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Minnesota Power is advancing its EnergyForward vision for 100% carbon-free energy with the issuance of an RFP for up to 300 MW of regional solar energy to come online by 2027.

The RFP follows Minnesota Power’s 2021 Integrated Resource Plan, approved by the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, with procurement of solar through this RFP potentially growing Minnesota Power’s solar portfolio tenfold.

As part of its EnergyForward strategy, Minnesota Power seeks cost-effective solar resources that are within its service territory with direct interconnections to the company’s transmission system. Preference will be given to projects in communities that have generation resources impacted by the company’s decarbonization plans.

The RFP strives to maximize the regional economic benefits of solar development, including preferences for diverse bidders and requirements for using union labor, local labor for construction and permanent staffing and the development of apprenticeship programs.

“As we demonstrated with our three recent regional solar projects, this RFP reflects our commitment to creating opportunities for our communities during the clean-energy transformation,” says Minnesota Power COO Josh Skelton.

“We’re seeking projects that will create local construction jobs and tax base in communities, train people for the future and generate renewable energy for our customers. Getting this energy transformation right means building a truly sustainable future where everyone can thrive.”

Minnesota Power will consider multiple power supply options to meet its customers’ solar resource needs, including build-own-transfer and power purchase agreement projects along with self-build projects.

Proposals will be accepted through Jan. 5, 2024. Click here to learn more or to file a proposal.

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Trump the Savior

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What Noam Chomsky says here is spot on, especially with respect to Trump.

What makes Trump so good at this is his facility to invent a new boogieman every couple of days.  Communism, Dr. Fauci, Venezuela’s drug boats, Iran, birthright citizenship, democrats, the damage done by previous presidents, the climate hoax, the Kennedy Center, the arch, the vandals at the Reflecting Pool, Black Lives Matter, Antifa, liberals in education, the Hollywood elite, unsafe vaccinations, trans people, a nuclearized Iran, massive voter fraud, Haitians eating our pets, Harvard, the ex-Fed Chairman, NATO, wind turbines, the far-left radicals, the election control people, the list goes on.

Then there are the near-daily outrages:

Turning Gaza into a luxury resort, annexing Greenland, curtailing environmental emission standards, usurping the Panama Canal, refusing to pay E. Jean Carroll, pardoning hundreds of violent convicted felons, accepting bribes for pardoning white collar fraudsters, insider trading, orchestrating deals that benefit his children, targeting Jack Smith, protecting ICE agents who commit murder/manslaughter, and leasing federal wilderness land for oil exploration

The more indefensible the better.

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Is her point that there are countries that are even more repressive to women’s rights?

Does anyone disagree with that?

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Trump’s Blaming Others Is a Big Part of His Charm

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The words at left may seem obvious to you and me but realize that we live among tens of millions of people who are completely desperate to cling onto their beliefs that Trump is an honest and effective servant of the American people, however contrary to the evidence this may be.

Trump’s Blaming Others Is a Big Part of His Charm

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