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I bring this Minnesota bill to your attention thinking that it may be one
state that we can point to as moving forward rather than backward as a response to California. This bill would absolutely not have moved if California had not been on the radar screen--for the first time in four years, the leadership insisted that the caucuses move something out of committee on energy. WHile customer choice did not ultimately survive (it got knocked out towards the end of the committee votes), there was a general agreement by committee members that MN had to prepare for retail access, but that they needed to get the wholesale market in better shape in preparation. By the way, the enviromental community was very very confident that they were going to get a mandate for a 10% renewable portfolio standard by 2015, and they were then going to make Minnesota the poster child to promote mandated RPS across the country. Their mandate turned into "goals" to be met by utilities, and they are not happy. ----- Forwarded by Susan M Landwehr/NA/Enron on 05/23/2001 07:02 AM ----- Susan M Landwehr 05/23/2001 07:01 AM To: Fred Mitro/HOU/ECT@ECT, Ben Jacoby/HOU/ECT@ECT, Mitch Robinson/Corp/Enron@Enron, Edward D Baughman/Enron@EnronXGate, Christi L Nicolay/HOU/ECT@ECT, Jeff Ader/HOU/EES@EES, Mark Bernstein/HOU/EES@EES, Marc Ulrich/HOU/EES@EES, Scott Stoness/HOU/EES@EES, Ajit Gill/HOU/EES@EES, Jeff Rudolph/HOU/EES@EES, Terri Clynes/Enron@EnronXGate, Oscar Dalton/Enron@EnronXGate cc: Janine Migden/NA/Enron@Enron, Roy Boston/HOU/EES@EES, Kerry Stroup/NA/Enron@Enron, Harry Kingerski/NA/Enron@Enron, Robert Frank/NA/Enron@Enron, Donald Lassere/NA/Enron@Enron, Bill J Moore/EFS/EES@EES, James D Steffes/NA/Enron@Enron, Barbara A Hueter/NA/Enron@Enron, Jennifer Thome/NA/Enron@Enron Subject: Minnesota Energy Legislation Earlier this week the Minnesota legislature passed an omnibus energy bill--SF #722. The Governor is expected to sign the bill. Much of the bill focused on increasing conservation, helping low income customers, setting goals for renewable energy development, setting up reliability standards (the unions had to get something!) etc. However, there are also some sections that may be commercially beneficial to us. The bill streamlines the process for transmission siting, and to a small degree, makes generation siting a bit easier. Interconnection standards and rules for distributed generation (defined as up to 10MW) are required and the process will begin late this summer. The munis and coops had a section on "joint finance" that will allow them to enter into projects with other parties--this should make it easier for them to do business with us. Minnesota has approx 120 municipal utilities and over 40 co ops. There is still outstanding an issue of a personal property tax exemption for merchant plants. That provision was transfered to the overall tax bill, which is still being debated. We should have a conclusion on the tax bill late next week. Please call if you have any questions or would like further info. #612-339-4599
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