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Local View: Jobs and the environment can and should work together From the column: "To truly take advantage of this moment, finding collective solutions is the only way to succeed." Written By: Dan Olson and Paul Austin | 10:00 am, May 2, 2021 × The challenges ahead of our country in these days and weeks following Earth Day 2021 are no less alarming than those on the first Earth Day in 1970. That was when President Richard Nixon put forth a groundbreaking plan to address pollution and create the Environmental Protection Agency. In the years that followed, Congress passe...

Lake Country Power The Energy Conservation and Optimization (ECO) Act, a bill many years in the making, will modernize the Minnesota’s Conservation Improvement Program (CIP). Enacted in 2007, CIP requires all gas and electric utilities to spend a portion of their revenues on energy conservation. The program has delivered real savings to Minnesotans on their energy bills through the adoption of technologies like LED lighting and Energy Star® rated appliances, providing more than $6 billion in net benefits to the state and supporting over 45,000 local jobs in every corner of Minnesota. ...

Statewide View: Minnesota Chamber members are needed to insist on meaningful climate action From the column: "The damage businesses do by supporting the chamber’s lobbying and rhetoric far outweighs the benefits of their individual sustainability commitments." Written By: Sam Grant | × I write on behalf of climate-justice leaders and clean-energy advocates calling on businesses to hold the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce accountable for its obstruction of Minnesota’s clean-energy transition. While many prominent chamber members have pledged to eliminate their carbon footprint...

President Joe Biden and Gov. Tim Walz want to combat the global climate crisis with bold renewable energy investments combined with energy efficiency directives. Energy efficiency standards will likely increase under Biden. In Minnesota, Walz wants to strengthen the state’s Conservation Improvement Program, which helps consumers and businesses save on energy. Understanding how different strategies and products can help reduce energy demand through efficiency is the focus of the Commerce Department’s “Conservation Applied Research and Development” (CARD) program, part of the Division o...

BEMIDJI, Minnesota, Feb. 17 -- Bemidji State University issued the following news: Bemidji State University has recently received an energy efficiency rebate of more than $137,200 from Otter Tail Power Company as part of the company's Conservation Improvement Program. An additional $9,700 rebate was also granted for Bemidji State's participation in Otter Tail's geothermal study. Travis Barnes, director of facilities, said a key component in reducing energy usage is to lay the ground-work for future projects. "If we want to put solar panels onto a building, it doesn't make sense to do that if ...