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.
Americans for Prosperity, a special interest group founded and funded by the fossil fuel billionaire Koch brothers, has been busy engaging in attacks
on renewable electricity standards.
«(ii) additions of capacity made on or after January 1, 2001, or the effective commencement date of an existing applicable State
renewable electricity standard program at an existing nonhydroelectric dam, if --
He also helped
repeal renewable electricity standards, voted to allow oil and gas companies to keep their fracking mixtures secret from the public, and supported coal ash being stored in open - air pits.
Increase long - term demand for and supply of renewable energy, through a
robust Renewable Electricity Standard and Loan Guarantee programs for renewable energy projects, technology manufacturing and training.
If policymakers provide financial assistance to existing nuclear plants, they should at the same time strengthen policies such
as renewable electricity standards (RES) that stimulate the growth of low - carbon renewable energy as well as energy efficiency programs and policies.
Every kilowatt - hour of renewable energy purchased by a utility earns it a REC that applies toward renewably - sourced electricity requirements imposed by the
state Renewable Electricity Standard (RES).
We need things like
a renewable electricity standard that gradually increases the amount of clean electricity that we're using.
The report was released today as lawmakers negotiate over whether to scale back
the renewable electricity standard in the bill sponsored by Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman (D - Calif.)
There will also be a battle over
the renewable electricity standard (RES) as environmental groups and allied lawmakers call to raise the renewable - electricity goals.
The bill's major provisions would, among other things, impose a national
renewable electricity standard, overhaul federal financing for «clean energy» projects, establish a suite of efficiency measures, mandate new federal electricity - transmission siting power, and allow wider oil and gas leasing in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
Reid repeated his plans to take up a more limited energy proposal during the next six - week work period that includes a national
renewable electricity standard.
The U.S. Congress is currently considering whether to implement a national
renewable electricity standard.
«The president is opposed to mandatory caps on greenhouse gases, opposing a mandatory 10 -[mile - per - gallon] increase in cars and trucks, opposing a national
renewable electricity standard, opposing state efforts to cut emissions from cars, and pushing for new sources of dangerous pollution from liquid coal,» said Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in a statement released after the speech.
The Senate bill also contained
a Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) that included energy efficiency, but ACEEE credited no savings to this part of the bill as the maximum level of efficiency in this provision (4 % of electricity sales by 2020) was less than business - as - usual when it came to electricity efficiency, and the bill permitted states without efficiency programs to purchase efficiency credits from states that saved more than 4 % with efficiency.
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Under the agreement on a Combined Efficiency and
Renewable Electricity Standard, by 2020, utilities would be required to obtain 15 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources and demonstrate annual electricity savings of five percent from energy efficiency measures.
Savings from the bill could have been much improved by strengthening the combined efficiency and
renewable electricity standard to require utilities to reduce electricity demand by 10 % by 2020.
The Iowa Republican said that the bill may include
a renewable electricity standard as a key component, a provision which would require utility companies to generate a certain portion of their energy from renewable resources by a target date.
Grassley said that the Senate is likely to take up an energy bill, perhaps including
a renewable electricity standard, but not the controversial emissions reduction system approved last year by the House but left undone by the Senate.
This report by the Center for Data Analysis (CDA) provides a comprehensive economic analysis of what
a Renewable Electricity Standard (RES), if imposed at the federal level, would really cost Americans:
One step Australia has taken to reduce its global warming emissions is implementing a national
Renewable Electricity Standard (RES).
Australia and a National
Renewable Electricity Standard.
A Renewable Electricity Standard (RES)-- also called a Renewable Portfolio Standard — requires utility companies to obtain a certain percentage of their electricity from renewable sources.
The possible components of such an approach which would be relevant in the context of climate change include: a national
renewable electricity standard; Federal financing for clean energy projects: energy efficiency measures (building, appliance, and industrial efficiency standards; home retrofit subsidies; and smart grid standards, subsidies, and dynamic pricing policies); and new Federal electricity - transmission siting authority.
-LSB-...] CES is essentially a national
renewable electricity standard (RES), where nuclear power and so - called «clean coal» qualify to meet the RES.
One day after the election, the White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said that a national
renewable electricity standard could be an area of bipartisan energy cooperation, after President Obama had said cap - and - trade was not the only way «to skin the cat.»
A national
renewable electricity standard would mandate that a given share of an electric company's production come from renewable sources (most likely wind power), or, in the case of a «clean energy standard,» from an expanded list including nuclear and hydroelectric power.