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Initiative for Renewable Energy & the Environment
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  • Partnerships Power a Clean Energy Future
    Partnerships Power a Clean Energy Future

    A signature program of the University of Minnesota’s INSTITUTE ON THE ENVIRONMENT, IREE seeks out the most promising new renewable energy ideas and distributes funding from Xcel Energy’s Renewable Development Fund to provide them with the resources needed to bring them to life.

    IREE Mission

    IREE is a central part of Minnesota’s renewable energy economy, mobilizing more than 400 experts around one vital mission: To promote statewide economic development, sustainable and healthy ecosystems, and national energy security through development of bio‐based and other renewable resources and processes. Learn more

    Renewable Development Fund

    During the 2003 legislative session, the Minnesota Legislature directed portions of the Xcel Energy Renewable Development Fund and Conservation Improvement Program to IREE for renewable energy research and demonstration. During the 2007 session the Minnesota state legislature reauthorized funding to IREE.  Learn more

    IREE Innovators

    Five Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment researchers give a behind-the-scenes tour of their IREE funded renewable energy research. Watch at YouTube

    PROMOTES IMPACT

    IREE communicates advancements in technology, publications in international science journals and highlights events around IREE-funded renewable energy projects.
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    SUPPORTS RESEARCH

    IREE seeks out and supports innovative renewable energy and environmental research and demonstration projects at the University of Minnesota.
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    DEVELOPS CONNECTIONS

    IREE connects researchers and their projects to business and industry, nonprofit organizations, government agencies and fellow academic researchers.
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    ADMINISTRATION
    The Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment (IREE) is a signature program of the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment.

    2011 ANNUAL REPORT
    Check out IREE's research impacts, pioneering projects, external collaborations, educational initiatives and more in the 2011 annual report.

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