Large solar arrays are likely to sprout in Minnesota after
lawmakers required Xcel and other big utilities to get 1.5% of their power from
the sun by 2020.
Minnesota’s solar industry is getting a jolt of energy.
It doesn’t sound like much — a requirement that major
utilities generate 1.5 percent of their power from the sun by 2020. That’s
roughly the output of one power plant or wind farm.
