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*Notice of Request for Applications*

*Minnesota Low and Moderate-Income Accessible Community Solar Garden Program – 2025 Applications*

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Community Solar

During the 2023 Legislative session, the Minnesota Legislature made changes to the Community Solar Garden statute (Minn. Stat. 216B.1641 [ [link removed] ]), sunsetting the “Legacy” program operated by Xcel Energy and establishing a new program to be administered by the Minnesota Department of Commerce (“Department”). The Department is now accepting applications for the new Low and Moderate-Income Accessible Community Solar Garden Program (“LMI-Accessible CSG Program”).

Information about the new LMI-Accessible CSG Program can be accessed on the Department’s LMI-Accessible CSG Program website, [ [link removed] ] with newly-updated separate pages for consumers [ [link removed] ] and developers [ [link removed] ]. Visit the Department’s RFP website [ [link removed] ] to download the full RFA and access the application portal.

The Department seeks applications from in-development solar systems seeking approval to become community solar gardens. No funding is available through this program. It will be the responsibility of individual developers or owners of community solar gardens (“Subscriber Organizations”) to sign up subscribers. Please note that the LMI-Accessible CSG Program is only available to projects built in Xcel Energy’s service territory and that all subscribers must be customers of Xcel Energy.

*The application window for the 2025 RFA opens on Wednesday, February 12, 2025, and closes on Wednesday, December 31, 2025. Commerce will review community solar applications in batches on a monthly basis, based on the calendar month that the application was submitted in. **To be considered for Batch 1 of the 2025 RFA, project applications must be submitted by no later than Friday, February 28, 2025
at 11:59 PM Central Time.*

All expenses incurred in applying to this notice are solely the responsibility of the applicant.

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*Minnesota Department of Commerce | Energy Division
*85 7th Place East, Suite 280 | St. Paul, MN 55101*
*Email: [email protected]
Local: 651-539-1886 | Greater MN: 1-800-657-3710

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