Government Energy Policy, Business and Technology

Hurdles to Reaching 100 Percent Renewable Energy in California and Beyond

Renewable Energy World: A lot of press has been written lately related to California’s aggressive new policy to promote a 100 percent Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) by 2045. This issue has become much more relevant in light of President Trump’s recent decision to pull out of the Paris Climate agreement. Essentially, states are looking to supplant the federal government in the area of addressing global climate change.

As David Hochschild of the California Energy Commission recently stated, “California has the sixth largest economy in the world and is home to 40 million people — we’re larger in many metrics than most countries in the world. I think particularly given recent events, leadership on the renewables has shifted to the states.”

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