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Southeast Clean Energy Resource Team Strategic Energy Plan Southeast Clean Energy Resource Team Strategic Energy Plan CERTS PARTNERS: Minnesota Department of Commerce The Minnesota Project University of Minnesota Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships Rural Minnesota Energy Board Metropolitan Counties Energy Task Force Resource Conservation and Development Councils FUNDED BY: The Legislative Commission on Minnesota Resources from the U.S. Department of Energy Oil Overcharge Money The Carolyn Foundation The Blandin Foundation Minnesota Department of Commerce U.S. Department of Energy Community Assistantship Program, University of Minnesota, with financial sup- port from the Otto Bremer Foundation and Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships Program University of Minnesota Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment University of Minnesota Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships FINAL REPORT Energy Use, Renewable Energy Resources and Potential for Meeting the Energy Needs of the Fifteen Counties in SE/SC MN from Local Renewable Energy Resources and Energy Efficiency From the Citizens on the THE SE/SC CLEAN ENERGY RESOURCE TEAM Representing 15 Counties in SE/SC Minnesota: Blue Earth, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston, Le Sueur, Mower, Olmsted, Rice, Steele, Wabasha, Waseca, Winona JUNE 2005 Dedicated to Dick Broeker, 1942 - 2004 The SE/SC Clean Energy Resource Team (CERT) dedicates this report to the memory of Dick Broeker. As Director of the Experiment in Rural Cooperation in SE Minnesota, Dick was involved in establishing the CERTs Project. When the Clean Energy Resources Teams were formed in regions around the state in December 2003, Dick was instrumental in organizing our team and helping us with our work through June 2004, when he retired. During this time, we completed a Strategic Plan to guide our work and an Inventory and Assessment of the people, infrastructure and resources in our area. Dick was our friend, mentor and cheerleader. He believed strongly that individuals could make a difference and that citizens working together in new public and private partnerships could make the world a better place. He helped us in myriad ways -- by connecting us with technical experts, finding resources for us and helping us think through and articulate complex issues. Most importantly, Dick had great faith that we -- ordinary citizens in SE/SC Minnesota - - could design a clean renewable energy plan for our region and then shape an energy future based on that plan. Because he believed in us, we believed in ourselves. We’ve done -- and will do -- our best to live up to his vision. This report is part of Dick’s legacy, which will continue on as we use it to shape our work and create the clean renewable energy future for our region that we envisioned at the start of our journey together in December 2003. June 2005 2 PREFACE “The thing to do with the future is not to forecast it, but to create it. The objective of planning should be to design a desirable future and to invent ways of bringing it about.” -Russele Achoff We believe it is essential for citizens of the state to be involved in the decisions being made about our energy future and the type of energy future we want. Energy impacts every aspect of our lives; those decisions shouldn’t be left to technical experts, politicians, government officials and/or executives at the power companies. Section 1 defines the type of clean, renewable energy future we want for our area. This includes an articulation of the values and principles that serve as the foundation or underpinnings of the type of energy future and energy system we want – one that is clean, renewable, affordable, reliable and safe. The rest of the report sets out to accomplish five things: (1) provide information about the Clean Energy Resource Team Project and our SE/SC CERT; (2) paint a broad picture of the people, resources and infrastructure in our 15 counties in SE/SC Minnesota – things such as land use, how many people there are, where they are living, how they are moving about and the major economic activities they are engaged in; (3) describe briefly what energy is, how we use energy in different forms and amounts, where different sources of energy comes from and future prospects for their availability, the health and environmental impacts resulting from using different types of energy, external costs and subsidies masking the true costs of using different types of energy; (4) identify and assess the renewable energy resources in the region and the potential for saving energy and replacing conventional fuels with energy produced from those local renewable resources; and (5) identify barriers to implementing renewable energy projects in our region. Hopefully this information will serve as a road map for designing and implementing a clean, renewable energy future for our region, our counties and our communities. When we started this project, we weren’t sure if we would be able to meet our energy needs in different forms from local renewable energy resources and using energy more wisely. We are now confident that we can do so and export energy to other regions. The question becomes do we have the June 2005 3 political will and fortitude to make it happen for our children and our grandchildren. There are different reasons why members of our Clean Energy Resource Team support clean renewable energy and using energy more wisely. Some of us are interested in the good jobs and economic development benefits that accompany locating renewable energy and energy efficiency projects throughout our area. We estimate that well over a billion and a half dollars are leaving our area every year to import energy. By developing renewable energy projects within our area to meet our energy needs, we could keep those dollars at home. Some of us are farmers who want to earn more income from having wind generators on our farms and adding value to our commodities. Some of us are environmentalists concerned about global warming, mercury pollution and acid rain. Most of us are parents and grandparents concerned about what the future holds for our children and grandchildren. The beauty of renewable energy is that it has something for everyone – Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, farmers and city dwellers, young and old, environmentalists and business people. Renewable energy makes good sense for everyone and good dollars and cents for our region. So if you read something in this paper that you don’t agree with, please keep reading. You don’t have to believe in global warming or be an environmentalist to support renewable energy. Renewable energy has something for everyone. We decided not to assess the potential of renewable technologies that are on the horizon, such as fuel cells, producing ethanol from cellulose, hydrogen. We think that producing ethanol from cellulose and being able to charge fuel cells from locally- produced biogas hold great potential for our future. We are also interested in progress being made to extract hydrogen from water using wind-powered electrolysis for local and regional use. However, we do not think it is wise to be producing hydrogen from nonrenewable fuels, such as natural gas, other fossil fuels or nuclear power. We hope the reader will keep in mind that this report was prepared by citizen volunteers, who took time from their regular busy lives over the course of a year and a half to prepare it and be part of designing and creating a clean renewable energy future for the 15 counties in SE/SC Minnesota. It is broad sweeping and was not meant to be highly technical or comprehensive or provide in-depth information about renewable energy technologies or energy efficiency programs that the reader could easily find elsewhere. We regret any errors. June 2005 4 Acknowledgements Many individuals and organizations have supported our efforts and contributed to this report’s content and preparation. We thank them and anyone we may have inadvertently forgotten. Individuals we want to thank include Dick Broeker, Director of the Experiment in Rural Cooperation (the SE MN Regional Sustainable Development Partnership) through June 2004; Erin Tegtmeier, Director of the Experiment in Rural Cooperation (the SE MN Regional Sustainable Development Partnership) beginning July 2004; Joel Haskard, CERT Assistant Coordinator; Shannon Drake, our research assistant extraordinaire; David Morris and John Bailey from the Institute for Local Self Reliance for advising us on myriad topics throughout the project; Lola Schoenrich, Amanda Bilek, and Mark Lindquist from the Minnesota Project; Jamie Schultz for doing GIS work; Mike Michaud, Jeff Cook-Coyle, and Lee Dilley for their wind assessments; Douglas Tiffany from the University of Minnesota for his agriculture/energy use information; Rich Huelskamp for his assessment of conservation potential; Charles Peterson from the PCA for help in obtaining information about waste water treatment plants, biosolids, and feedlots for the potential biogas assessment; Jeff Cook-Coyle for his outline of the barriers issues and economic development potential for wind development in our region; Mike Michaud for helping identify barriers and working on how we might remove barriers we have identified; Carol Overland and Kristen Eide-Tollefson for their help in understanding transmission line issues; Ward Lutz for his help on the energy used in transportation in our region and the definitions of energy conservation and energy productivity; and Norm Erickson for all his comments and contributions. We want to give special thanks to Nancy Adams, who chaired the SE/SC Clean Energy Resource Team with dedication and enthusiasm and wrote this report, and to Melissa Pawlisch, the statewide CERT coordinator, who has worked tirelessly on our behalf and helped identify, gather and assess important information, connected us with technical experts and resources, and cheered us on when we were overwhelmed with the enormity and complexity of the task at hand.
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