| States Reach
Renewable Energy Milestone 100 MMT
Reduction by 2020
April 11, 2007
Source: Clean Edge News
The Union of
Concerned Scientists (UCS) projects that 21 states and the District of
Columbia that have adopted renewable electricity standards are on track
to reduce their global warming emissions by 108 million metric tons (MMT)
of carbon dioxide by 2020, an amount equivalent to taking 17.7 million
cars off the road. Recent increases in the amount of renewable
electricity required under existing standards in Colorado, Minnesota and
New Mexico put the states over the 100 MMT milestone.
By 2020, UCS projects the state standards will produce more than 46,000
megawatts of clean, renewable power, enough to meet the needs of 28.5
million typical homes. State renewable electricity standards are
expanding, with at least 10 more states considering adopting a
requirement or raising existing targets. The success of state renewable
energy standards is helping build momentum for a federal standard of 20
percent renewable energy by 2020. The federal standard would increase
renewable energy output nearly four times over current state standards.
To help track and compare state standards, UCS has developed a new,
one-stop resource, the Renewable Electricity Standards Toolkit, which is
available at:
http://www.ucsusa.org/res.
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