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SF4463 • 2026

Repeal the 100 percent carbon free by 2040 standard

Repeal the 100 percent carbon free by 2040 standard

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Mathews, Rarick, Green, Weber, Gruenhagen
Last action
2026-03-17
Official status
Introduction and first reading
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Repeal the 100 percent carbon free by 2040 standard

Repeal the 100 percent carbon free by 2040 standard

What This Bill Does

  • Repeal the 100 percent carbon free by 2040 standard

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Bill History

  1. 2026-03-17 House

    Introduction and first reading

Official Summary Text

Repeal the 100 percent carbon free by 2040 standard

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relating to energy; repealing the 100 percent carbon free by 2040 standard; repealing

Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 216B.1691, subdivision 2g.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

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REPEALER.
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Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 216B.1691, subdivision 2g,

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is repealed.

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APPENDIX

Repealed Minnesota Statutes: 26-07710

216B.1691 RENEWABLE ENERGY OBJECTIVES.

Subd. 2g.

Carbon-free standard.

In addition to the requirements under subdivisions 2a and 2f, each electric utility must generate or procure sufficient electricity generated from a carbon-free energy technology to provide the electric utility's retail customers in Minnesota, or the retail customers of a distribution utility to which the electric utility provides wholesale electric service, so that the electric utility generates or procures an amount of electricity from carbon-free energy technologies that is equivalent to at least the following standard percentages of the electric utility's total retail electric sales to retail customers in Minnesota by the end of the year indicated:

(1)

2030

80 percent for public utilities; 60 percent for other electric utilities

(2)

2035

90 percent for all electric utilities

(3)

2040

100 percent for all electric utilities.