1.1Senator Weber moved to amend
H.F. No. 2442, the unofficial engrossment, as
1.2follows (...):
1.3Page 12, after line 25, insert:
1.4 "Sec. 6. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 216B.1691, subdivision 2g, is amended to read:
1.5 Subd. 2g.
Carbon-free standard. (a) In addition to the requirements under subdivisions
1.62a and 2f, each electric utility must generate or procure sufficient electricity generated
from
1.7a carbon-free energy technology to provide the electric utility's retail customers
in Minnesota,
1.8or the retail customers of a distribution utility to which the electric utility provides
wholesale
1.9electric service, so that the electric utility generates or procures an amount of
electricity
1.10from carbon-free energy technologies that is equivalent to at least the following
standard
1.11percentages of the electric utility's total retail electric sales to retail customers
in Minnesota
1.12by the end of the year indicated:
1.13
1.14
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(1)
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2030
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80 percent for public utilities; 60 percent for
other electric utilities
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1.15
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(2)
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2035
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90 percent for all electric utilities
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1.16
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(3)
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2040
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100 percent for all electric utilities.
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1.17(b) For purposes of this section, electricity generated from a carbon-free technology
1.18includes electricity generated by a peaking facility that uses only biodiesel fuel,
as defined
1.19in section 239.77, subdivision 1, paragraph (b), for the first 400 hours each year
in which
1.20the peaking facility uses only biodiesel fuel.
1.21EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment."
1.22Renumber the sections in sequence and correct the internal references
1.23Amend the title accordingly
1.24The motion prevailed. #did not prevail. So the amendment was #not adopted.