Frank Jossi
Minnesota Correspondent, Midwest Energy News at Energy News Network
Journalist, editor, working on green economy, job search issues, etc.
Articles
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Jan 31, 2025 |
energynews.us | Frank Jossi
A state-funded climate financing authority will begin ramping up lending in Minnesota this year after hiring its first executive director in October. The Minnesota Climate Innovation Finance Authority, established by state legislators as part of a flurry of climate and clean energy bills in 2023, is charged with annually lending at least $25 million to stimulate clean energy development and greenhouse gas emissions reduction projects.
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Jan 9, 2025 |
energynews.us | Frank Jossi
A long-running local government collaboration in southwestern Minnesota is helping to insulate the region from the kind of controversies and misinformation that have plagued rural clean energy projects in other states. The Rural Minnesota Energy Board has its origins in a regional task force that was set up during the mid-1990s as the state’s first wind farms were being built.
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Dec 13, 2024 |
energynews.us | Frank Jossi
Amid a surge in utility shutoffs, and in the face of a groundbreaking study finding racial disparities in those outcomes, Minnesota’s largest utility is taking a closer look at the issue. In a November agreement with consumer groups and the state’s Public Utilities Commission, Xcel Energy has outlined a series of steps to provide more information to customers and make it easier for them to restore service.
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Dec 2, 2024 |
energynews.us | Frank Jossi
A top executive with Minnesota’s largest utility says data center growth will not prevent it from meeting the state’s 100% clean electricity law, but it may extend the life of natural gas power plants into the next decade.
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Nov 25, 2024 |
energynews.us | Frank Jossi
A solar-powered microgrid project backed with funding from the Biden administration aims to reduce energy burdens and provide backup power to a tiny northern Minnesota tribal community. The Pine Point Resilience Hub would serve an elementary school and community center in Pine Point, an Anishinaabe village of about 330 people on the White Earth Reservation.
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Xcel Energy's proposal to build six natural gas plants before 2030 led a clean energy coalition to develop a counter-proposal that saves $3.5 billion and does the same thing. https://t.co/3DI52fUYRQ
Minnesota has big plans to use a $3 million federal planning grant to expand stakeholder outreach to disadvantaged communities and to prepare for future climate-related investments. #climatechange #minnesota #epa https://t.co/nZ03JNooI8
Xcel pulled support for a project that would have put microgrids on two community centers and one training center in Minneapolis. #microgrids #minneapolis #cleanenergy https://t.co/scDkmCwfjd