Should states with RPS's roll them back due to economic conditions?
The Washington state legislature is debating a bill that would ease many of the requrements of its RPS, passed just a year ago. Other state legislatures and lobbyists surely are watching and considering whether they could do something similar.
by Denis Du Bois
March 13, 2009
March 13, 2009
WA's current renewable energy law essentially requires all new generation demand to be satisfied with renewable energy.
It was not structured that way -- it has percentage requirements with year milestones, which impacts small PUDs with no growth -- but that is what it would accomplish because the RPS is 15% and demand growth is projected to be the same.
What if the RPS were adjusted to simply require all new generation and supplemental electricity contracts to use renewable sources?
Comments
With the FED ITC, achieving any state’s RPS should be possible with utility ownership of local distributed renewable generation (solar PV).
Posted by: Bill Brobeck | April 10, 2009 09:31 PM