Sentences with phrase «energy portfolio standard»

«Personally I support the renewable energy portfolio standard,» he said.

Although Pennsylvania voters agree that climate change is causing problems now — and 69 % want the state to prioritize renewable energy over fossil fuels to drive down greenhouse gas emission — legislators haven't updated the state's woefully outdated Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard for fourteen years.

Among the bills that failed were the Clean Jobs Bill (CJB)(HB 2607 / SB1485)-- a proposal that would raise efficiency standards and the state RPS — and a bill that would establish a separate clean energy portfolio standard aimed at providing extra income for Exelon's Illinois nuclear plants (HB 3293).

In that regard, I was the author of legislation that established a renewable energy portfolio standard for electric generation — that was our first effort at promoting renewables (which are carbon free).

In 2013, ALEC pushed model legislation to repeal renewable energy portfolio standards in over a dozen states, though it failed across the board.

Most of these requirements take the form of a «renewable portfolio standard» (RPS) adopted by 26 states and the District of Columbia or «alternative energy portfolio standard» (AEPS) adopted by three states, which requires a certain percentage of a utility's power plant capacity or generation to come from renewable or alternative energy sources by a given date.

Learn about the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard, including RPS Class I (formerly RPS), RPS Class II, and the Solar Carve Out I and II.

The American researchers examined rolling out the existing renewable energy portfolios standards (RPS) adopted by 29 US states across the whole country, and concluded that by 2050 the country would save hundreds of billions of dollars in health and environmental costs.

The prospect of expanding California's «Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard» beyond the 33 % required in 2030 is an idea that won't go away.

The money comes from the Renewable Energy Fund, which collects money from utility companies in the state that don't meet the state's strict Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard.

Nevada Nevada has 88 MW of EPS (Energy Portfolio Standard) Approved Contracts in Development and about 657 MW of Contracts Pending Approval by the PUCN (Public Utilities Commission of Nevada) as shown in the Nevada Utility Scale PV Projects slide.

This conclusion comes even in the face of comparing it to other solutions such as a massive adoption of compressed natural gas vehicles, pushing an economy - wide renewable energy portfolio standard, and instituting some kind of overarching cap - and - trade carbon policy.

Nevada has 88 MW of EPS (Energy Portfolio Standard) Approved Contracts in Development and about 657 MW of Contracts Pending Approval by the

Jennifer Granholm signed legislation creating a mandate called the «renewable energy portfolio standard» that requires the state to get 10 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2015.

In January, the West Virginia legislature repealed the state's Alternative and Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard, a law adopted in 2009 that was intended to diversify their fuel supply.

On April 12, lawmakers could also vote on S - 2314, which modifies the state's renewable energy portfolio standards (RPS).

This led to the creation of California's Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (RPS) in 2002, which transformed the electricity sector through the growth of new energy sources, such as solar and wind energy.

Front groups backed by utility and fossil fuel companies spread disinformation to back up legislation that freezes Ohio's Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard.

Utility and fossil fuel - funded front groups are peddling disinformation to attack Ohio's Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard (AEPS) and Energy Efficiency Resource Standard (EERS) that should not be considered credible evidence as legislators debate a bill to freeze the pro-clean technology laws.

Instead of listening to front groups, policymakers should rely on unbiased research to evaluate the impact of Ohio's Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard and Energy Efficiency Resource Standards (EERS), not fossil fuel and utility industry - backed disinformation.

Legislation that would have rolled back the state's 2007 Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (REPS), toward which energy efficiency can count, failed to pass out of either the House or Senate in May.

That evolution began in early 2008 when North Carolina enacted its first renewable energy portfolio standard, Robert Caldwell, head of distributed energy for Duke's regulated utilities, told Utility Dive.

Horner testified before the Kansas legislature on February 12 to encourage the false notion that the renewable energy portfolio standard is going to make consumer electricity bills skyrocket (again, there is no correlation between state RPS laws and electricity prices).

Last week, the Civitas Institute published a report, «North Carolina's Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard: Examining the Economic Effects» that criticizes NC's Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard, or REPS.. The NC General Assembly passed Senate Bill 3 in 2007, which included the REPS, with overwhelming support.

The Ohio House of Representatives just debated and passed another bill to rollback the state's renewable energy portfolio standard.

We've been disappointed on various levels, whether it's the slowness to change rules related to brownfields, whether it was the state assembly's refusal to vote on congestion pricing, whether it's the Public Service Commission taking a really long time to come up with the final recommendations on the energy portfolio standard proceedings (so we finally can have really ambitious and well thought out energy efficiency projects for New York City).

The bill would have raised the state's Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (RPS) to 50 % renewable energy by 2030.