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NUCLEAR WASTE STORAGE PAYMENT INCREASE HF 1075 Rep. Andrew Falk (DFL - Murdock) No Senate companion bill To increase the amount Xcel pays into the Renewable Development Fund (RDF) each year from $500,000 to$3 million per Prairie Island cask and from $350,000 to $3 million per Monticello cask. RES CREDIT FOR GEOTHERMAL ENERGY SAVINGS HF 1079 Rep. John Benson (DFL - Minnetonka) No Senate companion bill To allow utilities to apply net electrical consumption reductions from geothermal heating and cooling systems toward their Renewable Energy Standard requirements. DISTRIBUTED GENERATION STUDY HF 1093 Rep. Pat Garofalo (R- Farmington) SF 972 Sen.Julie Rosen (R- Fairmont) To require the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission to open a public docket for the purpose of analyzing the costs and benefits in Minnesota of distributed solar generation and strategies to maximize the benefits and minimize the costs.The analysis of distributed solar generation must include,without limitation, the following: (1) its use to address transmission constraints and strategies to optimize that use; (2) its affect on grid reliability and strategies to improve that affect; (3) cost-effective strategies for deployment; (4) appropriate sizing of solar projects and economies of scale; (5) the cost-effectiveness of competing solar technologies and trends for that cost-effectiveness; (6) comprehensive assessments of its direct and indirect costs and benefits; (7) comparison of its costs and benefits to the cost and benefits of other strategies to meet the state's electric generation needs; and (8) the effect of a comparable expenditure on energy conservation on both the demand and supply side. MMUA testified in favor of this bill before the Senate Energy and Environment Committee as an alternative to passing the omnibus energy bill. 84