SF 1456 Summary

• Commission shall set rates based on cost of service while considering noncost factors including economic growth, job retention, energy conservation, and renewable energy use to further state energy and climate goals.

• Commission cannot approve new or refurbished carbon-emitting resources in integrated resource plans or certificates of need unless utility demonstrates that carbon-free resources alone or in combination are not in public interest.

• Utilities must file resource plans that include least-cost plans for meeting 50 and 75 percent of new energy needs through carbon-free resources, including renewable energy, energy storage, nuclear, hydrogen, and carbon capture technology.

• Investor-owned electric utilities must petition commission by January 1, 2021, for approval of demand-side management programs compensating large industrial customers for reducing electricity demand during emergency and normal conditions.

• Commissioner of commerce must request Midcontinent Independent System Operator conduct engineering study of transmission system impacts and costs needed to support increased carbon-free generation and possible retirement of existing generation, with report due by December 1, 2021.