The Expanding Role of State Renewable Energy Policy

Proliferation of State Activity Has National Significance

A growing portion of U.S. states’ electricity is being provided by renewable energy, according to a report released today by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. States are using increasingly aggressive and ambitious Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) in order to spur economic development and create a reliable and diversified supply of electricity, as well as to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and conventional pollutants. As of mid 2006, 22 states and the District of Columbia have implemented an RPS; well over half of the American public now lives in a state in which an RPS is in operation.

Full Report: http://www.pewclimate.org/press_room/sub_press_room/2006_releases/rps_release.cfm