Sentences with phrase «one's renewable portfolio»

Among the options receiving attention are various types of renewable portfolio standards, also known as renewable electricity standards or clean energy standards, depending upon their specific design.

Adopt a national renewable portfolio standard requiring 20 percent of electricity to be generated from renewable energy sources by 2020, and 30 percent by 2030.

Thirty - four states have adopted renewable portfolio standards to produce a larger share of their electricity from renewable sources over the next decade or so.

Suppose there are mandates to build wind, perhaps through renewables portfolio standards.

In a number of states, too, utilities have met or are close to meeting their renewable energy requirements under renewable portfolio standard laws.

You mention renewable portfolio standards but don't mention a «clean energy standard» — which appears to have wider potential appeal given that it includes nuclear power and natural gas.

A solar carve out is a requirement within an overall renewable portfolio standard that a certain percentage of the utility companies requirement to buy power from renewable sources must come from solar power specifically.

He stopped short of supporting a national renewable portfolio standard.

More than half the states have renewable portfolio standards in place requiring certain and growing percentages of electricity to come from specified sources.

Wang, Hongbo (2014): Do Mandatory U.S. State Renewable Portfolio Standards Increase Electricity Prices?

In an attempt to answer this fundamental question, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory published a survey of estimates from the state regulatory agencies and utilities entitled A Survey of State - Level Costs and Benefits of Renewable Portfolio Standards.

For 2014, Alec plans to promote a suite of model bills and resolutions aimed at blocking Barack Obama from cutting greenhouse gas emissions, and state governments from promoting the expansion of wind and solar power through regulations known as Renewable Portfolio Standards.

Harwood says DTE has a long - term plan to go beyond a 15 percent renewable portfolio in order to meet the company's goal of reducing carbon emissions

Furthermore, the Sierra SunTower was said to deliver up to 8.5 GWh (GigaWatt - hour) of electricity in official California Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) documentation when the actual initial estimated nameplate capacity is almost half that at 4270 MWh (4.270 GWh).

In addition, the U.S. market was developing about 1.25 gigawatts of geothermal power, and new renewable portfolio standards in states such as California and Hawaii could create opportunities for geothermal energy, the report said.

Fossil fuel interests are working through the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to repeal state clean energy mandates, called Renewable Portfolio Standards.

Differences on renewable portfolio standard Brendon Cechovic, executive director of Washington Conservation Voters, said the differences between the candidates on coal likely would become clearer after the election.

And states across the nation have enacted Renewable Portfolio Standards, RPS, that mandate rising wind and solar, and that exclude nuclear.

Currently, California utilities are not allowed to use the RECs from small (distributed generation) solar installations to count towards state - mandated Renewable Portfolio Standard solar capacity goals.

Instead, federal tax credits along with various state and local programs, including renewable portfolio standards (RPS) that require utilities to get a certain percentage of the electricity they sell from renewables, have been the main drivers of U.S. PV growth.

In a study released just hours before President Obama's speech, the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), CalCEF and the Climate Policy Initiative highlighted the interplay between state and federal policy, but also showcased how moves by states — including aggressive renewable portfolio standards (RPS) and green banks — are pushing renewable investment forward.

Here in the US the importance of state - set Renewable Portfolio Standards is declining as many jurisdictions have met or will soon exceed them.

States used renewable portfolio standards, which typically require that power providers supply an increasing percentage of renewable energy to their customers, to promote deployment of green energy.

Instead, almost all «wind farms» are being built by a few unregulated entities (such as FPLEnergy) who then sell the output to regulated utilities that are either (a) forced to buy the output by renewable portfolio standards, (b) pressured by regulators or politicians, or (c) trying to appear «environmentally concerned.»

Even more extraordinary is ALEC's push this year to repeal Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS), which require that utility companies provide a certain amount of their total energy from renewable sources like wind.

With Oregon's strengthened Renewable Portfolio Standard requirements, some sectors should see reduced greenhouse gas emissions from electricity or other energy sources.

State - level renewable portfolio standards, for example, have been a central driver for wind and solar energy, and one of the Green Chamber's business platform goals for the next year is to achieve legislative approval to raise New Mexico's standards to 30 percent by 2030, said Green Chamber CEO Allan Oliver.

Stop talking about Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS), and start talking about Greenhouse Reduction Standards (GRS).

«The commission commends the Companies» commitment to achieving the RPS [Renewable Portfolio Standard] ahead of schedule,» the regulators wrote.

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«There were not renewable portfolio standards,» Mr. Murphy said.

Back in 2007, states passed renewable portfolio standards at the same time the George W. Bush Administration was patting itself on the back for enacting the renewable fuels standard — aka the ethanol mandate.

There are no technical barriers to using 50 % renewables on California's grid, according to Laura Wisland's reading of «Investigating a Higher Renewables Portfolio Standard [RPS] in California,» a study by Energy plus Environmental Economics (E3).

Electricity suppliers, the primary purchasers of SRECs, are required to pay a Solar Alternative Compliance Payment (SACP) if they do not meet the requirements of New Jersey's Solar Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS).

Illinois municipal, rural cooperative and small investor owned utilities will not be permitted to participate in the Plan because they were not specified in enabling legislation, not included in past Renewable Portfolio Standards and did not contribute to renewable energy funds.

Other governors have pushed for the PSC to adopt more renewable energy friendly policies, including George Pataki, who urged the PSC to implement the state's first renewable portfolio standard in a 2003 State of the State address.

«Most importantly, the fact that under the NYSERDA Renewable Portfolio standards program, we will be selling renewable energy credits to the state of New York, and that contract, that was awarded earlier this year, is the largest contract awarded to a biomass facility in the history of the program,» Richardson said.

But economists generally think those mandates — dubbed Renewable Portfolio Standards or Clean Energy Standards — may not lower emissions as effectively as would imposing emissions limits directly.

The report, «Beyond Renewable Portfolio Standards: An Assessment of Regional Supply and Demand Conditions Affecting the Future of Renewable Energy in the West,» compares the cost of renewable electricity generation (without federal subsidy) from the West's most productive renewable energy resource areas — including any needed transmission and integration costs — with the cost of energy from a new natural gas - fired generator built near the customers it serves.

While Virginia's voluntary renewable portfolio standard is far from perfect, it's neither helpful nor inspiring for Mr. Cuccinelli to scrap the program altogether on behalf of a few vested dirty energy interests.

Certain grid - supply projects must receive Board approval of a designation as «connected to the distribution system» in order to receive Solar Renewable Energy Certificates (SRECs) useful in the NJ Renewable Portfolio Standard.

In the United States, where renewable portfolio standards vary from state to state, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that electricity prices broke all - time records in July 2014, and the U.S. Energy Information Administration forecasts even higher rates this winter.