TX Tea-Turd Horcchs Up ALEC Hairball To Eliminate All Wind, Renewable Energy Standards
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Sanford’s bill would effectively eliminate Texas’ wind energy standards. Texas leads the nation in wind power, thanks in no small part to aggressive renewable energy targets—called a renewable portfolio standard—created in 1999. The wind industry is far ahead of most of the goals. Sanford’s House Bill 2026 would delete the renewable portfolio standard from state law as well as strip the Public Utility Commission of the authority to oversee the $82 million market in which credits for renewable energy are traded.
Supporters of wind power are blasting the bill as backwards-thinking.
“Rep. Sanford’s bill doesn’t make any sense,” said Luke Metzger, director of Environment Texas. “Renewable energy has been a huge success story in Texas. We shouldn’t take the wind out of the sails of an industry that’s creating jobs, reducing pollution and saving water.”
It’s not clear if eliminating the wind standard would have an immediate impact on the Texas wind industry. The goal is to have 5,880 megawatts of renewable energy installed by 2015 and 10,000 megawatts of installed by 2025. Right now, there are over 12,000 MWs of wind in Texas. However, environmentalists and the industry would like to see the RPS updated at some point, especially to include solar, geothermal and biomass. Non-wind renewable energy is already contemplated in the law, but the Texas Public Utility Commission has been resistant to implementing it.
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http://www.texasobserver.org/tea-party-legislator-wants-to-eliminate-texas-wind-energy-standard/
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I guess you can't have wind power interfering with those oil baron profits, no can you? 
