« Balance is hard, practice is good | Main | More gadgets - the best coffee press »
November 13, 2006
The best thing from the election - more renewable energy
Frequent readers will know that I had alot of disappointments in individual races last week. But Washington voters added one shining light to the whole thing by passing I-937: Climate Solutions. Washington now joins 20 other states which require over time their utilities to start purchasing more and more renewable electricity. In the Washington case, 15 percent of large utility power must come from renewables by 2020. The most important part of this legislation is in the details. Renewables liquid fuels like biodiesel and ethanol burned in existing generating assets will qualify for the mandate. This is the first time those fuels have been called out specifically in a mandate like this. This provision opens up a key option to building a bunch of new generation assets, reuse existing ones with new fuels. That will make it a whole bunch easier for utilities to comply. Heck, you can even turn a coal fired power plant into a renewable electric plant by changing the fuel. I predict this will happen in the next 5 years. You read it here first.
Posted by Martin at November 13, 2006 9:32 PM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.nwventurevoice.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/2579
Comments
Post a comment
Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out)
(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)