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Arizona State stops attempt to sneak nuclear power in as “renewable”

that bill was killed on Thursday after a flood of opposition

Bureaucrats Backpedal on Solar-Killing Bill Seeking Alpha , by Jeff Siegel, 28 Feb 2010, “….a new Arizona bill (House Bill 2701) that was designed to essentially kill the state’s solar industry. It was intended to allow nuclear and hydroelectric power to be included in the state’s renewable energy standard, which requires 15 percent renewables by 2025. With nuclear and hydroelectric included, there would have been zero incentive to integrate solar or any other type of clean, renewable energy.

The new bill would’ve also done away with the state’s distributed energy standard, which requires 30 percent of all renewable power produced by utilities to come from rooftop systems.

Well, it looks like that bill was killed on Thursday after a flood of opposition forced a few less-than honorable policy makers to backpedal….thankfully, enough folks were fired up enough to let these guys know that solar will not be an afterthought in the state’s energy mix.

Bureaucrats Backpedal on Solar-Killing Bill — Seeking Alpha

March 1, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, renewables, solar