New delaware renewables law expanded to apply to municipals and cooperatives

摘要

A new law passed by the Delaware General Assembly which nis awaiting Governor Jack Markell’s signature would for the first ntime make municipal utilities and electric cooperatives subject nto the state’s renewable energy requirement.nCurrently the state’s only investor-owned utility, nDelmarva Power, is subject to the renewable energy portfolio nstandard. “It was a giant step because together the co-ops nand munis have one-third of the electric users in the state,” nSean Finnegan, legislative aide to Senator Harris McDowell, na Democrat and chairman of the Senate Energy and Transit nCommittee, said last week.