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Senate committee hears bill to raise LNG storage threshold for certificate-of-need review
Summary
The Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate Committee heard testimony on Senate File 1455, which would raise the liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage threshold that triggers Minnesota Public Utilities Commission certificate-of-need review; bill was laid over for possible omnibus inclusion.
Senate File 1455, carried by Sen. John Hoffman, was heard March 12 before the Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate Committee in Room 1150 of the Minnesota Senate Building. The bill would raise the storage-capacity threshold that triggers a certificate of need (CN) from the existing statutory level for liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage set in the 1970s.
The measure matters because a CN requires a time-consuming and often costly public review by the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC). Proponents said the current 100,000-gallon CN threshold discourages utilities from…
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