We know that all Minnesotans need and deserve clean, affordable energy to power our homes and communities. In 2023, the Minnesota Legislature passed the 100% Law, which created a Carbon Free Standard that requires all of Minnesota’s utilities to produce carbon-free electricity by 2040.
Republicans on the MN House Energy Committee have introduced House Bill 9 that includes regressive, dangerous provisions, including:
- Gifting undue extensions to utilities not willing to meet the 100% carbon-free law;
- Unnecessarily lifting our state’s nuclear moratorium when Minnesota would be better served by focusing on deploying existing and less expensive sources of carbon-free electricity from wind, solar, and storage. There is no solution for high-level radioactive waste and harmful impacts on environmental justice communities;
- Forcing cities to keep retired fossil fuel power plants that would prevent community redevelopment, and
- Prioritizing unproven and extremely expensive industrial carbon capture and sequestration schemes over other more cost-effective technologies that produce carbon-free electricity without risk of harmful consequences.
This is not the energy future we’re fighting for. Join us to tell your State Representative and Senator to protect our carbon-free energy standard!