Tag Archives: renewable energy standard
Renewing Colorado: How Green Energy is Working There
In six years, Colorado has diversified its electricity mix and built a thriving renewable energy industry while maintaining stable electricity bills. We have seen the cost of renewable energy credits for large photovoltaic solar projects decline by 75 percent, and wind in Colorado is now a least-cost energy resource. Continue reading
New Missouri Renewable Energy Proposal Submitted
by Chris Blank for The Kansas City Star A supporter of a voter-approved law that demands Missouri utilities use more renewable energy filed a proposal Friday for a new requirement after the original has faced years of stumbling blocks. PJ … Continue reading
Constitution Invoked Against Renewable Law
By Bill Opalka for EnergyBiz A new front has been opened in the war on renewable energy, this time in federal court in Colorado. A group has challenged the constitutionality of a state renewable energy standard, which was passed by … Continue reading
Wind Energy Fights to Defend It’s Position as Clean Energy Alternative
…an oil and gas company trade group and think tanks financed in part with energy money are spreading misinformation to discredit wind as a renewable energy source. Continue reading
Pass Renewable Energy Standards
Federal approval last week of a cost-sharing plan for an electricity transmission line in Kansas was a key step in profiting from our state’s strong winds. Now what’s needed is for Congress to boost the market for wind energy by approving federal renewable energy standards. Continue reading
Nation Should Follow Colorado’s Lead
Colorado is now claiming national leadership in American’s transition to a new energy economy. Gov. Bill Ritter has quietly built a strong coalition including Colorado’s largest utility, Xcel Energy, to support the proposed Colorado Clean Air-Clean Jobs Act. Continue reading
Colorado Adopts 30% Clean Energy Target
Colorado has adopted a tougher Renewable Energy Standard this week, requiring 30% of its electricity to be generated from renewable sources by 2020. Continue reading
Governors’ Wind Energy Coalition Release Recommendations
Iowa Governor Chet Culver and Rhode Island Governor Donald L. Carcieri today released Great Expectations: U.S. Wind Energy Development, the Governors’ Wind Energy Coalition’s 2010 Recommendations. Governor Culver and Governor Carcieri are the chair and vice chair of the 29-state organization. Continue reading
25% US Renewable Electricity Standard Will Create 274,000 Jobs
The “Job Impacts of a National Renewable Electricity Standard” study was released by the RES Alliance for Jobs and found that a 25% by 2025 national RES would support an additional 274,000 renewable energy jobs over a no-national policy option. The 25% figure is significantly higher than RES mandate in current legislation and the expected jobs supported in the current House and Senate provisions would be considerably lower. Continue reading
Kansas Enacts Renewable Energy Standard, Permits Disputed Coal Plant
May 22, 2009 (ENS) – Today, Governor Mark Parkinson signed legislation that establishes the state’s Renewable Energy Standard and allows Kansans to generate their own power with renewable energy installations and sell back the extra electricity they produce to their utility through net metering. Continue reading
