TL;DR: Fossil fuel interests want to force us to keep paying them more for dirty, less reliable electricity. Our own electric grid says it "would increase costs to customers ... by replacing an efficient, regional solution with a piecemeal one," that is "haphazard and unrealistic."

Once you cut through the politics of clean energy, this is what many of the decisions boil down to, imo: "Strand, the Pelican Rapids council member who initially fought against the proposal, said he couldn’t find a good reason to vote against it in the end."

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Thank you! That does look very similar. Which app did you use?

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I mean it's basically just green loans and I know this is kind of everywhere but has any org made it their big flashy centerpiece?

The U.S. now gives the fossil fuel industry $34 billion a year. They've enjoyed federal subsidies for over a century.

A lot of people don't know this but the Salem Witch Trials were actually an abbreviation of the Sailor Moon Witch Trials

And averaged out through the year, Minnesota's electricity is already halfway decarbonized: fresh-energy.org/minnesotas-e...

Some people's hobby is looking up flight information for planes that pass by. Mine is checking fuel sources on different areas of the grid for fun.

Anyways, MISO as a whole is >50% carbon-free today. But in my neck of the woods, the MN/ND/SD subregion is about 62% wind and 14% nuclear, so >75% carbon-free.