Uncle Sam Wants Your Input on a Clean Energy Standard
This post was written by David Wagner.
Last week Senators Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) released a white paper soliciting input on a clean energy standard (“CES”) from a broad range of interested parties. The white paper lays out some of the key questions and potential design elements of a CES and seeks responses to six general policy questions that the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is considering in the development of a CES program. This effort builds on the 2011 State of the Union address in which President Obama urged lawmakers to establish a CES with a goal of 80 percent of the nation’s electricity to come from “clean” sources by 2035. The President emphasized that a CES would recognize electricity from not only renewable energy sources but also nuclear, coal with carbon capture and storage technology and natural gas.
Your response to the white paper is due by April 11, 2011.
