Title: Power Plant Sites & Transmission Line Routes
Alternate Title:
Description: Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC)
Subject: Energy
Creation Date: 9/11/2008 2:17:03 PM
Modification Date: 7/11/2025 8:33:34 AM
Agency Name: Public Utilities Commission (PUC), Minnesota
Agency URL: https://mn.gov/puc/
Agency Description:
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) regulates three service industries in Minnesota, electricity, natural gas, and telephone. It is the commission's responsibility to ensure that vendors of these services provide safe, adequate, and reliable service at fair, reasonable rates.
Agency Phone: 651-296-0406
800-657-3782
Agency Fax: 651-297-7073
Agency URL: https://mn.gov/puc/
Agency Address:
121 7th Place East, Suite 350
St. Paul
MN 55101-2147
Unit Name: Email
Unit URL:
Unit Description:
Unit Phone: Unit Fax: Contact person(s): publicadvisor.puc@state.mn.us
Unit URL:
Audience: Hold
Application URL:
Renewal URL:
Versa URL:
Requirements:
Review Power Plants
Review Process
The Commission utilizes two methods for reviewing site permit applications for power plants: the Standard Review Process and the Major Review Process. The chosen review process is determined by the size of the proposed power plant project as follows:
The Power Plant Permitting Process Explained
Standard review process
Major review process
Rules: 7850
Statutes: 216E
Forms:
Fees:
Necessary and reasonable costs incurred in acting on the permit application and carrying out the statutory requirements.
Period of Issuance:
Indefinite; the life of the high-voltage line.
Length of Determination:
Permit must be issued within one year of accepting the application, with a possible 90 day extension for just cause.
Other Info:
Activity: High Voltage Transmission Lines
License Detail URL:
Power Plants
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