On the House Floor this week, we heard the DFL's Blackout bill, which would require the state to move to 100% clean energy by 2040. This bill sped through the committee process, bypassing all but one committee.
This Blackout Bill is unaffordable, and would cost each Minnesota family an estimated $1,600 per year just in higher energy costs. Other related costs could push that total to close to $4,000 a year for each family.
The bill does nothing to ensure the state would have a safe and reliable energy grid, which could result in widespread blackouts and brownouts - in a state that frequently sees below zero temperatures and heavy snow for large parts of the year, this is an extremely dangerous direction for the state's energy policy to move.
This bill is unaffordable, unreliable, and dangerous, and I voted no.
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