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Getting to Green: Minnesota's energy future

A banner reads: Getting to green: Minnesota's energy future

Minnesota officials have set an ambitious goal for the state to be carbon-neutral by 2050.

Getting there will require generating our electricity from clean sources such as wind and solar, and electrifying vehicles, homes, office buildings, factories and farms that currently rely on fossil fuels.

Getting to Green: Minnesota’s energy future is a MPR News series digging deep into stories of the clean energy transition — and the opportunities and obstacles to reach that milestone.

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Latest Catan board game adds new challenge: produce power without over-polluting

Latest Catan board game adds new challenge: produce power without over-polluting

As players build settlements, they can choose renewable energy or fossil fuels. The company behind Catan: New Energies hopes the abstract game can spark real conversations about energy use.
by Kirsti Marohn

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How biochar — the ‘Swiss Army knife of climate tools’ — is growing in Minnesota

How biochar — the ‘Swiss Army knife of climate tools’ — is growing in Minnesota

Minnesota is emerging as a leader in the research and manufacturing of biochar, a substance that can combat climate change by locking away carbon for centuries. It can also provide other environmental benefits such as filtering water and improving soil.
by Dan Kraker

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What’s carbon-free? Utility regulators to decide what qualifies under state’s clean energy law

What’s carbon-free? Utility regulators to decide what qualifies under state’s clean energy law

When state lawmakers approved a bill last year requiring utilities to produce all their electricity from carbon-free sources by 2040, they didn’t specify what qualifies as carbon-free. Now the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission will decide. That in turn could shape the future of technologies such as biomass and carbon capture in Minnesota.
by Dan Kraker

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The heat is on: Indigenous-led nonprofit seeks to lower heating expenses with solar thermal

The heat is on: Indigenous-led nonprofit seeks to lower heating expenses with solar thermal

Since 2018, an Indigenous nonprofit near the White Earth Nation in northwestern Minnesota has been installing solar thermal panels to cut home heating costs in impoverished communities.
by Mathew Holding Eagle III

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In the Twin Cities, mapping the warming urban heat island to prepare for an even hotter future

In the Twin Cities, mapping the warming urban heat island to prepare for an even hotter future

This summer, volunteers collected detailed temperature and humidity data across Hennepin and Ramsey counties. It’s part of an effort to map the urban heat island in the Twin Cities to help plan for climate change-fueled extreme heat.
by Dan Kraker

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Why the U.S. government is spending $7 billion on solar for low-income homes

Why the U.S. government is spending $7 billion on solar for low-income homes

Solar energy can reduce climate pollution and electric bills. The U.S. government will soon start giving out $7 billion in grants for solar programs for low-income homes, like this program with nonprofit GRID Alternatives.
by Julia Simon

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Sheepish solar symbiosis: Two very different industries work together on the green energy transition

Sheepish solar symbiosis: Two very different industries work together on the green energy transition

New players are entering the field to help with the green energy transition by literally chowing down on the fields. It’s through the growing collaboration between solar developers and sheep farmers. 
by Hannah Yang

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Minnesota e-bike rebates: Window set to reopen

Minnesota e-bike rebates: Window set to reopen

Three weeks after high demand crashed its wobbly e-bike application website, the Minnesota Department of Revenue is getting back in the saddle. The agency said it will reopen its e-bike rebate application window at 11 a.m. on July 2.
by MPR News Staff

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