California Renewable Goals Challenging Utilities

摘要

While not wavering in their long-term support for more alternative energy, major California utilities including South-ern California Edison Co. (SCE) envision plenty of real-world challenges to the state's increased renewable energy goal of 33%. Reaching that goal by 2020 holds major implications for the state's transmission grid and existing fleet of natural gas-fired generation plants, according to Edison International CEO Ted Craver, who spoke earlier in November on a third quarter earnings conference call (Nov. 6).