The 2025 Biennial Transmission Projects Report was filed with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission on November 1, 2025. Click a link below to go to the full report.
Details on rules that govern the Biennial
Transmission Projects Report are here: transrul.pdf (PDF,
size: 60 K)
Video: How to Read the Biennial Transmission Report
Grid Modernization Report
Northern States Power Company, doing business as Xcel Energy, submitted a Grid Modernization Report on November 1, 2015. Download PDF document.
Minnesota Renewable Energy Integration and Transmission Study (MRITS)
The Minnesota Renewable Energy Integration and Transmission Study (MRITS) is an engineering study of increasing the Minnesota Renewable Energy Standard to 40 percent by 2030 and to higher proportions thereafter, while maintaining system reliability. The report, which was filed November 5, 2014, is linked here:
Minnesota transmission-owning electric utilities conducted
studies to identify electric transmission system requirements
needed to meet the Renewable Energy Standards mandated in
the Next Generation Energy Act of 2007. The studies are linked
here:
The Capacity Validation Study was developed by Minnesota
transmission-owning utilities to identify impacts to the
electric transmission system in the state with the addition
of new transmission infrastructure noted in other studies.
The study is linked here:
