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Dear Board members,

As a physicist and concerned California resident I am writing to
express support the objective of increasing Renewable Portfolio
Standards (RPS) requirement to 33 percent by 2020. The science
community is in general agreement that much more can be done to
increase renewables in our energy portfolio, though significant
breakthroughs await more dedicated Federal funds and coherent
policies. I wish to inject that conservation is really the goal
for the energy sector, being much more cost effective. It may be
worthwhile to set a standard that achieves 33% or more, but allows
for some fraction to be derived from conservation. Californians
have demonstrated remarkable resourcefulness in their approach to
energy conservation and surely additional inefficiencies can be
overcome through intelligent conservation planning.

Dr. Stephen Asztalos
Oakland, CA