Nice Profile in ECM Papers

ECM Publishers reporter Tim Budig stopped by my Capitol office last week. One never knows how the final piece might turn out, but Mr. Budig did a pretty good job capturing my general approach to serving Chisago County in the State House. Catch it here.

The Energy Bill he references, House File 1221, was initially presented today in the Energy Finance Committee, and will be voted on in committee on Wednesday. When fully implemented by 2025, we will save over 24% of the state's electricity, making the Renewable Energy Standard we passed last week easier and less expensive to achieve.

The cost savings may be immense. The cost of adding new power to the system is about 8 cents a kilowatt hour. The cost of saving energy is about 1.5 cents a kilowatt hour. More later...