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Minnesota’s Better Energy Future
Mike Bull, Assistant Commissioner, Renewable Energy
The Next Generation Energy Initiative
Minnesota’s Better Energy FutureOverview
• Energy Vision & Policies
• Record of Progressive Accomplishment
• The Next Generation Energy Initiative
• Concluding thoughts
Minnesota’s Better Energy Future
Energy Policy Vision
"We cannot, as a strategic plan for the future, just . . . experience the cost crisis,
the environmental impacts, and the supply questions that flow from just embracing the status quo. We need a different and better energy future.”
--from November 29, 2005 address to University of Minnesota’s IREERenewable Energy Symposium
Minnesota’s Better Energy Future
Energy Policy Vision• To provide Minnesotans with energy
resources that are:
– Reliable– Low cost– Environmentally superior– Local economic benefits
Minnesota’s Better Energy Future
Renewable Energy Vision
To have 25% of all the energy we use come from renewable resources by 2025
– State strategic goal– Early endorser of the
National 25x’25 initiative– Led MGA to endorse
National Initiative
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A Record of Progressive Accomplishment
• Quadrupled the number of E85 stations (>300)
• Protected MN’s energy conservation programs
• Led regulatory efforts to clean up three Metro-area coal plants
• Implemented the nation’s first biodiesel mandate• Proposed & enacted 20% ethanol legislation• Implemented the nation’s most aggressive
community wind goal (800 MW by 2010)• Proposed & enacted nation-leading mercury
emissions reduction legislation
Minnesota’s Better Energy Future
Why the NextGen Energy Initiative?
To reduce the environmental and climate impacts of our energy choices
To further unhinge our state’s economy from unstable fuel supplies
To benefit and stabilize Minnesota’s rural economies
To provide alternatives to Minnesota consumers
Minnesota’s Better Energy Future Next Generation Energy
Initiative
Four Components:
• Renewable Electricity
• BioEnergy
• Energy Efficiency
• Climate Change
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Renewable Electricity
• 25% by 2025 for most utilities 7% by 2010; 12% by 2012; 17% by 2016
• 30% by 2020 for Xcel Energy 25% wind energy by 2020
• Protections for Minnesota ratepayers
• Encourages local ownership of energy production
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Wind Integration StudyKey findings: • Up to 25% wind can be reliably accommodated
by the electric power system (~6000 MW)• The total integration operating cost less than
$4.50 per MWh of wind generation
Key assumptions include:• A geographically diverse wind scenario• The large MISO energy market• Sufficient transmission
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NextGen BioEnergy
• $100 million over 10 years to convert biomass to biofuels & bio-gas
• Agricultural residues, wood, perennial grasses, other feedstock
• E85 Everywhere grants• Goal of 1800 E85 retail
pumps
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Energy Efficiency
Transition from conservation spending program to energy savings program
• Double current electricity savings & increase natural gas savings by 50%
1000 Energy Star buildings by 2010
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Climate Change
• Require new fossil fuel generation to offset its greenhouse gas emissions
• Center for Climate Strategies
• Track & reduce greenhouse gas emissions from state operations
• Work with Midwestern Governors to develop a regional approach
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Concluding Thoughts“Peter Drucker once said “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” … The Next Generation Energy Initiative provides the pathway to a better energy future.”
--from December 12 address to
the Midwest Ag-Energy Summit
Minnesota’s Better Energy Future
What will it take?
Minnesota’s Better Energy Future
Thank you!
Contact information:
Mike Bull, Ass’t Comm’r for Renewable EnergyMinnesota Department of Commerce85 7th Place East, Suite 500St. Paul, MN 55101(651) [email protected]