Energy
November 5, 2018 | Blog
Minnesota Moves Forward with Performance-Based Regulation Process
Last week, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission decided unanimously to begin exploring performance metrics for the state’s largest utility, Xcel Energy. The decision is a major step towards achieving…
August 23, 2018 | Blog
Assisting States and Stakeholders in the Complicated Work of Grid Modernization
The e21 Initiative has not only provided valuable leadership in shaping a 21st century electric system in Minnesota, it’s created opportunities for utilities in the Midwest and both US coasts to…
July 5, 2017 | Integrated Systems Planning
EUCI: MN is Adopting a Methodological Approach to Grid Modernization (EUCI)
Minnesota — unhampered by the pressures facing some other states — is taking a step-by-step approach in planning and developing a smart grid, one that could be a template for…
May 8, 2017 | Media
Midwest Energy News: Clean Energy Groups Leading on Utility Changes
From Midwest Energy News: Following a two-year study on how to transform utility regulation in Minnesota, clean energy groups are now closely involved with pilot projects that begin to implement…
April 26, 2017 | Media
Forbes: America’s Utility Of The Future Takes Shape In Illinois, Ohio, And Minnesota
From Forbes: …The old model of coupling profits to increased infrastructure investment and greater sales is cracking as competitive technologies like rooftop solar, local storage and smart buildings displace increasing…
December 8, 2016 | Press Release
Minnesota’s e21 Initiative Releases Report on Framework for a 21st Century Electric System
The Great Plains Institute (GPI) and the Center for Energy and Environment (CEE) released a new report today detailing additional steps for Minnesota to protect the public interest by taking…
March 30, 2016 | Blog
Q&A on Performance-Based Regulation with Energy Innovation’s Sonia Aggarwal
In Minnesota, GPI convenes a stakeholder effort called the e21 Initiative that recommends, in part, shifting toward a more performance-based regulatory approach to determine how electric utilities in the state…