Annie Levenson-Falk with the Legislative Energy Commission presents about the 2025 Minnesota Energy Action Plan at four CERTs regional events to engage people about the state's energy future. Learn more at http://www.cleanenergyresourceteams.org/blog/weigh-minnesota-2025-energy-action-plan.

1. 2025 Minnesota Energy
Action Plan Project

2. What will the project do?
• Baseline metrics that depict the state’s energy
landscape
• Action plan to significantly advance high-potential
energy strategies and/or technologies
• Outcome indicators to track and communicate
progress as action plan is implemented
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3. Project team members
U.S. Department of Energy
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
State Energy Program
Energy Systems
Consulting Services, LLC
Clean Energy
Resource Teams
Minnesota Pollution
Control Agency
Additional partners
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4. 1. Mobility, transportation and fuels
2. Energy supply and grid modernization
3. Efficient buildings and thermal energy
4. Industry and agriculture
5. Energy and climate planning and action
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5. Criteria
for prioritizing strategies
1. Moves MN toward state energy, climate, other air
quality and environmental justice goals
2. 2025 MN Energy Action Plan Project has the potential
to move the needle on a particular strategy in the
context of related projects in MN
3. Likely benefits relative to costs
4. Stakeholders are committed to advancing the strategy
and have ability to leverage additional resources
5. Has potential to provide benefits across sectors
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6. Minnesota’s Energy Landscape
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7. Minnesota’s Energy Landscape
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8. MINNESOTA’S
ENERGY POLICIES
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
• Conservation policy
• Building energy codes/standards
RENEWABLE ENERGY
• Renewable energy goal
• Renewable electricity standard
• Solar electricity goal and standard
• Renewable fuel standards
CLIMATE
• Fossil fuel reduction goal
• Greenhouse gas emissions goal
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9. Source: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. “Estimated Minnesota Energy Use in 2012.”
https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/commodities/energy
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Conservation
• Energy Conservation
Improvement: Annually
conserve 1.5% of retail
electricity and 1% of
natural gas sales (all
utilities)
Building energy
codes/standards
• Aggressive Sustainable
Building (SB 2030) Program
required for buildings that
receive state bonding
• Executive order: 20%
reduction in energy use in
public buildings
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10. ENERGY EFFICIENCY
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2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Trillion Btu Natural Gas Saved Electricity Saved
Source: Minnesota Department of Commerce. “A Report on the Impacts of the 2010-2014 Shared Savings Demand-Side Management (DSM)
Financial Incentive on Investor-Owned Utility Conservation Achievements and Customer Costs.” Docket No. E,G999/CI-08-133.
https://www.edockets.state.mn.us/EFiling/edockets/searchDocuments.do?method=showPoup&documentId={9DF59F7B-19D8-4230-8475-
4A14EE738326}&documentTitle=20157-112050-01
OUTCOMES | ENERGY SAVED THROUGH CIP
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11. RENEWABLE ENERGY
Standards:
• 25% of electricity from
renewable sources by 2025
(statewide)
• 1.5% from solar by 2020
(investor-owned utilities)
Goals:
• 10% of electricity from solar by
2030 (statewide)
• 25% of total energy from
renewable sources by 2025
(statewide)
Source: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. “Estimated Minnesota Energy Use in 2012.”
https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/commodities/energy
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12. RENEWABLE ENERGY
Mandates:
• Biofuel content: 10% ethanol
or other approved biofuel in
all gasoline
• Biodiesel content: 20%
biodiesel in all diesel fuel by
2018
Goals:
• Petroleum replacement: 30%
renewable fuels in total
gasoline by 2025
Source: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. “Estimated Minnesota Energy Use in 2012.”
https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/commodities/energy
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13. RENEWABLE ENERGY
Coal
50%
Natural gas
7%
Nuclear
22%
Hydro
1%
Wind
16%
Biomass
3%
Other
1%
OUTCOMES | MN’S ELECTRICITY GENERATION 2014
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14. CLIMATE
• Reduce per capita fossil
fuel use for energy by
15% by 2015
• Reduce total
greenhouse gas
emissions below 2005
levels by
• 15% by 2015
• 30% by 2025
• 80% by 2050
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration. “Table CT3. Total End-Use Energy Consumption Estimates, 1960-2012,
Minnesota”. http://www.eia.gov/state/seds/data.cfm?incfile=/state/seds/sep_use/tx/use_tx_MN.html&sid=MN
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100
150
200
250
300
350
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
MMBtu/person Minnesota United States
14.7% reduction
OUTCOMES | FOSSIL FUEL USE PER CAPITA
Source: Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
OUTCOMES | FORECASTED EMISSIONS
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15. Questions?