent Independent System Operator’s (MISO) plan calls for $10 billion
and more in transmission investment across the 15-state region in the next
decade, including several projects in Minnesota.

The addition of low-cost renewable energy — along with the retirement of power
plants, electrification and the increasing need for resilience to more extreme
weather — is spurring the need for these power grid upgrades to maintain
reliability. Utilities across the region are significantly increasing the amount
of low-cost renewable energy they provide to their customers. Great River Energy
alone will nearly triple the amount of renewable energy, primarily wind energy,
in its portfolio by 2025.

Great River Energy is working closely with MISO throughout its planning process,
providing leadership and advocating for the power line projects that are in the
best interest of the cooperative’s member-owners.

> “Great River Energy supports the need for more regional transmission to
> facilitate the transition that is taking place in our region’s energy mix and
> address the challenges we face with extreme weather. We know new transmission
> is needed at the regional level and we have been actively advocating for the
> projects that are best for reliability, affordability and fairness for our
> members.”
> 
> Priti Patel, vice president and chief transmission officer at Great River
> Energy

Aubrey Johnson, MISO’s vice president of system planning and competitive
transmission, spoke to transmission employees at Great River Energy on May 25
about the upcoming electric grid expansion.

“We are about to work on the largest package of transmission projects in the
history of our country,” said Johnson.

Johnson said a majority of the projects are planned using existing rights of
way, on land that is already being used for power lines. Final decisions have
not yet been made regarding the projects that will be built, their specific
routes, or which utilities will own and construct them.

The last major grid expansion in the Upper Midwest was completed in 2017. That
expansion included more than 600 miles of high-voltage transmission lines built
jointly by the CapX2020 utilities. Those transmission lines created new pathways
for renewable energy and bolstered reliability. CapX2020, which is now operating
under the name Grid North Partners, is an organization of 10 Minnesota
transmission owners that came together in the 2000s to upgrade and expand the
region’s electric grid.

“We are expecting the next grid expansion to be six or more times the scale of
the last build-out, which included the CapX2020 lines,” said Gordon Pietsch,
Great River Energy’s director of transmission planning and compliance. “Those
transmission lines continue to deliver what they were intended to, and now we
need another expansion as our fleet of power generation sources transitions.”

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