Tuesday, April 19, 2011

California signs aggressive renewable energy mandate



By Dana Hull @ MercuryNews
Highlighting California's central role in the cleantech economy, Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed into law an ambitious mandate that requires the state's utilities to get 33 percent of their electricity from renewable sources like geothermal, wind and solar by 2020.
The move, which gives California the most aggressive clean energy standard in the nation, is expected to create cleantech jobs up and down the state as utilities race to secure contracts with renewable energy power producers.
Down side this bill will cause though is higher electrical bill for Californians. But, California has horrible air quality so it is good they are doing something to try and change that. And, switching to alternative energy will have to happen some time so better to do it sooner rather than later.

What ya'll think?

Read the full article @ MercuryNews

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