Why Minnesota
Need for more transmission
Siting opportunity
Challenges
Siting prohibition
Our work
Having succeeded in lifting the barrier to co-location, we are now engaging with Minnesota Coalition members and other stakeholders, including utilities, to examine opportunities for co-location of new planned transmission, including the MISO LRTP Tranche 2 projects.
The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) is in the process of updating its Utility Accommodation Policy (UAP) to comply with the 2024 law. While MnDOT, utilities, and transmission developers coordinate on highway crossings and nearby alignments, the changes to be implemented to the UAP should clarify the process by which the parties can work together to utilize highway rights-of-way for transmission co-location.