State Law Favors Renewables
GreenTechMedia.com, by Justin Barnes & Chelsea Barnes, November 15, 2013
As of October, only eight states had enacted legislation to amend their RPS policies, and 2013 is now projected to go down as yet another year of overall RPS advancement. The most significant demand-side changes to RPS policies in 2013 involve new requirements and resource carve-outs in Colorado (S.B. 252), Maryland (H.B. 226) and Minnesota (H.B. 729). The collective new benchmarks likely will support more than 1,000 megawatts of additional renewables, including more than 500 megawatts of solar. Further, no supply-side RPS amendments enacted thus far in 2013 seem likely to have an immediate, significant or detrimental impact on renewables as a whole.
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