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Senate panel reviews agrivoltaics, pollinator‑friendly solar and proposed specialty license plate funding (SF2653)
Summary
Witnesses described agrivoltaics and Minnesota's Habitat Friendly Solar program and supported Senate File 2653, which would add an agrivoltaics definition and create a voluntary specialty license plate to fund habitat monitoring and incentives administered by the Board of Water and Soil Resources.
Senate File 2653, an informational proposal that would clarify a statutory definition of agrivoltaics and create a voluntary solar pollinator specialty license plate to fund the Habitat Friendly Solar Program, was presented April 21 to the Senate Agriculture Committee.
Senator Sarah Kopec (presenting the bill) said Minnesota's 2016 pollinator‑friendly solar statute and the Board of Water and Soil Resources' (BWSR) program produced measurable benefits: she cited a "five‑year longitudinal study" showing roughly a 20‑fold increase in native bumblebees and other pollinators at sites managed under the standard. Kopec said the program lacks a dedicated funding stream and that the…
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