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LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ENERGY IMPROVEMENTS PROGRAM EXPANSION <br /> HF 1147 Rep. Raymond Dehn (DFL- Minneapolis) <br /> SF 1121 Sen. Scott Dibble (DFL- Minneapolis) <br /> To make the state's Energy Improvements Program for Local Governments available for <br /> financing renewable energy feasibility studies. Currently only energy efficiency <br /> improvement projects are eligible for financing. <br /> This program requires governments to place liens on properties in order to collect payments <br /> from property taxes if the property owner defaults. After the law passed that created the <br /> program, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac issued guidance to banks stating that the banks should <br /> not give mortgages in places where such type of lien might be taken on mortgaged properties. <br /> Because of this, the program has not been utilized by local governments, but it remains in <br /> statute. <br /> NET METERING AND FEED-IN TARIFF <br /> HF 1170 Rep.Andrew Falk(DFL- Murdock) <br /> No Senate companion bill <br /> To increase the maximum size of net-metering facilities to 105kW and require utilities to <br /> pay net-metering customers a premium on top of the retail rate that comes from a <br /> surcharge on customers who elect to purchase electricity from renewable resources. <br /> DISTRIBUTED GENERATION INTERCONNECTION TARIFF CHANGES <br /> HF 1174 Rep.Andrew Falk(DFL- Murdock) <br /> SF 1362 Sen.John Marty (DFL - Roseville) <br /> To require the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission to establish generic standards for <br /> utility tariffs for the interconnection and parallel operation of distributed generation <br /> projects, including cogeneration projects interconnected with investor-owned utilities' <br /> distributions systems. <br /> The tariff standards would have to: <br /> • establish a procedure whereby,when the size of a distributed generation resource <br /> causes power to flow intermittently into transmission facilities operated by the <br /> Midwest Independent Systems Operator (MISO), a local load-serving utility may <br /> coordinate with MISO to conduct the interconnection transmission system analysis <br /> and transmission system usage reservations,as needed; <br /> • include payments for ancillary services and other system benefits provided by a <br /> distributed generation resource; <br /> • reflect the savings that accrue to the public utility's distribution system resulting <br /> from avoided demand charges and avoided transmission and transmission <br /> infrastructure costs; and <br /> 86 <br />