This year was challenging for clean energy and climate progress as we faced rollbacks to federal programs and gridlock at the state legislature. Despite these challenges, Fresh Energy is not backing down on our commitment to equitably decarbonize Minnesota’s economy by 2050. You can count on the leadership of our expert staff to continue driving the ambitious and future-focused clean energy and climate policy you’ve come to expect from Fresh Energy.
Your support powers this work. As we near the end of the year, we’re feeling grateful for your partnership and all that it’s helped to accomplish. Your gift is changing lives and building a clean energy future that means cleaner air, lower energy costs, and climate action that protects all.
Your continued support is essential to ensure we can continue changing lives and keep Minnesota on the path to a fully decarbonized future. Will you join us with a gift to Fresh Energy today?
Here’s what Fresh Energy accomplished this year thanks to your generous support:
- Defended Minnesota’s 100% clean electricity by 2040 law during the 2025 legislative session. And we hit a milestone this year— Minnesota’s electricity sector is already halfway decarbonized!
- Helped design Xcel Energy’s Automatic Bill Credit program, changing lives by putting money directly back into the pockets of communities with a high energy burden. Watch how it works!
- Mobilized our Action Network to submit more than 2,050 comments throughout the legislative session and beyond to speak up for critical clean energy and climate policies.
- Advocated for a stronger transmission system with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to reduce emissions, drive down costs, and increase resiliency.
- Scrutinized the natural gas system and identified decarbonization pathways in Natural Gas Innovation Act pilot projects and Gas Integrated Resource Plans at the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission.
- Pushed utilities on Transportation Electrification Plans to cost-effectively expand EV charging infrastructure, including for renters who lack at-home charging options.
Clean energy changes lives, and your continued support will ensure that Fresh Energy keeps Minnesota moving forward.
Fresh Energy will continue building momentum for a clean energy future in our work at the Capitol during the 2026 legislative session. We’re already laying the groundwork for ambitious policies that change Minnesotans’ lives using the same determined approach that led to the establishment of our state’s landmark 100% clean electricity law.
And we’re broadening our focus to ensure Minnesota’s economy is fully decarbonized by mid-century. Our newly created Industry team is bringing Minnesotans together to shape a new path for the heavy industry sector, reducing emissions while strengthening local economies. We’re identifying solutions and policies to get industrial energy users off fossil fuels and onto clean power.
At a time when progress is being rolled back, Fresh Energy’s work is proving that Minnesotans can move forward — together. But we can’t do it without you. Clean energy changes lives, and we’re leading with what matters most: bold, state-level policies that benefit all Minnesotans.
Now more than ever, your support is essential to protecting climate progress and powering Minnesota’s clean energy future. Please donate today.
