Green Options » big solar http://greenoptions.com/tag/big-solar Posts tagged 'big solar' Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:47:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en California PUC Votes Against Passage of Upcoming Renewable Energy Ballot Proposal http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/09/19/california-puc-votes-against-passage-of-upcoming-renewable-energy-ballot-proposal/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/09/19/california-puc-votes-against-passage-of-upcoming-renewable-energy-ballot-proposal/#comments Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:47:14 +0000 Timothy B. Hurst http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/09/19/california-puc-votes-against-passage-of-upcoming-renewable-energy-ballot-proposal/ solar arrayThe California Public Utilities Commission voted unanimously Thursday to oppose Proposition 7, the Solar and Clean Energy Act of 2008, a ballot measure that would order California utilities to procure half of their power from renewable resources by 2025. Some California pundits also refer to Proposition as “Big Solar.”

The CPUC is opposed to the measure primarily because “it would establish an excessively rigid, and potentially unworkable, structure for the further development of renewable energy in California,” the agency said in a press release. The CPUC said that the structure of the measure might in the short term hinder the state’s aggressive renewable energy goals by interfering with programs already under way.

Read more of this story »

]]> http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/09/19/california-puc-votes-against-passage-of-upcoming-renewable-energy-ballot-proposal/feed/