JEFFERSON CITY, MO, MARCH 29 2022 - Working with stakeholder groups, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources has identified initiatives for Cycle 1 of the Missouri State Energy Planning (MoSEP) process. The energy planning process is designed to identify and address topics critical to Missouri’s current and future energy needs.

Following a series of regional meetings, the department identified stakeholder-suggested initiatives based on criteria presented by the department during the meetings. These criteria included the following: the relation of initiatives to the six statewide core values for the MoSEP process; having an initiative champion to partner with the department; being regionally relevant; consensus-based to the greatest extent possible; actionable; time-bound; and measurable.

During Cycle 1, formal stakeholder workgroups will move forward to develop summary and action reports for the following initiative topics:

  1. Streamlining solar permitting.
  2. Electric vehicle infrastructure development.
  3. Residential energy efficiency real estate valuation/energy efficiency on the real estate industry’s multiple listing service.
  4. Energy system training and installation at schools.
  5. Missouri metals and battery storage.
  6. Knowledge exchange to collect and disseminate best practices and opportunities in the energy sector.

Exploratory stakeholder workgroups will develop other initiative topics, including the following, for consideration during Cycle 2:

  1. Biofuels expansion and education.
  2. Renewable natural gas and hydrogen hub.
  3. Commercial building energy efficiency education.
  4. Combined heat and power.
  5. Industrial assessment center outreach, awareness and education.
  6. Pay As You Save® financing outreach and education.

“These initiatives reflect stakeholder feedback on how to support affordable, reliable, Missouri-made energy,” said Craig Redmon, director of the department’s Division of Energy. “We look forward to the upcoming MoSEP process workgroup discussions that will consider actionable results across Missouri.”

A list of the stakeholders and the Cycle 1 initiative list is available online at http://dnr.mo.gov/document-search/missouri-state-energy-planning-mosep-process-cycle-1-initiatives.

To participate in a specific initiative-oriented workgroup, email mostateenergyplan@dnr.mo.gov. For more information about the Missouri State Energy Planning process, visit http://dnr.mo.gov/energy/what-were-doing/mo-state-energy-planning.

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