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Thursday, September 9, 2010
Schedule: Location: UAW-Ford-MnSCU Training Center For Map - click here Update on Minnesota PACE Presenters: Senator John Doll and Lynn Hinkle State Senator John Doll (SD 40 – Bloomington, Burnsville) is Vice Chair of the Energy, Utilities, Technology and Communications Committee and was the chief Senate author of the Minnesota PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) legislation and continues to lead implementation efforts at the state level. Lynn Hinkle is Director of Policy Development for the Minnesota Solar Energy Industries Association (MnSEIA) and has teamed with Senator Doll to both pass and implement PACE throughout Minnesota. The significant accomplishments of the last Minnesota legislative session was passage of PACE as part of the Jobs Bill. PACE enables Minnesota counties and cities to use revenue bond proceeds to finance commercial and residential property owners for energy savings improvements (efficiency and renewable energy systems) repaid via a voluntary assessment on their property taxes. PACE has the potential to create steady large scale energy improvements and a large number of good jobs in the process. Senator Doll and Lynn Hinkle will discuss steps each of us can take to implement PACE in our home counties and cities and the efforts at both the Federal and State level to enhance PACE implementation.
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