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3,339 mentions for topic: Energy Policy
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Progress Energy CEO Bill Johnson argues against a federal one-size-fits-all renewable energy standard, contending that North Carolina's regional constraints (limited renewable resources, high costs) make such mandates economically unfeasible. He advocates instead for a greenhouse gas…
“The Southeast has been portrayed as a region that will face significant cost and difficulty meeting a national [renewable energy standard] due to scarce access to renewable energy resources. This assertion is simply inaccurate.”
“Utilities like to plan their world around big traditional power plants. Only when they are forced are they willing to rethink that business model.”
“The Southeast has sufficient renewable energy resources to comply with a strong RES. Developing our region's renewable energy potential and meeting an RES will actually benefit the region.”
Southern environmental groups, including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, released studies to counter arguments that a nationwide renewable electricity standard would burden Southeastern states. SACE's updated study claims the Southeast has sufficient renewable energy resources…
A new coalition of environmental groups and industry players, including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, is launching a push for national legislation establishing an energy efficiency resource standard. The standard would require electric and natural…
“is an environmental catastrophe that reveals not only the dangers of burning coal and mismanaging coal combustion waste, but also the need for federal regulation”
“Wind, solar and biomass could provide 15 percent of that standard in the near term, by 2015. We are in a position where today's technologies could create tomorrow's jobs.”
“To begin, we have abundant renewable energy resources in the Southeast, such as solar, wind and biomass, which create green-collar jobs our families can depend on”
“I feel like the pendulum is swinging very, very fast”
SACE released a report analyzing the Southeast's renewable energy potential to meet a national Renewable Energy Standard. The analysis demonstrates that utilities across eleven Southeastern states have sufficient homegrown clean energy resources to fulfill 15% of…
“We need to hold the line on 100 percent auction because it's the economically right thing to do”
The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy organized a press conference where Democratic representatives Chris Van Hollen and Lloyd Doggett advocated for a 100 percent auction of cap-and-trade emission credits, citing support from 600 U.S. economists and…
“This is a familiar refrain: The wind doesn't blow, the sun doesn't shine, and nothing grows in the Southeast. Anything that isn't building a nuclear plant or building a coal plant is pie-in-the-sky to these guys.”
“Our nation can't achieve the energy solutions we need without debating issues rationally, and it is disappointing that a utility that millions in the Carolinas rely on for electricity has officially dispensed with civil discourse.”
