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
- Efficient homes are affordable homes, Pt. 1Strengthening building codes to ensure Minnesota’s buildings are constructed to be more efficient makes them more affordable.
- Minnesota improves ECO to advance electrification, efficiency, and equity ahead of filingsEnergy efficiency and conservation are critical pieces of the puzzle in our fight against climate change.
- Tell your senator to support affordable, reliable clean heatTired of spiking gas prices? Speak up today in support of emission-free geothermal. Geothermal systems and thermal energy networks deliver affordable heat, stable bills, and good-paying local jobs.
- Could this Cohasset home be the future of Minnesota’s buildings?Sam Friesen reinvented the all-electric home in Cohasset, Minnesota with Itasca County Habitat for Humanity to show that sustainable homes can save families money in the near- and long-term.
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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







