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HF 2556 Rep.Wagenius (DFL-Minneapolis) No Senate companion bill. HF 2681 Rep.Long(DFL-Minneapolis) To appropriate funds for the budgets of the Department No Senate companion bill. of Commerce and the Public Utilities Commission; to To require all electric and gas utilities to provide establish a program making grants to school districts customer identifiable energy usage data in a format for the purchase and installation of solar facilities on or comprehensible to the typical customer in as close to adjacent to school buildings. real time as practicable to the customer or a third-par- ty authorized by the customer; to require utilities to HF 2566 Rep.Lippert (DFL-Northfield) provide non-customer-identifiable energy usage data SF 2763 Sen. Dibble (DFL-Minneapolis) to anyone requesting it. (See also HF 1683/SF No. To require the Department of Commerce to contract for 2054.) a study of the potential costs and benefits of developing a "green bank"in Minnesota to finance renewable energy HF 2715 Rep. Hornstein (DFL-Minneapolis) and energy efficiency projects. SF 2764 Sen. Eaton (DFL-Brooklyn Center) To require the Department of Commerce to develop HF 2592 Rep. Bierman(DFL-Apple Valley) strategies to significantly accelerate GHG reduction. No Senate companion bill. (See also HF 2625.) To authorize school boards to own, operate, sell power from and receive payment for renewable energy genera- SF 2711 Sen. Hayden (DFL-Minneapolis) tion systems that use hydro, solar, geothermal or the use No House companion bill. of trees or other vegetation. Currently, they are limited To extend and increase the RES setting it in 2035 at 85 to wind. percent for Xcel and 80 percent for other IOUs, G&Ts and municipal power agencies; to institute a new"Car- HF 2618 Rep. Stephenson(DFL-Coon Rapids) bon-free Standard" of 100 percent for most utilities by SF 2664 Sen. Hoffman(DFL-St. Paul) 2050 and 2045 for Xcel. (See also HF 700/SF No. 850.) To appropriate $500,000 for the purpose of requiring the Department of Education to issue a grant to a school HF 2740 Rep. Fischer(DFL-Maplewood) district to purchase an electric school bus. SF 2757 Sen. Matthews (R-Milaca) To appropriate $800,000 for the PCA to establish a HF 2625 Rep. Long(DFL-Minneapolis) statewide program to reduce chloride, of which $200,000 SF 2697 Sen. Dibble (DFL-Minneapolis) will be used to make grants to optimize existing water To allow Xcel customers to subscribe to solar gardens in softening units or upgrade to low-salt use systems. distant counties if the facility is at least 100 feet from the nearest residential property and if at least 10 per- SF 2729 Sen. Senjem(R-Rochester) cent of the generating capacity is reserved for residen- To establish characteristics that allow a solar facility tial subscribers; to establish a solar garden program for owner to claim the site is a bee and apiary solar farm, LIHEAP recipients;and to require the Department of conservation solar farm or conservation pasture solar Commerce to develop strategies to significantly acceler- farm. ate greenhouse gas reduction. HF 2748 Rep.Acomb (DFL-Minnetonka) SF 2622 Sen. Koran (R-North Branch) No Senate companion bill. No House companion bill. To establish a state bond funded loan program allowing To require the Office of Broadband Development to school districts to purchase and install solar systems. create a"how-to guide"to assist Border-to-Border grant applicants in undertaking and broadband projects and HF 2816 Rep.Anderson(R-Starbuck) deployment activities. No Senate companion bill. To prohibit construction or expansion of community HF 2793 Rep. Sanstede (DFL-Hibbing) solar gardens outside the Twin Cities metro until the SF 2648 Sen. Tomassoni (DFL-Chisolm) Department of Commerce submits a study report to To allow a municipal utility commission to lease, sell or the Legislature on how solar gardens affect utility rate discontinue operation of its utility, in whole or in part, payers and communities where solar garden facilities without a vote of the electorate so long as the city council are located. approves. 14 244