https://mn.gov/ en-us https://mn.gov/ https://mn.gov/ 2026-05-15T15:13:07Z https://mn.gov/commerce/energy/policy-data-reports/index.jsp?id=17-696931 This week's most current completed reports 2026-05-08T15:49:16Z https://mn.gov/commerce/energy/policy-data-reports/index.jsp?id=17-681861 This week's most current completed reports 2026-05-01T20:01:18Z https://mn.gov/commerce/energy/policy-data-reports/index.jsp?id=17-696930 This week's most current completed reports 2026-04-24T13:56:44Z https://mn.gov/commerce/energy/policy-data-reports/index.jsp?id=17-705921 This week's most current completed reports 2026-01-21T17:19:23Z https://mn.gov/commerce/energy/policy-data-reports/index.jsp?id=17-720465 <p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Guideline 36 is intended to maximize energy efficiency, building performance, and control stability while enabling simple real time fault detection and diagnostics, and supporting compliance with various building codes. This CARD funded research seeks to quantify energy savings and implementation costs from deploying ASHRAE Guideline 36 in Minnesota commercial buildings, assess the nationwide market landscape for Guideline 36 adoption, and identify how Guideline 36 can inform and enhance Minnesota utilities’ ECO programs.</p> 2026-01-20T17:56:34Z https://mn.gov/commerce/energy/policy-data-reports/index.jsp?id=17-720137 <p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Slipstream executed this CARD study to assess the potential that Refrigeration Thermal Energy storage (RTES) systems have to deliver energy savings and demand reduction in Minnesota’s refrigeration sector. Given the large number of refrigerated warehouses, industrial food processing facilities, and supermarkets in Minnesota, there is significant potential for RTES deployment.</p> 2026-01-19T18:02:19Z https://mn.gov/commerce/energy/policy-data-reports/index.jsp?id=17-735582 <p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">This card grant grant research project was designed to investigate the potential market, energy performance, cost, and utility incentive for multifamily passive construction in the cold and very cold climates of Minnesota. </p> 2025-12-02T18:23:47Z https://mn.gov/commerce/energy/policy-data-reports/index.jsp?id=17-714966 <p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Industrial heat pump (IHP) development began in earnest in the 1980s, associated with uncertain gas markets, but the technology gained limited penetration in the United States industrial market due primarily to low cost-effectiveness and a lack of incentive for research and development. In recent years, the technology has become relevant to the modern economy due to greater focus on carbon reduction by way of electrification. The primary goals for this market assessment were to identify and evaluate best candidates for moderate- to high-temperature heat pump applications and determine steps needed to establish market adoption of these technologies.</p> 2025-11-17T16:18:56Z https://mn.gov/commerce/energy/policy-data-reports/index.jsp?id=17-713287 <p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The “Right-sizing Water Distribution Pipes and Water Heating Systems to Save Energy and Reduce Building Costs” project provided data to inform a code change proposal to adopt an alternative approach for estimating peak flow rates in new residential buildings in Minnesota using the 2024 Uniform Plumbing Code (UPC) Appendix M “Peak Water Demand Calculator” (also referred to as the WDC).</p> <p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><a href="https://mn.gov/commerce-stat/energy/data-reports/240727_2050_partners_card-right_sizing_dis_final_report_ada.pdf">Report (.pdf)</a></p> 2025-11-13T16:48:30Z https://mn.gov/commerce/energy/policy-data-reports/index.jsp?id=17-712769 <p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">As part of this Conservation Applied Research and Development study, Cadmus conducted economic impact and benefit/cost analyses to quantify the net economic impacts of ECO investments made from 2018 through 2023.</p>