Sentences with phrase «energy mandate»

Late yesterday the Connecticut Senate voted 29 - 3 to approve Senate Bill 9, which would restructure the state's renewable energy policies with the contradictory result of setting a relatively ambitious renewable energy mandate while dismantling one of the main policies that would enable the state to meet that mandate with in - state generation.

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«Colorado's Renewable Energy Mandate Constitutionality Challenged,» The Heartland Institute.

Our state should be working to increase the percentage of energy we get from wind, and considering California's energy mandate of 50 percent renewables by 2030 and rising zero - emission - vehicle quotas, New Mexico should be ramping up its wind export capabilities.

The result is that the two most positive provisions of the energy bill — a clean energy mandate and a tax package reining in handouts for fossil fuels and promoting clean energy — are being removed while detrimental provisions, such as a radical five-fold increase in unsustainable biofuel use, remain.

Minnesota is officially internationally famous for its foolish, failed wind energy mandate.

Instead, AFP supports a full repeal of the renewable energy mandate in Kansas.»

Under the two - year freeze the renewable energy mandate stands at just 2.5 percent.

This is more aggressive than California's renewable energy mandate of 50 % by 2030, and as such an unusual proposal by an investor - owned utility.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the New York State Public Service Commission's approval of New York's Clean Energy Standard, the most comprehensive and ambitious clean energy mandate in the state's history, to fight climate change, reduce harmful air pollution, and ensure a diverse and reliable energy supply.

The California utility has also set a goal of 55 % renewable energy by 2031, which is more aggressive than the state's current renewable energy mandate.

But due to Colorado's energy mandate that requires 30 percent of the state's electricity generation come -LSB-...]

The new bill would increase the state's renewable energy mandate to 50 % by 2030, as well as setting the ambitious solar carve - out.

The periodic increases to the end of 2029 are meant to coincide with California's 50 % - by - 2030 renewable energy mandate.

JLF's Agenda 2014 includes a section on «Renewable Energy» that recommends that the Senate repeal Bill 3, «the overarching legislation that contains the renewable energy mandate or, at the very least, repeal that portion of the bill that contains the 12.5 % renewable energy / energy efficiency mandate.»

Lee told Utility Dive the law is needed due to unique pressures on HECO, which faces a 100 % renewable energy mandate to meet by 2045 and the highest level of per - capita rooftop solar penetration of any U.S. state.

They could be had through regulations mandating more urban density, tougher home and vehicle efficiency standards, an increase in the renewable energy mandate, transmission expansion, or almost anything else, really.

The government can not ignore a clean energy mandate from the people, and it's our job as citizens, activists, organizers, parents, friends, and neighbors to work to make that mandate a reality.»

In summary, California's green energy mandate has resulted in more local air pollution, deforestation, habitat destruction, local extirpation of species, increased landslide and forest fire risk, increased soil erosion, forest soil depletion, watershed destruction, and, most ironically, increased carbon emissions.

A key aspect of Michigan energy policy is the renewable energy mandate.

The renewable energy mandate has been responsible for much of Michigan's interest in expanding wind power.

Mr. Steyer was co-chairman of the campaign to defeat Proposition 23, which would have rolled back California's clean energy mandate.

Simons was referring to Michigan's renewable energy mandate, which was passed by the Legislature and signed into law in 2008.

It's a wind energy developer based in California that could get a huge boost in about eight weeks, after California's new renewable energy mandate goes into effect.

The July 2017 draft CES calls for moving Connecticut's renewable energy mandate — today at 20 % by 2020 — up by one percentage point annually for ten years.

As the European Union's 27 countries inch closer to their combined 2020 renewable energy mandate of getting 20 percent of their total energy from renewable sources, the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) has reported that the EU is well on its way to exceeding the goal.

Illinois passed a bill to fix the state's broken renewable energy mandate, and at the end of the year Ohio Governor Kasich (R) vetoed an effort to freeze his state's renewable portfolio standard.

In August 2016, a new renewable energy mandate was passed and signed into law, requiring 1,600 MW of capacity from wind, more than double the capacity of Pilgrim (685 MW).

Clean Energy Standard: Established the most comprehensive and ambitious clean energy mandate in the state's history, requiring that 50 percent of electricity in New York come from renewable energy sources like wind and solar by 2030.

The initiative excludes nuclear from the clean energy mandate even though the Nobel Prize - winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change finds nuclear produces one - quarter of the emissions of solar.

But many Texas lawmakers assumed the small renewable energy mandate wouldn't amount to anything.

Exelon agreed to acquire enough fuel to resupply FitzPatrick and to give Entergy until next June to decide whether to use it, presumably after seeing the new clean energy mandate.

But a program of tax - free micro-zones on and near college campuses is nowhere near potent enough to overcome New York's other competitive disadvantages, which the governor has compounded with policies including opposition to natural gas pipelines, a costly renewable energy mandate, and the nation's highest minimum wage.

The NY Post is right that Cuomo's new energy mandate on renewables is both «fanciful» and expensive.

The fund's clean energy mandate is slightly different than our benchmark's «renewable energy» focus which explains ICLN's low Fit score without invalidating its approach.

In this op - ed ASU energy security researcher Dr. Wesley Herche demonstrates that for all the talk of renewable energy raising customer rates, there is no correlation between utility rates and ambitious state - level renewable energy mandates.

Oil companies are investing in biofuels to meet alternative - energy mandates.

Renewable energy mandates are disasters because wind and solar are so unpredictable and so intermittent that wind and solar increase the CO2 production.

Edward Greisch wrote: «Renewable energy mandates are disasters because wind and solar are so unpredictable and so intermittent that wind and solar increase the CO2 production.»

Many states, including California, Iowa, Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas Have passed or are included in renewable energy mandates.

EG @ 31: Renewable energy mandates are disasters because wind and solar are so unpredictable and so intermittent that wind and solar increase the CO2 production.

In the most recent quarter for which we have reliable data, the largest solar markets after California were Utah, Texas and Georgia — states with weak or no renewable energy mandates, but ample sun.

With utilities in California and other states over-supplied relative to state renewable energy mandates, GTM Research and SEIA estimate that voluntary procurement will continue to be the primary driver of new demand, driving 1/3 of large - scale PV demand.

Seitz also spoke on a panel on «Renewable energy mandates reform» at ALEC's 2015 Annual Meeting, which was sponsored by AEP, Duke Energy, and ExxonMobil.

And last year, Dynegy favored continuing the freeze in testimony before the Energy Mandates Study Committee.

After an initial build - out in states with strong renewable energy mandates including California, New Jersey and Massachusetts, solar is coming to sun - drenched «red» states in a big way.

While the industry predicts a clean - energy bonanza from the West Coast's steady and powerful breezes that may go a long way to help the state meet its ambitious clean energy mandates, reaping the wind must first overcome a whirlwind of technological, economic and political challenges.

The Ohio Energy Mandates Study Committee relied on a flawed testimony from Strata Policy, a front group with financial ties to the Koch Brothers.

And even in the American Midwest and Northeast, nuclear plants have been at very high risk of closure because they've been forced to pay an economic penalty, and an oversupplied market, resulting from federal subsidies — now a quarter century old — to wind developers, and from their exclusion from state clean energy mandates.

1ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!?? Renewable energy mandates (a.k.a. soviet style productions quotas) and «a cap» on carbon emissions (a.k.a. Soviet style energy rationing) ARE NOT «market signals»!!!! They are tools with which the government picks and chooses winners in the enrgy industry.