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North Dakota Using New Split Hearing Option on Power Line

By Bill Dubensky Nov 21, 2025 | 5:22 AM

(Photo by Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor)

 

(North Dakota Monitor) – North Dakota utility regulators have set a series of hearings on a  high voltage power line, using a recent change in state law to spread out the hearings.

The Public Service Commission  scheduled hearings on what is known as the JETx project, a transmission line between Jamestown and Ellendale.

The PSC will hold public hearings in the three counties along the proposed route, Dickey, LaMoure and Stutsman.

Before the public hearings there will be two days of technical hearings in Bismarck. Project developers will use that time to go over details of the 345 kilowatt line. Otter Tail Power Company and Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. are partnering to develop, build and co-own the 92-mile power line.

PSC Chair Randy Christmann said in some previous hearings, members of the public have waited for hours to comment on a project while listening to the technical details.

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