HF 2601

as introduced - 93rd Legislature (2023 - 2024) Posted on 03/06/2023 11:41am

A bill for an act
relating to energy; including certain uses of B100 fuel as a carbon-free energy
technology; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 216B.1691, subdivision
2g, as added.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 216B.1691, subdivision 2g, as added by Laws
2023, chapter 7, section 10, is amended to read:

Subd. 2g.

Carbon-free standard.

new text begin (a) new text end In addition to the requirements under subdivisions
2a and 2f, each electric utility must generate or procure sufficient electricity generated from
a carbon-free energy technology to provide the electric utility's retail customers in Minnesota,
or the retail customers of a distribution utility to which the electric utility provides wholesale
electric service, so that the electric utility generates or procures an amount of electricity
from carbon-free energy technologies that is equivalent to at least the following standard
percentages of the electric utility's total retail electric sales to retail customers in Minnesota
by the end of the year indicated:

(1)	2030	80 percent for public utilities; 60 percent for other electric utilities
(2)	2035	90 percent for all electric utilities
(3)	2040	100 percent for all electric utilities.

new text begin (b) For purposes of this section, electricity generated from a carbon-free technology
includes electricity generated by a peaking facility that uses only biodiesel fuel, as defined
in section 239.77, subdivision 1, paragraph (b), for the first 400 hours each year in which
the peaking facility uses only biodiesel fuel.
new text end

new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end

new text begin This section is effective the day following final enactment.
new text end