Fresh Energy is cutting emissions from our buildings by making it easy to electrify, ensuring energy burden inequities are addressed, improving health and safety, and spurring market transformation with the creation of new, family-supporting jobs.
Ensuring buildings are resilient and affordable for all
Advancing innovative technologies and forge new pathways to decarbonize the natural gas system
Expanding all-electric buildings through market transformation
- Minnesota Public Utilities Commission maintains gas line extension allowances with new monitoring requirements, uniform distance
Proposals to eliminate or phase out line extension allowances were deferred back to rate cases. - Federal changes undermine affordability and consumer choice
DOE’s revised Home Energy Rebates guidance reduces support for electrification and equity priorities, drawing criticism and increasing the need for state action. - Minnesota shouldn’t invest in gas line extensions during an affordability squeeze
Line Extension Allowances are making natural gas bills higher for Minnesotans and holding back our state from reaching its climate targets. - Efficient homes are affordable homes, Pt. II
Strengthening building codes to ensure Minnesota’s buildings are constructed to be more efficient makes them more affordable.
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Hidden beneath our feet: Minnesota’s growing decarbonization challenge
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Fact Sheet: Accelerate residential energy codes
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Going all electric in a cold-weather climate
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Understanding the Gas System
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Working Group Recommendations on the Minnesota Weatherization Assistance Program
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Inaugural cycle of MWBDC grants program drives equity, justice, and community power
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Electrification of Multifamily Housing in Minnesota
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Report: Proposal for a heat pump transition in Minnesota
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Buildings for a Healthy Future
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The Hanson House: powering our future with clean electricity
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Clean Energy Brief: Natural Gas in Minnesota
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2020 Midwest Getting to Zero Buildings List