I've said before that our federal lawmakers have failed the electricity industry by not creating and passing a comprehensive energy policy. The debate about what is needed in an energy policy continues in Washington D.C., but little comes from it. Such is the case with the Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012 (CES). On May 17, in a Senate and Natural Resources Committee hearing on the CES its attributes and flaws were debated, largely along party lines. Senator Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., the legislation's main sponsor, said it is designed to "create a market oriented standard for electric generation that stimulates clean energy, innovation and promotes a diverse set of low- and zero-carbon generation solutions in the U.S. at the lowest incremental cost to electric consumers."
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