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Minnesota legislature agrees to imposing costly solar power mandate

The Minnesota legislature ... state utilities generate a certain amount of electricity from solar power, which is estimated to raise energy prices for state residents and businesses. The Minnesota Hou... read more

New plan would end Kansas green energy mandate for utilities

Sam Brownback was flanked by legislative leaders and ... Topeka? Electric utilities would no longer be required to produce 20 percent of their electricity from renewable resources like wind energy, an... read more

Despite Conservative Attacks, States Continue to Realize the Benefits of Renewable Energy Standards

Nonetheless, conservative attacks on state renewable energy standards are on the rise. Two conservative organizations looking to repeal state renewable energy standard policies are the Heartland Insti... read more

Other Views: Keep wind's power

Sam Brownback’s sudden lack of support for it, the renewable energy mandate ... jobs in the wind industry, provided new income to farmers and kept electricity prices in check for utility customers sin... read more

Oklahoma is ahead of schedule in renewable energy goal, officials say

More than 1,100 megawatts of wind power capacity came ... which have come under criticism by conservative policy groups for forcing utilities to install renewable capacity at the expense of consumers. ... read more

Kansas House vote saves green energy rule

Also, the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council, which counts dozens of Kansas legislators as members, has drafted model repeal legislation. But some GOP legislators from rural areas cons... read more

Energy overhaul nearing a vote by Mich. Legislature

The state’s two dominant, regulated utilities — DTE Energy and Consumers Energy — and major business interests are lobbying legislators to act now ... providers to produce 15 percent of their power fr... read more

Wind Vain

So it comes as a bit of a shock to hear Chisum gush, these days, about wind power and biofuels. After all, in recent years, conservative ... revise the rules." The legislature has also passed an effic... read more

These conservatives like renewable energy

Of the 29 states that require the use of wind, solar and other renewable power sources ... he believed Republicans opposed the mandate in principle, but the prospect of jobs is “intoxicating for a lot ... read more

Kansas Legislature Rejects Koch-Backed Effort To Chip Away At Renewable Energy Standards

(HB 2241) Even anti-tax activist Graver Norquist got in on the action, telling the state’s legislature it ought to abandon the “costly renewable energy mandate so ... Instead of Kansas utilities reach... read more

The new solar mandate: A leap forward or a step back?

Homes shaded by trees or taller buildings, as well as houses with roofs too small to accommodate a PV system, will be eligible for exceptions or alternatives to the mandate. The rule does not need to ... read more

Business interests split on energy efficiency

But the 2008 law that created them expires later this year, and some Republican legislators ... utility-led mandate opponents want the next energy law to be tied to an IRP, a process that evaluates en... read more