Includes Blue Earth, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston, Le Sueur, Mower, Nicollet, Olmsted, Rice, Sibley, Steele, Wabasha, Waseca, and Winona counties.

Detailed Southeast Planning Zone Map (PDF)

Issues specific to this zone

Biennial Transmission Planning Webcasts

Every two years, Minnesota utilities host webcasts to inform the public about electric transmission needs in the state. Below are links to the presentation delivered on electric transmission planning in Minnesota and electric transmission projects in the Southeast Zone. The presentation was delivered via webcast in September 2009.

Mankato Area Transmission

• Improvements needed for local load serving
• Multiple options under study

Red Wing-Alma Area Transmission

• Improvements needed for local load serving
• Study need is high priority

Generation

• A number of small to medium size proposed projects
• Potential for transmission development associated with the proposals

Other

• Officials from the Rochester Public Utilities will discuss a study of the Rochester-area transmission system
• Dairyland Power Cooperative representatives will present information on various 69-kV transmission projects

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