fusclimate Mailing List: Solar Energy Legislation

[Shannon Williams (sjc]

Please see the explanation below on the solar energy legislation that was
passed.

 

Shannon Williams

Social Justice Coordinator

First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis

 

From: Minnesota Environmental Partnership
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Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 5:13 PM
To: sjc [at] firstunitarian.org
Subject: Victory on Solar Energy

 

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Victory on Solar Energy 

Dear Shannon,

The 2013 Legislature passed solar energy legislation that will spur growth
in Minnesota's solar industry, create good jobs, and make solar energy
cheaper and more accessible to customers.


High Points:

The law creates a Solar Energy Standard that requires select electric
utilities - including Xcel - to get 1.5 percent of electricity from solar by
2020, and establishes a goal of 10 percent solar energy by 2030.



Good start: 

While our work is far from over -- we must intensify efforts to increase
Minnesota's Renewable Energy Standard and strengthen the Solar Energy
Standard -- this is a good first step toward Governor Dayton's call for a
clean energy future in Minnesota. 

  

Give thanks where thanks are due: 

Thank Governor Dayton, the lead authors of the bill, and legislative leaders
for their leadership on clean energy, and urge them to keep up the fight for
a clean energy future in Minnesota.

Deadline for responding: Please take action by Friday, May 24th.

 <http://mnaction.org/r.asp?aacwc=27444897114752416111921524102> Act Now

To review the language passed by the 2013 Legislature, click here
<https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF0729&session=ls88&versio
n=latest&session_number=0&session_year=2013> .


The following organizations are participating in this action alert: 

    Alliance for Sustainability
    Audubon Minnesota
    Envision Minnesota
    Fresh Energy
    Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness
    Friends of the Mississippi River
    Izaak Walton League of America--Minnesota Division
    Land Stewardship Project
    Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy
    Minnesota Conservation Federation
    Minnesota Environmental Partnership
    Minnesota Project
    Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness
    Parks & Trails Council of MN



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