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Calif. wants third of its power renewable by 2020
AP via SFGate ^ | 9/23/10 | JASON DEAREN, Associated Press Writer

Posted on 09/23/2010 6:12:02 PM PDT by SmithL

San Francisco (AP) The state with some of the nation's most ambitious clean energy standards went even further Thursday: Regulators approved new regulations requiring utilities to draw a third of their power from alternative energy sources such as wind, solar and geothermal in 10 years.

California already is pushing utilities to reach a 20-percent-renewable standard by next year, which has been a struggle to accomplish. Toughening the rules could prompt regulators across the country to do the same, but some consumers fret that they will end up paying for the changes in the form of higher utility bills.

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At a time when nearly one-eighth of the state's work force is jobless, some want California to dial back, not bolster, its leading-edge air pollution rules.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: ab32; california; carb; globalwarminghoax; powergrab; sb1368; yourtaxdollarsatwork
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1 posted on 09/23/2010 6:12:04 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

It sounds good on paper, but it’s probably unfeasible.


2 posted on 09/23/2010 6:14:15 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Obama's more worried about Israelis building houses than he is about Islamists building atomic bombs)
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To: SmithL

“California wants rolling blackouts by 2020.”


3 posted on 09/23/2010 6:15:39 PM PDT by CarWashMan
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To: SmithL

Is it any wonder we see requests from SoCalEdison for rate increases on a virtual monthly basis.


4 posted on 09/23/2010 6:15:39 PM PDT by Czar (NRA Life Member)
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To: SmithL

Sounds like an oxymoron ... you can’t renew energy. Physics says you can’t. Once you transform energy, i.e. give up heat when it’s transformed, you can’t get it back. Burn coal to produce electricity, you can’t use its remains for energy ... unless I’m totally missing something here ....


5 posted on 09/23/2010 6:16:53 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Give Kids An Education, Take Them Out Of Government Schools" - and I'm still Molly Norris")
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To: SmithL
but some consumers fret that they will end up paying for the changes in the form of higher utility bills.

"Some" consumers "fret"? Fret?

People wonder where the Tea Party anger comes from.

6 posted on 09/23/2010 6:18:02 PM PDT by denydenydeny ("Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." Thomas Mann)
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To: SmithL

They can do it, by means of forced blackouts. I wonder if they will.

Generator sales will skyrocket. Well, if generators aren’t made illegal.

If they are, I would expect a boom in conversion accessories to let you power your house using your car/truck electrical system.


7 posted on 09/23/2010 6:18:07 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: Clintonfatigued
It sounds good on paper, but it’s probably unfeasible.

Why is "unfeasible" relevant? California has passed hundreds of unfeasible mandates over the past three decades. Other than driving business and private jobs out of the state, producing absurd housing prices followed by the bottom falling out of the market and runaway unemployment, and producing a massive deficit that they cannot fix, what harm has it done so far?

8 posted on 09/23/2010 6:19:13 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: SmithL

The only way that will happen is to reduce available power the point that renewable power then equals 1/3 of the total.

Otherwise, ain’t gonna happen.


9 posted on 09/23/2010 6:21:33 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: SmithL

Oh yeah.

How is California’s boycott of Arizona electric power coming along?

Maybe that’s where they got the idea.


10 posted on 09/23/2010 6:23:35 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate: Republicans freed the slaves Month.)
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Got to be bad in CA and getting worse, someone who I thought would never leave even though from what I have heard he is as conservative as us...

Rumors are Burt Rutan Retiring and moving to Idaho or something, bye bye Mojave...

11 posted on 09/23/2010 6:27:43 PM PDT by taildragger ((Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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To: SmithL
lol

good luck with that!

they could cover every square inch on the state with solar panels and they couldn't generate 1/3 of their power.

12 posted on 09/23/2010 6:29:34 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Epic Fail)
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To: SkyDancer

Well, when the sun evaporates the water it goes back up and falls down as rain or snow. Then it gets captured and operates a bunch of huge turbines.....Oh wait...

You can’t have hydroelectric power, somehow it’s not “green”


13 posted on 09/23/2010 6:30:02 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate: Republicans freed the slaves Month.)
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To: SmithL

I want a pony.


14 posted on 09/23/2010 6:31:19 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (+)
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To: SmithL

Well then, issue a decree. If they can dream it, I’m sure a decree will make it so, without having to worry about little things like reality or economic viability getting in the way.


15 posted on 09/23/2010 6:32:30 PM PDT by MCH
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To: SmithL

LOL, good for California!
Heheheheh..

(Will the last civilized human being leaving California please turn out the light?)


16 posted on 09/23/2010 6:32:33 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: SmithL

Why not 100%? bicycles and walking are healthy. No matter that 95% of your taxpayers will not be able to make it to work...Count on us, the solvent state to bail your asses out...//not! ESAD california.


17 posted on 09/23/2010 6:33:46 PM PDT by richardtavor (One of the rare establishment Republicans backed by the "Tea Party" movement that wants limited gove)
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To: Clintonfatigued

No probably about it..if they used 100% of your tax dollars, the best they could do is to increase their contribution by 3%...


18 posted on 09/23/2010 6:35:02 PM PDT by richardtavor (One of the rare establishment Republicans backed by the "Tea Party" movement that wants limited gove)
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To: richardtavor

King Canute redux


19 posted on 09/23/2010 6:36:47 PM PDT by spokeshave (Islamics and Democrats unite to cut off Adam Smith's invisible hand)
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To: SmithL
We need to identify and destroy every one of these shadow agencies that are so adept at levying all sorts of fees and charges on property tax and utility bills, without a vote. All run by unelected bureaucrats and staffs unaccountable to the people paying the bills. The politicians love these agencies because they can hide their liberal statist agendas from the voters.

I think this might be a good project for the Tea Party after the upcoming elections.

20 posted on 09/23/2010 6:37:30 PM PDT by Czar (NRA Life Member)
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