MN HF2553

Repeals Minnesota Statutes section 216B.246, which granted incumbent electric transmission owners the automatic right to construct, own, and maintain new high-voltage transmission lines (100 kilovolts or more) that connect to their existing facilities

Eliminates the requirement that incumbent transmission owners must notify the Public Utilities Commission within 60 days of federal approval and file for a certificate of need within 12 months

Removes the current law that applies to public utilities, generation and transmission cooperative electric associations, municipal power agencies, power districts, municipal utilities, and transmission companies

Opens federally-approved transmission line projects to potential competition by removing the statutory preference for incumbent owners to build new lines connecting to their systems