1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to energy; including certain uses of B100 fuel as a carbon-free energy 
1.3 	technology;amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 216B.1691, subdivision 
1.4 	2g, as added.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 216B.1691, subdivision 2g, as added by Laws 
1.7 	2023, chapter 7, section 10, is amended to read:
1.8 		Subd. 2g.Carbon-free standard. (a) In addition to the requirements under subdivisions 
1.9 	2a and 2f, each electric utility must generate or procure sufficient electricity generated from 
1.10 	a carbon-free energy technology to provide the electric utility's retail customers in Minnesota, 
1.11 	or the retail customers of a distribution utility to which the electric utility provides wholesale 
1.12 	electric service, so that the electric utility generates or procures an amount of electricity 
1.13 	from carbon-free energy technologies that is equivalent to at least the following standard 
1.14 	percentages of the electric utility's total retail electric sales to retail customers in Minnesota 
1.15 	by the end of the year indicated:

1.161.17	(1)
	2030
	80 percent for public utilities; 60 percent for 
other electric utilities
	
1.18	(2)
	2035
	90 percent for all electric utilities
	
1.19	(3)
	2040
	100 percent for all electric utilities.
	
1.20 	(b) For purposes of this section, electricity generated from a carbon-free technology 
1.21 	includes electricity generated by a peaking facility that uses only biodiesel fuel, as defined 
1.22 	in section 239.77, subdivision 1, paragraph (b), for the first 400 hours each year in which 
1.23 	the peaking facility uses only biodiesel fuel.

2.1 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.