The SB 2030 Energy Standard Is Saving the State of Minnesota $22 Million Every Year
By the ENTER team | February 11, 2021
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DESIGN DATA
In testimony last week to the Minnesota House Capital Investment Committee, architect Richard Graves, AIA, director of the University of Minnesota Center for Sustainable Building Research, detailed the estimated annual energy savings from the State of Minnesota’s Sustainable Building 2030 program. SB 2030, as it is known, is a nation-leading energy standard enacted by the Minnesota State Legislature that sets out progressively ambitious energy targets for all state-funded building projects. Graves said the 197 buildings designed to the SB 2030 standard are estimated to generate $22.1 million in annual energy savings, based on an average cost of $16.37 per mmBtu (million British thermal units).
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