at the capitol: fresh energy's 2011 platform
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At the Capitol: Fresh Energy’s 2011 platform
January 11, 2011
Michael Noble Executive Director
Protecting transit funding and supporting future transitway lines
Fresh Energy is working to make sure transit receives the funding necessary to avoid drastic cuts in service or fare increases.
Transit funding
Photo: Metro Transit
Supporting development near transit stations
Fresh Energy supports tax-increment financing to help support development in areas near transit stations, such as along the Hiawatha Light Rail line, the Central Corridor, or even potential future streetcar lines.
Transit-oriented development
Photo: Metro Transit
Supporting electric vehicles
Fresh Energy will work with Xcel Energy and others to pass basic improvements to laws related to electric vehicles to encourage faster and more successful deployment and to better connect the vehicles to renewable energy.
Electric vehicles
Reforming net metering policy
Minnesota's net metering laws—the rules for selling excess electricity produced by renewable energy generators back to a utility—are the oldest in the nation and are out of step with current technology.
Net metering
Ten percent solar energy standard
Fresh Energy supports requiring utilities to generate 10 percent of their electricity from solar by 2030.
Solar energy
Offsetting coal pollution
Fresh Energy will protect current law requiring utilities building or importing 50 megawatts or more of new coal power to offset the global warming emissions from the plant that generates the power.
Coal plants
Growing renewable energy
Utilities in Minnesota must generate 25 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2025. Fresh Energy will work to prevent efforts to weaken the standard or efforts to expand excuses for utility non-compliance.
Renewable energy standard
Saving more energy
Fresh Energy will defend Minnesota's existing requirement that electric and gas utilities save 1.5 percent of energy sales annually.
Energy efficiency
Preserving the nuclear moratorium
Minnesota’s moratorium on nuclear power should not be lifted without addressing long-term issues of waste, cost, security, and safety.
Nuclear
Fresh Energy: Leading the transition to clean energy
Questions?
Michael Noble, Executive [email protected]
Jenna Hartwig Wade, Communications [email protected]