Powering the future

A wide shot across a body of water shows a large red brick building with four tall smokestacks, a stone arch bridge, and a distant cityscape under a clear blue sky.

Cycled along a hydroelectric plant service road just below where we live, an area I’ve rarely visited. The 1903 red brick building across the river was originally a power plant for the Minneapolis streetcar system, but today it serves as the University of Minnesota’s Southeast Steam Plant. It heats nearly every building on the Minneapolis campuses and generates 20% of their electricity.

A wide shot across a body of water shows a large red brick building with four tall smokestacks, a stone arch bridge, and a distant cityscape under a clear blue sky.

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