AUGUST 30, 2017 CHRISTIAN ROSELUND The utility has the support of Vote Solar and Colorado SEIA as part of a broad coalition backing its Colorado Energy Plan. Regardless of the delusional 19th-century energy ambitions of the Trump Administration, American utilities are increasingly closing “baseload” coal and nuclear plants and abandoning new projects as they move… READ MORE

Business Elizabeth Dunbar July 11, 2017 Here, solar panels at Camp Ripley seen in April outside Little Falls, Minn. Paul Middlestaedt for MPR News file A new report from the University of Minnesota’s Energy Transition Lab shows adding energy storage is becoming a cost effective way to meet electricity demand in the state. The report… READ MORE

The Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District is going to install several solar energy panels that it said could save about $1 million over the next 25 years. The school board at its June 22 meeting approved a contract with Minneapolis-based company Ideal Energies for a “solar arrays” energy project, which are essentially several solar panels that will… READ MORE

June 2, 2017 | Energy SAINT PAUL — Minnesota generated more than 22 percent of its electricity from renewable energy sources in 2016, up from less than seven percent a decade earlier, according to a new report by the Minnesota Department of Commerce. The latest number puts the state well on pace to exceed its… READ MORE

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electric Power Monthly For the first time, monthly electricity generation from wind and solar (including utility-scale plants and small-scale systems) exceeded 10% of total electricity generation in the United States, based on March data in EIA’s Electric Power Monthly. Electricity generation from both of these energy sources has grown with… READ MORE

Jun 16, 2017, 2:00am CDT The Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal held a panel discussion recently on the topic of energy. Panel members included Andrew Moratzka, energy regulatory partner at Stoel Rives; Brent Wavra, president and director of business development at CxS Connect; Chris Psihos, president and CEO of iDEAL Energies; and Jim Berge, business development… READ MORE

Minnesota Experiences ‘Dramatic’ Solar Growth by Joseph Bebon on May 08, 2017 On a bright, sunny Minnesota spring day, with solar panels in the background, Minnesota Commerce Commissioner Mike Rothman announced that the state is enjoying dramatic growth in solar power, adding nearly as much new solar capacity in just the first three months of… READ MORE

By Alexandra Larkin, CNN Updated 1:14 PM ET, Thu April 6, 2017 Story highlights The Kentucky Coal Mining Museum is switching to solar power The museum is hoping to save money through the switch to a cheaper system (CNN)You wouldn’t expect a museum dedicated to the coal industry to run on anything other than coal… READ MORE