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Pressure on US Senate to adopt Renewable Energy Standard

“A renewable Energy Standard  would provide a down-payment on carbon reduction goals, save and create jobs, and keep America competitive,”

Coalition seeks to salvage renewable power mandate in Senate,  The Hill, By Ben Geman – 07/23/10 Environmentalists and renewable energy trade groups are pressing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to include a national renewable electricity standard, or RES, in the slimmed-down energy package heading for the floor next week.

An RES would force many utilities to supply an escalating share of their power in coming years from sources like wind, solar and biomass energy.

The groups make the case in a letter to Reid Friday that’s also backed by labor unions and power companies that have invested in renewable energy projects.

“An RES would provide a down-payment on carbon reduction goals, save and create jobs, and keep America competitive,” states the letter from the Sierra Club, the American Wind Energy Association, AES Corp. and others.

Several Senate Democrats are also pressuring Reid on a renewables standard. But such proposals, which have long been on the agenda of environmentalists and renewable energy companies, face major Senate hurdles………

Coalition seeks to salvage renewable power mandate in Senate – The Hill’s E2-Wire

July 24, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | renewable, USA | climate change, energy efficiency, global warming, renewable energy, renewables, solar, wind