Webinar on Greenhouse Gas Performance Standards

The MPCA is beginning its deliberations on a state 111(d) plan for Minnesota in response to EPA’s upcoming rules regulating CO2 emissions from power plants.  On Thursday, May 22 at 1pm, a webinar sponsored by Center for the Energy and the Environment will allow interested parties to hear how Minnesota might draft a plan, and our interest in considering regional approaches to CO2 reductions.  A regional approach might allow for power generating utilities to take into account energy efficiency projects or CO2 reductions at their facilities in other states in order to achieve cost-effective CO2 reductions.  However, because a regional approach would take some time to develop, while states harmonize accounting and tracking of energy projects, states’ initial plans may only focus on efforts within state borders.  States are in conversation now while awaiting EPA’s publication of draft standards for existing power plants. 

Register for this hour-long presentation and discussion.

Read more about EPA’s rulemaking.