Relating to energy; increasing the amount of money required to be +transferred by the public utility operating the Prairie Island nuclear generating+ plant to a renewable development account and expanding the authorized use of +money in the account to development of energy storage technologies +facilitating the development of intermittent renewable energy sources; exempting +distributed generation customers of certain small electric generation facilities +from utility standby charges; establishing a renewable energy standard and increasing the standard in stages; providing for renewable energy +credits to be certified by the public utilities commission (PUC), requiring the +department of commerce to implement a system of cost containment without +undermining the market for the credits, authoring the trading of credits with +bordering states under certain conditions, requiring commissioner implementation +rules, evaluation and annual compliance reports, imposing a penalty for +false representation or certification of the credits; increasing the +amount required to be spent by public utilities operating nuclear powered electric +generating plants on energy conservation improvements and requiring a certain +percentage of electric utility conservation spending obligations to be targeted +to reduce baseload energy use as defined by the commissioner, specifying +priorities; repealing certain provisions requiring public utilities to offer +customers certain renewable and high efficiency energy rate options and +imposing certain public utility eligible energy objectives (ra)