Comments on: Oregon House Passes Landmark Renewable Energy Act http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/05/23/oregon-house-passes-landmark-renewable-energy-act/ Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:31:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: To Fight or Not to Fight? One Climate Activist’s Coal Dilemma « It’s Getting Hot In Here http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/05/23/oregon-house-passes-landmark-renewable-energy-act/#comment-63985 To Fight or Not to Fight? One Climate Activist’s Coal Dilemma « It’s Getting Hot In Here Mon, 19 May 2008 22:40:55 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/2007/05/23/oregon-house-passes-landmark-renewable-energy-act/#comment-63985 [...] for the region’s leading renewable energy advocacy organization for the past two years.  I helped pass the Oregon Renewable Energy Act, fight off PacifiCorp’s coal plant plans and co-founded the [...] [...] for the region’s leading renewable energy advocacy organization for the past two years.  I helped pass the Oregon Renewable Energy Act, fight off PacifiCorp’s coal plant plans and co-founded the [...]

]]> By: Jesse Jenkins http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/05/23/oregon-house-passes-landmark-renewable-energy-act/#comment-45935 Jesse Jenkins Thu, 24 May 2007 16:13:31 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/2007/05/23/oregon-house-passes-landmark-renewable-energy-act/#comment-45935 Rick, thanks for the correction. I didn't look closely (just at the date of the B-engrossed version) and thought it was the right one. Rick is correct, the C-engrossed version passed the House yesterday. I'll update the link in the post. Cheers, Jesse Rick, thanks for the correction. I didn’t look closely (just at the date of the B-engrossed version) and thought it was the right one. Rick is correct, the C-engrossed version passed the House yesterday. I’ll update the link in the post. Cheers,

Jesse

]]> By: Richard Graves http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/05/23/oregon-house-passes-landmark-renewable-energy-act/#comment-45934 Richard Graves Thu, 24 May 2007 00:58:22 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/2007/05/23/oregon-house-passes-landmark-renewable-energy-act/#comment-45934 The advantage of these bills is that they don't just drastically increase the amount of clean energy being produced, it makes the utilities leery to develop fossil-fuel technology for two major reasons. 1) When they are planning on building new energy facilities, they realize that they have to build huge amounts of Renewable Energy to comply with the law first, anyway. To change to 20-25% Renewable Energy by 2020, almost all new construction must be renewable, especially if demand is kept down through efficiency. 2) For every 4-5 Megawatts of coal they put in they would also have to put up a Megawatt of Wind, Solar, or another technology. While I applaud greatly Oregon for having the foresight to pass this truly strong renewable energy standard, we are still waiting for someone to step up and beat Minnesota's ~27.5% by 2020 Renewable Portfolio Standard! Lets start a countdown! The advantage of these bills is that they don’t just drastically increase the amount of clean energy being produced, it makes the utilities leery to develop fossil-fuel technology for two major reasons. 1) When they are planning on building new energy facilities, they realize that they have to build huge amounts of Renewable Energy to comply with the law first, anyway. To change to 20-25% Renewable Energy by 2020, almost all new construction must be renewable, especially if demand is kept down through efficiency. 2) For every 4-5 Megawatts of coal they put in they would also have to put up a Megawatt of Wind, Solar, or another technology.

While I applaud greatly Oregon for having the foresight to pass this truly strong renewable energy standard, we are still waiting for someone to step up and beat Minnesota’s ~27.5% by 2020 Renewable Portfolio Standard!

Lets start a countdown!

]]> By: Rick Adair http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/05/23/oregon-house-passes-landmark-renewable-energy-act/#comment-45933 Rick Adair Wed, 23 May 2007 23:06:46 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/2007/05/23/oregon-house-passes-landmark-renewable-energy-act/#comment-45933 Jesse, the engrossed version that was passed in the House is version C, not B as you state above. The link to the PDF for this is, http://www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/measpdf/sb0800.dir/sb0838.c.pdf The link to the HTML version is http://www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/measures/sb0800.dir/sb0838.c.html Jesse, the engrossed version that was passed in the House is version C, not B as you state above. The link to the PDF for this is, http://www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/measpdf/sb0800.dir/sb0838.c.pdf

The link to the HTML version is http://www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/measures/sb0800.dir/sb0838.c.html

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