1.1 A bill for an act
1.2 relating to energy; repealing
the 100 percent carbon free by 2040 standard; repealing
1.3 Minnesota Statutes 2024,
section 216B.1691, subdivision 2g.
1.4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE
LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.5 Section 1. REPEALER.
1.6 Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 216B.1691, subdivision 2g,
is repealed.
APPENDIX
Repealed Minnesota Statutes:
26-07710
216B.1691 RENEWABLE ENERGY OBJECTIVES.Subd. 2g.Carbon-free standard.
In addition to the requirements
under subdivisions 2a and 2f, each electric utility must generate or procure
sufficient electricity generated from a carbon-free energy technology to
provide the electric utility's retail customers in Minnesota, or the retail
customers of a distribution utility to which the electric utility provides
wholesale electric service, so that the electric utility generates or procures
an amount of electricity from carbon-free energy technologies that is
equivalent to at least the following standard percentages of the electric
utility's total retail electric sales to retail customers in Minnesota by the
end of the year indicated:
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(1)
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2030
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80 percent for public utilities;
60 percent for other electric utilities
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(2)
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2035
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90 percent for all electric
utilities
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(3)
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2040
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100 percent for all electric
utilities.
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