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Clean Grid Alliance Your go-to source for strategic, persistent & influential advocacy on behalf of renewable energy in the Midwest Peder Mewis, Regional Policy Manager West pmewis@cleangridalliance.org 1 6/12/2019 Who are we? Clean

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Clean Grid Alliance

Your go-to source for strategic, persistent & influential advocacy on behalf of renewable energy in the Midwest Peder Mewis, Regional Policy Manager – West pmewis@cleangridalliance.org

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Who are we?

Clean Grid Alliance (CGA) is a nonprofit

rganization that works

to advance renewable energy in the Midwest

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What we do

Four Main Areas of Work

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Wind & Solar help consumers, Farmers & Communities

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Consumers

Cheapest source of new

electricity

Cost of Wind: 69% lower

than 2009; Solar - 88% lower than 2009

Least cost resourcing first

Farmers

Lease payments from

developer

Drought-resistant cash

crop

Finance personal

investments Community

Wind & Solar Energy

Production Tax

80% of money to county

and 20% to city/town

Schools, roads, lower

taxes

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Minnesota Statistics

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MINNESOTA

Installed Capacity

Wind: 3,778 MW Solar: 1,094 MW Wind Projects

2,446 Turbines 101 Projects On-Line

Equivalent Homes Powered by: Wind: 1 million Solar: 152,000

Jobs

Wind: 2,223 or 27.5% Solar: 4,917 or 60.7%

In-State Electricity from:

Wind: 18% Solar: 2%

National Ranking

Wind: 7th Solar: 13th

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2019 Minnesota Legislative Session Recap

Overall General Fund Spending

– FY 2018-19 $45.5 billion; FY 2020-21 $48.4 billion; FY 2022-23 $51.3 billion

Energy policy negotiations broke down, very little was passed in 2019
Noteworthy bills

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Gov. Walz/House Clean Energy Package; Passed the House
100% Clean Energy Standard, Energy Efficiency Upgrades, Enhanced Resource Planning

– SF 1456 Clean Energy First (CGA Sponsored); Passed Senate Energy Committee

Updates utility resource planning statutes to ensure clean energy is considered first
Host community transmission planning, regional transmission planning
Local labor/local economic benefit considered in resource plans, acquisitions, and RFP’s
Strong working relationship with the Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA)

– SF 848 Wind Setbacks; Noise Complaint Process (no hearing scheduled) – Large energy users and MN Chamber of Commerce opposed clean energy initiatives – Energy Storage Planning, Pilot Project Cost Recovery, Cost/Benefit Analysis (Passed)

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Utility Scale Solar Development

Xcel Energy to add over 3,000 MW by 2030
Solar & Agriculture Conversation (Clean Energy Resource Team & Great Plains Institute)

– Three work groups: Solar and Agricultural Lands, Solar and Rural Character, and Solar and Natural Systems – Next meeting in June?

Solar Siting in Agricultural Landscapes Stakeholder Workgroup (Commerce & Dept. Ag)

– Meeting 1, Exploration of Stakeholder Perspectives – June 12th, 10:30 am – 2:30pm – Meeting 2, Apply Stakeholder Perspectives Through Siting Scenarios – June 26th, 10:30am – 3:00pm – Both meetings will take place at Ramsey County Library - Roseville, 2180 Hamline Ave. N, Roseville, MN 55113

Prime Farmland Exclusion Administrative Rule 7850.4400
No large electric power generating plant site may be permitted where the developed portion of the plant site, excluding

water storage reservoirs and cooling ponds, includes more than 0.5 acres of prime farmland per megawatt of net generating capacity, or where makeup water storage reservoir or cooling pond facilities include more than 0.5 acres of prime farmland per megawatt of net generating capacity, unless there is no feasible and prudent alternative. Economic considerations alone do not justify the use of more prime farmland. "Prime farmland" means those soils that meet the specifications of Code of Federal Regulations 1980, title 7, section 657.5, paragraph (a). These provisions do not apply to areas located within home rule charter or statutory cities; areas located within two miles of home rule charter or statutory cities of the first, second, and third class; or areas designated for orderly annexation under Minnesota Statutes, section 414.0325.

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