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Campaign updates, press releases, and the record as it develops.
Richland County landowners meet Thursday on the proposed 765 kV BECI line
July 16 at the Phoenix Center: what the BECI segment could mean for properties and communities — and the short window for public input.
Paid even if it’s never built: BECI’s developers lock in their federal rate incentives
Before any route exists, FERC granted the developers cost-recovery incentives — including repayment even if the line is abandoned. Plus: an hour of plain talk on WRCO.
What lives in the path: mapping the wildlife a 765 kV line would cross
A new map shows what the proposed corridor would cross — a Mississippi flyway, cold-water streams, and federally protected wildlife — at a coarse, public scale.
On a Driftless ridge, experts walked the ground a 765 kV line would cross
Experts and neighbors walked the proposed corridor at a Driftless field day — and what the ground itself shows about the 765 kV line.
Opting out of unneeded utility expansion
Rob Danielson on the planning assumptions behind the 765 kV plan — and the buried HVDC alternative.
An energy group came to the Driftless — and landed on our questions
An MREA talk in Westby on rising bills, data centers, and what the 765 line is really for.
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