By: Susan Kraemer Yesterday Attorney General Jerry Brown
announced a completely new kind of renewable energy legislation,
introduced by State Assembly member Nancy Skinner (D) – designed
to add more renewable energy storage to the grid. You’ve heard
of Renewable Energy Standards. These are (state level only, so
far) rules that require that electric utilities add more
renewable energy every year, in the 24 states that have them.
Using the legislation, four Northeast States have been able to
reduce their greenhouse gases on an EU scale – to below 1990
levels by contributing to the build-out of about 17 Gigawatts of
renewable energy along with neighboring Canadian provinces.
Other states, Like Michigan, are on track to do so with elegant
policy design that gets solar rooftops down to as little as
$6,000 each. Reducing greenhouse gas levels below 1990 levels
simply takes replacing the dirty 19th century energy they used
to have on the grid with more clean renewable 21st century
energy. That’s what passing Renewab