Celebrating 20 years of community-led clean energy action

For 20 years CERTs has focused on centering people in clean energy.

We often describe our work as coming alongside communities to help them move their projects forward.

• We have worked across Minnesota on everything from biomass gasification to transportation electrification to energy bill stabilization.
   
• We have hosted countless educational forums from our early years hosting community wind events, to community solar forums in the 2010s to electric vehicles, heat pumps, and Inflation Reduction Act sessions today.
   
• We’ve helped people connect through statewide conferences, peer-to-peer networks, and ice cream socials at manufactured home parks.
   
• We have focused on projects, implementation, and deployment through models and tools, cohorts, direct assistance, and seed grants.
   
• We have built relationships and collaborations with community-based organizations, Native nations, main street businesses, utilities, and more. 

Whether we’ve known you for 20 years or just met you last week, we know it’s going to take all of us working together to seize the clean energy opportunities ahead. So, as we celebrate this year, we are excited to share more events, more stories, more seed grants, and more tools and resources to move your projects forward. We are excited to eat cupcakes – it is a CERTsiverary!

And most importantly, we’re excited to partner with you to scale up our shared efforts and build Minnesota’s clean energy future together!