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Authorizing the City to enter into an Interconnection Agreement with Xcel Energy, which includes an indemnification clause, for solar at North End Community Center.
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WHEREAS, the City of Saint Paul’s Climate Action and Resilience Plan, adopted in December 2019, established a goal of achieving carbon neutrality in city operations by 2030 and included a key action of increasing municipal installations of renewable energy; and
WHEREAS, the City of Saint Paul previously dedicated local, state, and federal funding for the design and construction of the North End Community Center; and
WHEREAS, the North End Community Center was designed and constructed in alignment with the State of Minnesota's B3 Sustainable Buildings Guidelines and SB2030 Energy Standard which required onsite renewable energy generation to meet energy and carbon efficiency standards for the facility; and
WHEREAS, the installation of a 40-kW rooftop solar array at North End Community Center will require the City of Saint Paul to enter into a Minnesota Distributed Energy Resource Interconnection Agreement with Xcel Energy, which includes an indemnification clause in favor of Xcel; and now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, that the City Council hereby authorizes and directs the proper city officials to enter into the Interconnection Agreement with Xcel Energy, which includes an indemnification clause, for the rooftop solar array at North End Community Center.
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