MN: Solar Outside the Sunbelt: Minnesota

Greentech Media: Minnesota’s solar resource is the same as that of Jacksonville, Florida or Houston, Texas, according to Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) Senior Researcher John Farrell. Its installed solar capacity is 13 megawatts. Farrell is part of a drive to have the legislature set a standard requiring 10 percent solar by 2030, which would grow installed capacity to some 5,300 megawatts.

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