Southwest Minnesota Transmission Project: Lakefield Junction to Fox Lake

This project is the first of several transmission lines Xcel Energy will be building in southwestern Minnesota and eastern South Dakota to support the development of additional wind power and to strength electric service reliability in the region. The project includes the construction of a new 25-mile 161-kilovolt transmission line in Jackson and Martin counties in Minnesota, connecting the Lakefield Junction Substation near Lakefield and the Fox Lake Substation near Sherburn.

Status

Our route permit application was approved by the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board (MEQB) on September 16, 2004. The Environmental Assessment and other information on the project can be found on the MEQB Web site at http://www.eqb.state.mn.us/Docket.html?Id=3843.

Final design of the line is underway and we are acquiring easements from landowners along the route. Construction is slated to begin Fall 2005. A more detailed schedule will be posted at a later date.

Documents

Fact sheets, maps and other materials are available below, coded according to when they were filed or released. Please note: several of these are large files, as denoted by the file sizes in megabytes rather than kilobytes, with correspondingly longer download times. We do not recommend downloading those files without a high-speed Internet connection. If necessary, we will provide hard copies on request.