Category: Minnesota
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This commercial solar project blends public art, on-site generation in Minneapolis’ Uptown
From Energy News Network: MoZaic East’s developers worked with artists, engineers, designers and architects to create an 8-story, block-long solar installation unlike any other that now overlooks Minneapolis’ busy Uptown neighborhood. Wavy ribbons of tilted panels, each colored in checkerboard patterns of gray and purple, run the length of theRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Win for clean energy: Minnesota PUC orders Xcel to provide more detail in HCA report
Two weeks ago, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission ordered Xcel to make several changes to its 2020 Hosting Capacity Analysis (HCA) report, which it will file in early November. Whereas previous HCA maps from Xcel aggregated all the results and blurred out a lot of detail, future HCAs will showRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Excelsior Energy Capital continues to build its Minnesota solar portfolio with five more ground-mount sites
North American renewable energy investor Excelsior Energy Capital acquired five more Minnesota ground-mount solar projects from development partner Nokomis Energy this week. The Kingfield Portfolio, located across Southern Minnesota, totals 6.3 MWDC and brings Excelsior’s total portfolio of ground-mount solar projects in Minnesota to 21.6 MWDC, all as part ofRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Solar installers in Minnesota are deemed essential and continue to find work
From the Energy News Network: Minnesota solar installers say they have been able to continue work on rooftops with only limited disruptions so far from the coronavirus pandemic. Gov. Tim Walz’s emergency executive order requiring Minnesota residents to stay at home permits some businesses to stay open, including those inRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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This new building code in Minnesota is going to hurt its residential solar market
From Energy News Network: In Minnesota, an industry group says the rules will shrink available space for solar panels by at least 20%. New safety regulations taking effect today in Minnesota are expected to reduce the size of residential solar installations by at least 20%, industry officials say. Under theRead More — Solar Builder magazine