2025 ETA Status Report
Results
- In 2025, for the first time since launching, Minnesota’s Efficient Technology Accelerator* (ETA) is reporting statewide energy savings, cost-effectiveness, and emissions reductions from its efforts.
- In 2025, ETA generated $4.2 million net benefits from efficient fuel-switching measures.
- Installed measures from the ETA program are projected to deliver lifetime emissions reductions exceeding 85,000 tons of CO2, roughly equivalent to avoiding 9.6 million gallons of gasoline burned.
Highlights
Objectives
Document the savings and cost-effectiveness of ETA efforts for its initial portfolio through various market tactics, including aligning incentives, providing data to the TRM advisory committees, strengthening the market upstream of selected technologies, and more.
Scope
ETA had five initiatives in the Market Deployment phase during 2025: Residential Air Source Heat Pumps, High-Performance Windows, Luminaire-Level Lighting Controls, Next Gen Rooftop Units, and Codes and Standards Advancement.
Benefits
At the outset of the program, ETA anticipated reaching cost-effectiveness within approximately eight years of launch — current initiative results suggest that ETA is progressing toward that benchmark earlier than anticipated.
Project Summary
In 2025, Minnesota’s Efficient Technology Accelerator (ETA)* achieved a major program milestone — for the first time since launching, ETA is reporting statewide energy savings, cost-effectiveness, and emissions reductions from its efforts. ETA accelerates the deployment of emerging and innovative energy efficient technologies by working with market actors at every step of the supply chain. In addition to reporting its first quantified impacts, ETA has played a critical role in supporting Energy Conservation and Optimization (ECO) rebate programs.
* Minnesota's Efficient Technology Accelerator is a partnership funded by the state’s participating investor-owned utilities (IOUs) and consumer owned utilities (COUs), administered by the Minnesota Department of Commerce, Division of Energy Resources (DER), and implemented by Center for Energy and Environment (CEE).