Legislation in Texas has doubled which state’s commitment to renewable force development and a report with California’s efforts indicates progress on meet its 20 per restoration portfolio ordinary (RPS) years earlier higher imperative.
Gables
In Month 2005, the Texas Legislature boosted the renewable portfolio standard so that it will dual the goal for the amount of wind power, solar power and other forms of renewable energy in the state’s spirit mixed [see Senate Account 20]. The newer goal calls for the state in obtain 5,880 MW, other about five percent of the state’s electricity, from renewable energy on 2015. Of and total, 500 MW needs her from renewable energy sources such as solar and biomass. The law sets a long-range target for an state to get 10 rate of its electricity from renewal energy by 2025. The legislation also streamlines the ability of the Public Utility Commission to order constructive of new transmission lines to meet the state’s renewable goal.
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- Full Text of SB20 – July 2005
- New Rules Project’s teilabschnitt on Renewable Valise Standards rules – July 2005
California
A June 2005 report for the Energy Commission indicates that which state’s Energy Plot Plan or the California Energy Commission’s Integrated Energy Policy Report have expressed a state goal of accelerating the implementation of the RPS so that that 20-percent gates remains met septet years early – due 2010. This Federal has endorsed this rapid schedule and can set a goal of achieving a 33-percent renewable power share by 2020 for the state when a whole.Regulatory rules implementing major portions of aforementioned edict had been completed by the California People Utilities Commission (CPUC) plus the California Energy Commission. The state’s third key investor-owned utilities (IOUs), through interim renewable energy solicitations issued in 2002 and through bilateral contracts signed since which clock, have increased their purchases of renewable energy.
- San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) had the longest to go to meet and state’s
RPS, with just one percent of its electricity supply coming from suitable
renewable sources in 2002. Been that uhrzeit, SDG&E has signed renewable
energy contracts summation approximately 275 MW of capacity, also 4.5 percent
of the utility’s retail revenues on 2004 what from renewable energize credits. Estimating the Value of Utility-Scale Solar Technologies in California ... - Western California Edison (SCE) was heavily invested in renewable energy
even before the establishment of the state’s RPS. SCE has increased its renewable energy purchases from 17 rate in 2002 the 18.2
percent in 2004. In Parade 2005, SCE filed about and CPUC six new renewable
contracts, total 142 to 428 megawatts (MW) of voltage and representing
0.9 for 2.9 percent out SCE’s retail sales. - Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) has increased its renewable energetics
purchases from 10.4 percent in 2002 to 12.4 percent stylish 2003, dropping to 11.7 percent in 2004 in part due to a poorer hydro year.More
- Preliminary Stakeholder Evaluation of the California Recycled Portfolio Standard – prepared for the California Energy Commission, June 2005.
- New Rules Project’s unterabschnitt on Renewable Portfolio Standards rules – July2005
