Community Power @MplsEnergyOpts

Born out of the 2013 Minneapolis Energy Options campaign, dedicated to empowering MN cities and towns to create clean, local, affordable, reliable energy. communitypowermn.org Minneapolis, MN Joined September 2012

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Community Power @MplsEnergyOpts

a year ago

At the Sabathani hearing on Xcel Energy's 15 year "preferred plan." Multiple speakers speak in opposition to Xcel's rising costs, nuclear power plant extensions, trash burners, and slow pace / blocking solar, slow-walking demand response & efficiency.

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CUB Minnesota @CUB_MN

a year ago

""Xcel's failure to manage its contractors fell far below what is expected of a reasonable and prudent nuclear plant operator," read a regulatory filing Assistant Attorney General Peter Scholtz signed." via @StarTribune

The Minnesota Star Tribune @StarTribune

a year ago

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Community Power @MplsEnergyOpts

a year ago

"If Xcel is not ready to move quickly on Minnesota's priorities, perhaps it is time to transition to a publicly-owned utility" - speaker at Sabathani public hearing on Xcel's 15 year energy plan. @SahanJournal @MPRnews @StribBiz

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Community Power @MplsEnergyOpts

a year ago

🧐🧐🧐Shared from folks in Indiana who have Centerpoint Energy...

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Community Power @MplsEnergyOpts

2 years ago

In case you missed it. Xcel is taking and creating heat, joining its utility peers in California & Hawaii: "More than 150 insurance companies sue Xcel, citing negligence over start of Marshall fire [Colorado’s costliest and most destructive fire]" coloradosun.com/2023/07/11/xce…

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John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 @johnffarrell

2 years ago

The proposal is one of many moves by the utility to curtail competition from non-utility energy producers, from an initial proposal to cap the program at 20 megawatts per year to slowing interconnection.

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John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 @johnffarrell

2 years ago

It will also have a significant financial impact on many public entities, as covered by @walkerorenstein - startribune.com/minnesota-comm…

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Community Power @MplsEnergyOpts

2 years ago

When you're not the one who will get blow back - you can #SayAnything. Xcel Energy won't get blowback from today's decision b/c it just suggested a thing. The State of MN approved it as legal. Colleagues don't let colleagues breach contracts. Xcel #ResponsibleWhenRequired.

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Community Power @MplsEnergyOpts

2 years ago

Distressingly, we must adjust the third piece of this story from what we hoped would be a clear-eyed view of what was going on today from the Commission. See edits below. It went something like this: #MNPUC

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John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 @johnffarrell

2 years ago

When using the value of solar price as the comparative, the program cost Xcel has widely shared is inflated nearly 7 times more than the actual difference between the community solar compensation rate and the value of solar.

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Community Power @MplsEnergyOpts

2 years ago

Commissioners and policymakers should practice using more "I statements" for example: "I find this argument unpersuasive." <--that simply means that it's personally not making sense to you. Not that it doesn't make sense in fact and evidence. Those are two very different. #MNPUC

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Community Power @MplsEnergyOpts

2 years ago

Commissioner describes Xcel's 20% rate increase as akin to the community solar program costs... #MNPUC

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Community Power @MplsEnergyOpts

2 years ago

Who is watching this MPUC meeting? Commissioner describes a participant behavior as "offensive." Meanwhile multiple participants being treated with scorn, interruptions, and harsh tones. Favoritism and deference on display. auditor.leg.state.mn.us/ped/2020/puc20…

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Community Power @MplsEnergyOpts

2 years ago

The folks who defended Xcel's new acquisition of an overpriced gas plant in are now a star witness in defending Xcel claw back of commitments, savings, and solar energy credits from MN households #MNPUC

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Community Power @MplsEnergyOpts

2 years ago

"So why DO people show up w/ signs? Why do people use humor & social media & marches & direct actions?" ...lobbyists who are welcomed into decision-making spaces ask Because they are not allowed to speak, attend, or be taken seriously or offered the deference the lobbyists are.

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Community Power @MplsEnergyOpts

2 years ago

PUC asking OAG and Fresh Energy about detailed solar contracts or history without asking folks in the room who actually know the details....

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Community Power @MplsEnergyOpts

2 years ago

Commissioner (in jest): "I know we sometimes think we're smarter than the people here before us" ..........

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Community Power @MplsEnergyOpts

2 years ago

MNPUC just turned into a brief Q&A with their hype man from #FreshEnergy. If you attend most PUC hearings, it's clear who the PUC respects, gives space to, and agrees with from the jump. The PUC audit of 2020 rings true still - who is welcome to speak? auditor.leg.state.mn.us/ped/2020/puc20…

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John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 @johnffarrell

2 years ago

It's worth noting that at least one commissioner has continued to repeat this inflated cost metric as justification for his interest in retroactively revising community solar contracts. #mnpuc

John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 @johnffarrell

2 years ago

It's worth noting that at least one commissioner has continued to repeat this inflated cost metric as justification for his interest in retroactively revising community solar contracts. #mnpuc

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Amelia Cerling Hennes @amelia_maude

2 years ago

Packed room today at the @MN_PUC as the commission considers Xcel’s proposal to change the rate on legacy community solar gardens. ☀️☀️Proud to be here today supporting MN clean energy businesses & our state’s community solar garden program!