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Authorizing the City to enter into an Interconnection Agreement with Xcel Energy, which includes an indemnification clause, for solar at Hamline Midway Library.
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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 Hamline Midway Library currently under construction was designed to align with the State of Minnesota's B3 Sustainable Buildings Guidelines and SB2030 Energy Standard, which require on-site renewable energy generation to meet energy and carbon efficiency standards for the facility; and
WHEREAS, the installation of a 33-kWdc rooftop solar array at Hamline Midway Library 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 Hamline Midway Library.
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