Interior Department Plans to Double Permits For Renewable Generation by End of 2011

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The Department of the Interior intends to permit 10,000 megawatts of renewable energy generation on public lands by the end of the year, more than twice the amount approved in 2010, a senior department official said April 8. David Hayes, deputy secretary of the interior, told the American Law Institute-American Bar Association the goal is to permit "utility-scale renewable energy generation." Interior permitted 4,000 megawatts of renewable generation on public lands in 2010, the equivalent of 10 coal-fired power plants, he said.