Tell MN Regulators: We need 100% Carbon Free Energy
No Polluting Power // No False Solutions
➡️ Take Action by Wed., Sept. 17th! ⬅️
Tell the MN PUC that they must ensure that the implementation of the 100% Law lays the groundwork for an energy future in Minnesota that prioritizes the health, well-being, and resilience of our communities, not the interests and profits of monopoly utilities and polluting industries. “Carbon free” means carbon free!
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In early 2023, Minnesota passed the “100% Carbon-Free by 2040 Energy Standard” (Minn. Stat. § 216B.1691), and many in the climate community celebrated it as a crucial win on the path to reducing our state’s carbon emissions with the promise to address the ongoing and growing threat of climate change. However, the 100% Law left many critical definitions and processes undefined.
Now, the MN Public Utilities Commission (PUC) is tasked with figuring out what “technology neutral” means and answering vital questions about what the 100% Law will mean in practice—in doing so the PUC is taking comment on whether and how they should incorporate “life cycle analysis” of electric generation, essentially asking if they should make a “carbon free” standard into a much weaker “carbon neutral” standard. They are taking your comments regarding how you want them to build the new clean energy future:
- What technologies and facilities will be included, and what must be phased out entirely?
- What fuels will we use, and what must stay in the ground?
- Who will benefit from the carbon-free transition, and who will bear the costs?
Unfortunately, fossil fuel and other extractive industries see an opportunity in sowing confusion about the 100% Law. To maintain their dominance and profits in the rebuilt energy system, polluting industries are promoting a wide variety of technological “fixes” that make unproven promises about reducing carbon emissions while continuing to pollute and extract from our communities and environment. Many of these industries are simply slapping a “carbon free” sticker on business as usual and hoping the PUC will approve it.
If we want the 100% Law to live up to its promise of a clean, renewable energy future, YOU need to tell the PUC what 100% Carbon Free REALLY means to Minnesotans across the state. Otherwise, polluting and extractive industries will hijack the 100% Law to adopt climate “false solutions” that move Minnesota backward—like burning wood or garbage for energy or slapping risky and underperforming “carbon capture” equipment on aging coal plants in the name of “clean coal.”
Tell the PUC that they must ensure that the implementation of the 100% Law lays the groundwork for an energy future in Minnesota that prioritizes the health, well-being, and resilience of our communities, not the interests and profits of monopoly utilities and polluting industries.
