Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate
2025-2026 Regular Session
Report Date: May 2, 2025 9:04:25 PM
| Bill # | Senate Author | Description | Date Received | Hearing Date | Action Taken | Senate Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SF58 | Green | Cooperative electric associations exemption from clean and renewable energy standards | 01/16/2025 | |||
| SF350 | Mathews | Certificate of need issuance for a new nuclear power plant prohibition abolishment | 01/21/2025 | 01/29/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF425 | Weber | Small natural gas utilities Minnesota Public Utilities Commission regulation exemption eligibility provision | 01/21/2025 | |||
| SF426 | Mathews | Hydroelectric capacity that qualifies as an eligible energy technology under the renewable energy standard modification provision | 01/21/2025 | 01/29/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF434 | Mathews | Certain incumbent electric transmission owner rights elimination provision | 01/21/2025 | |||
| SF465 | Mathews | Submission of a decommissioning and repurposing plan requirement for a schedule retirement of an electric generation facility | 01/21/2025 | |||
| SF466 | Mathews | Bans by political subdivisions prohibition on certain natural gas or propane service to any building | 01/21/2025 | |||
| SF468 | Mathews | Certificates of need authorization for certain small modular reactors | 01/21/2025 | 01/29/2025 | Amended and recommended to pass | |
| SF486 | Dibble | Supplemental energy assistance appropriation | 01/23/2025 | 02/05/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF572 | Mathews | Energy provisions modifications | 01/23/2025 | |||
| SF573 | Mathews | Hydroelectric generated energy of any capacity to be considered an eligible energy technology authorization | 01/23/2025 | |||
| SF635 | Lang | Biomass energy plant closure and sale business compensation process establishment | 01/27/2025 | |||
| SF701 | Lucero | Electric utilities requirement to obtain consent to install certain electric meters authorization | 01/27/2025 | |||
| SF718 | Lucero | Prohibition on issuing certificate of need abolishment for new nuclear plant | 01/27/2025 | |||
| SF733 | Kunesh | Disposition of abandoned pipelines provision | 01/27/2025 | 03/19/2025 | Recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on Environment, Climate, and Legacy | |
| SF761 | Xiong | Minnesota Energy Alley appropriation | 01/30/2025 | 04/02/2025 | Amended, laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF821 | Lang | Hydroelectric capacity that qualifies as an eligible energy technology under the renewable energy standard modification | 01/30/2025 | |||
| SF997 | Koran | Community solar garden subscribers requirement to reside in the same county as the solar garden generating facility | 02/06/2025 | |||
| SF999 | Xiong | Natural gas utilities authorization to sell extraordinary event bonds under certain circumstances | 02/06/2025 | 02/19/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1037 | Xiong | Anaerobic digestor energy system appropriation | 02/06/2025 | 03/24/2025 | Amended, laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1142 | Rarick | Net energy metering provisions modification | 02/10/2025 | 03/10/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1260 | Gruenhagen | Prohibition abolishment on issuing certificates of need for new nuclear plant | 02/13/2025 | |||
| SF1393 | Mathews | Data center energy generation redundancy establishment | 02/13/2025 | 04/28/2025 | ||
| SF1429 | Rasmusson | Electricity generated outside the state exemption from the requirement that a certain proportion of retail electricity be carbon-free by certain dates | 02/17/2025 | |||
| SF1432 | Farnsworth | Biomass definition modification provision | 02/17/2025 | |||
| SF1433 | Mathews | Electric utilities obtaining of consent from utility customers prior to implementing a time-of-use rate program requirement provision | 02/17/2025 | |||
| SF1434 | Mathews | Solar energy production incentive program allocations from the renewable development account elimination after 2025 provision | 02/17/2025 | |||
| SF1435 | Mathews | Advanced nuclear study requirement provision and appropriation | 02/17/2025 | |||
| SF1436 | Mathews | Electric utility definition modification for the purposes of certain renewable energy standards provision | 02/17/2025 | |||
| SF1455 | Hoffman | Large energy facility definition modification | 02/17/2025 | 03/12/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1530 | Mathews | Carbon-free standards implementation suspension under certain circumstances provision | 02/17/2025 | |||
| SF1710 | Putnam | Ammonia, hydrogen, and renewable energy certification tracking system appropriation | 02/20/2025 | 03/05/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1713 | Putnam | Green Hydrogen Project appropriation | 02/20/2025 | 03/05/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1741 | Port | Local governments requirement to establish residential instant solar permitting platforms | 02/20/2025 | |||
| SF1787 | Xiong | Schools ventilation improvement and geothermal infrastructure financing program establishment and appropriation | 02/24/2025 | 03/05/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1879 | Gruenhagen | Cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence data centers sales exemption from certain energy savings goals provision | 02/27/2025 | |||
| SF1924 | Pratt | A+ Energy Act establishment | 02/27/2025 | |||
| SF1970 | Mathews | Procedures modification governing cost recovery for public utility electric generation and transmission assets | 02/27/2025 | |||
| SF1971 | Eichorn | Brainerd appropriation for certain energy efficiency projects | 02/27/2025 | |||
| SF1975 | Bahr | Various net metering governing provisions modifications | 02/27/2025 | |||
| SF2017 | Putnam | Green ammonia power generations technology research and developments appropriation | 02/27/2025 | 03/05/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF2018 | Weber | Certain uses of B100 fuel inclusion as a carbon-free energy technology | 02/27/2025 | 03/19/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF2074 | Marty | Rate recovery of executive pay for certain public utilities limitation | 03/03/2025 | |||
| SF2220 | Oumou Verbeten | Como Zoo geothermal energy system appropriation | 03/06/2025 | 03/24/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF2224 | Rasmusson | Telephone companies or telecommunications carriers exemption to serve certain areas | 03/24/2025 | 04/02/2025 | Amended, recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection | |
| SF2369 | Mathews | Renewable development account repeal; solar production initiative program sunset establishment; appropriating money | 03/10/2025 | |||
| SF2454 | McEwen | Geothermal planning grants appropriation | 03/13/2025 | 03/24/2025 | Amended, laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF2653 | Kupec | Solar pollinator programs special license plate establishment and agrivoltaic solar sites eligibility for solar site management practices provision | 03/17/2025 | |||
| SF2664 | Mathews | Local government and Tribal approval for all solar projects requirement | 03/17/2025 | |||
| SF2710 | Farnsworth | "Carbon free" definition modification | 03/20/2025 | 04/02/2025 | Amended, laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF2758 | Xiong | microgrid research and application appropriation and extension of previous appropriations | 03/20/2025 | 03/24/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF2855 | Frentz | Community solar garden program sunset | 03/20/2025 | 03/26/2025 | Recommended to pass | |
| SF2900 | McEwen | Geothermal heat exchange system rebate program establishment and appropriation | 03/24/2025 | 03/26/2025 | Amended, laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF2926 | Hauschild | Minnesota's geologic hydrogen potential evaluation appropriation | 03/24/2025 | 04/02/2025 | Amended, laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF2953 | Mathews | New nuclear power plant certificate of need issuance prohibition abolishment | 03/24/2025 | |||
| SF3110 | Hauschild | Next generation ire ore industry feedstock study appropriation | 04/01/2025 | |||
| SF3201 | Oumou Verbeten | St. Paul Athletic Club building energy efficiency improvements appropriation | 04/01/2025 | 04/02/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF3209 | McEwen | Additional information requirement in a public utility's resource plan | 04/01/2025 | |||
| SF3211 | Champion | Macalester College geothermal energy system appropriation | 04/01/2025 | |||
| SF3221 | Hoffman | Apportioned and submetered utility service bills made due no less than 31 days from the date of bill issuance by landlords requirement provision | 04/02/2025 | |||
| SF3363 | Drazkowski | Spent fuel located at Prairie Island requirement to be transferred to another site for storage | 04/09/2025 | |||
| SF3429 | McEwen | Building energy performance standards establishment and appropriation | 04/24/2025 | |||
| SF3444 | Gruenhagen | Data centers exclusion from gross annual retail energy sales for energy conservation and optimization purposes | 04/25/2025 | |||
| SF3477 | Weber | Reimbursement program for underground petroleum storage tank systems with pressurized single-walled steel piping establishment | 05/01/2025 |