Legislation for National Renewable Electricity Standard Introduced

摘要

New Mexico's U.S. senators, Jeff Bingaman (D) and Tom Udall (D), along with Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback (R), have introduced a bill in the U.S. Senate that would create a national renewable electricity standard (RES). Bill S.3813, the Renewable Electricity Promotion Act of 2010, proposes amending the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to include a federal RES that would require electric utilities to obtain set percentages of the total quantity of electricity sold to electric consumers in a calendar year-known within the industry as "base quantity"-from renewable energy sources.