Posted on 02/21/2013 2:34:33 PM PST by TurboZamboni
Minnesota should have a mandate for using solar energy similar to the one it has for using renewable wind energy, say backers of a pair of bills to be filed Thursday in the State Legislature. The bills would require the state's utilities to produce 10 percent of electricity from solar energy by 2030. A solar standard would raise present utility rates by 1 percent per year, starting with the first year, and be borne by ratepayers, its backers said in a news conference at the State Capitol Wednesday, Feb. 20. But legislators sponsoring the Solar Energy Jobs Act emphasized it as a jobs bill, saying it will create 2,000 jobs in its first year alone, based on analysis using software from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. State Rep. Will Morgan, DFL-Burnsville, and the author of the House version, said a solar energy standard also could attract more than $230 million in investments in its first year
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And dams work every day, all day.
What they don’t produce is subsidies which is the only reason these energy companies are really interested in.
We could stand to lift the great lakes directional drilling ban as well. Michigan sits on an ocean of natural gas.
Solar Co. in Virginia, Minn. Misses State Loan Payments
http://kstp.com/news/stories/S2940092.shtml?cat=1
oh well, it’s only ‘free’ money from taxpayers.
The House just passed (422 to 0) H.R. 267: “AN ACT To improve hydropower, and for other purposes.”
Write your Senators abour it, makes it easier for small dams to be developed.
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