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Committee hears pilot to map wastewater heat potential; bill laid over
Summary
Senate File 2106 would fund feasibility work to identify wastewater treatment facilities that could supply thermal energy to district heating systems and allocate limited engineering funds for pilot projects; the committee adopted an A1 amendment and laid the bill over for omnibus consideration.
The Minnesota Senate Energy, Utilities, Environment and Climate Committee heard testimony on Senate File 2106, which would direct a statewide feasibility study to identify wastewater treatment facilities with recoverable thermal energy and provide limited engineering funding for two pilot projects.
Senator McKeown, sponsor of SF 2106, told the committee the bill would provide energy-resource information to the state’s roughly 800 public wastewater treatment facilities. He said two recent studies — in Saint Paul and Duluth — found wastewater facilities with enough recoverable heat to serve about 40,000,000 square feet of building space via district…
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