To slow a warming climate, Minnesota is changing where it gets electricity — shrinking the state’s reliance on fossil fuels and expanding the use of renewable energy.
Today, more than half of Minnesota’s electricity comes from solar, wind and hydropower. But challenges remain.
For the state to reach its ambitious goal of being carbon neutral by 2050, Minnesotans would need to embrace new ways of heating homes, traveling, powering the state’s factories and much more. And now there are questions about how President Donald Trump’s tariffs and opposition to wind and solar energy might affect an energy transition.
MPR News has been exploring a transition to a carbon-free economy in the series Getting to Green.
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