Low and Moderate-Income Accessible Community Solar Garden Program - 2025 Applications

During the 2023 Legislative session, the Minnesota Legislature made changes to the Community Solar Garden statute (Minn. Stat. 216B.1641), sunsetting the “Legacy” program operated by Xcel Energy and establishing a new program to be administered by the Minnesota Department of Commerce (“Department”). The Department is now accepting applications for the new Low and Moderate-Income Accessible Community Solar Garden Program (“LMI-Accessible CSG Program”). Information about the new LMI-Accessible CSG Program and the application process can be accessed on the Department’s newly updated LMI-Accessible CSG Program website. Commerce will review community solar applications in batches on a monthly basis, based on the calendar month that the application was submitted in. For example, all applications submitted by 11:59pm CT on February 28 will be considered for Batch 1. All applications submitted between 12:00am CT on March 1st and 11:59pm CT on March 31st will be considered for Batch 2.