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Oregon's renewable-energy standard in flux?
In the waning, let's-make-a-deal days of the 2009 Oregon Legislature, clean-energy advocates, utilities and industry trade groups have been wrangling over three bills that could significantly modify renewable energy legislation implemented just two years ago.
June 26, 2009
by Ted Sickinger
in The Oregonian
In the waning, let's-make-a-deal days of the 2009 Oregon Legislature, clean-energy advocates, utilities and industry trade groups have been wrangling over three bills that could significantly modify renewable energy legislation implemented just two years ago.
Depending on whose lobbyist is talking, the bills are either poised to create jobs and fast track development of emerging renewable-energy technologies or provide giveaways and preferences that would dilute the signature pieces of environmental legislation passed by lawmakers during their 2007 session.
Oregon's renewable-energy standard, passed in 2007, requires utilities to serve 25 percent of their retail demand by 2025 with electricity from newrenewable-energy... [continue via Web link]
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