A high-voltage transmission line project has received its final approval from Wisconsin’s Public Service Commission. The PSC voted in favor of issuing a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity at a meeting on Thursday. That move clears another hurdle for the Cardinal-Hickory Creek transmission line project. Federal regulators and officials in Iowa still have to approve the proposal. The roughly 100-mile transmission line would run from Dubuque to Dane County. The $500 million project is being proposed by a group including American Transmission Company, ITC Midwest and Dairyland Power Cooperative. Their goal is to have the line in service by 2023. Multiple organizations and citizens in the area spoke out against the project at a series of public hearings.
