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newsrel -- Press Release: California’s Clean Energy Future document released

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 11:33:50
Cooperation in developing 33% renewable energy requirement to be
continued over coming decade. 

New vision unveiled for California’s Clean Energy Future

Cooperation in developing 33% renewable energy requirement to be
continued over coming decade.

Other Contacts:
Susanne Garfield |sgarfiel@energy.state.ca.us
Stephanie McCorkle | mccorkle@caiso.com
Terrie Prosper | tdp@cpuc.ca.gov

SACRAMENTO - A new plan and vision for California’s energy future
was unveiled today two days in advance of the Air Resources Board
consideration of a first-in-the-nation rule requiring that a
third of our electricity come from clean, green sources by 2020. 
 

The “California’s Clean Energy Future” vision is accompanied by
an implementation plan and a roadmap. It demonstrates an
unprecedented spirit of collaboration comprised of four state
agencies and the independent power grid operator.  The joint
authors are the ARB, California Energy Commission (CEC),
California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), California
Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) and California
Independent System Operator Corporation (ISO).  The “California’s
Clean Energy Future” overview outlines how California’s energy
agencies will achieve the ambitious environmental and energy
policy goals established by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The document provides the following targets by 2020:

    * Reductions of electricity (13,200 to 18,000 gigawatt-hours)
and natural gas use (800 million therms) by 2020.
    * 5,000 megawatts of installed renewable distributed
generation statewide at the right locations on the power grid to
support reliability and provide economic value.
    * The development of at least one large-scale carbon capture
and storage generating facility in California.
    * 1,000 MW of additional storage capacity to be brought onto
the system.
    * Developing enough charging stations at home, work, and in
public areas to accommodate one million electric and hybrid
vehicles.


The document will guide the next decade of coordinated strategic
planning in the state, bringing cleaner sources of electricity
online, and supporting reinvigorated efforts to improve energy
efficiency, developing new transmission infrastructure and
ensuring the stability of the electrical grid.

Improved planning for a clean energy future will create thousands
of new jobs, diversify the state’s energy supplies and reduce air
pollution from fossil-fuel power generation.

The document calls for an integrated approach to energy issues
that have, in the past, not always been addressed in a fully
coordinated fashion. In contrast, a consensus among the agencies
drives the current effort in which a coordinated statewide
approach is key in balancing climate change mitigation, renewable
power generation and the use of advanced technologies with grid
reliability and reduced costs to consumers.

“California's energy policy must be clear and focused on meeting
our advanced efficiency and renewable energy goals,” said ARB
Chairman Mary D. Nichols. “States and nations are competing for
the green jobs, economic security and cleaner environment that
flow from increasing reliance on wind, solar and geothermal
power. By coordinating our regulations California makes itself
even more attractive to clean energy technology investors and
builders. ”

"It is wonderful to see this coordination among state agencies on
such an important issue," said CPUC President Michael R. Peevey.
"Such a coordinated approach will help make achieving our clean
energy goals easier and more transparent for consumers."

“Energy efficiency has been the bedrock of California’s energy
policy for more than three decades and the least expensive
strategy for meeting climate change goals.” said Karen Douglas,
Chairman California Energy Commission. “California’s Clean Energy
Future underscores the need to continue investing in energy
efficiency and clean technologies if California is to maintain
its leadership role as the most energy efficient and
forward-thinking state in the nation.”

“This puts us a step ahead of the monumental effort required to
attain California’s renewable energy and other environmental
objectives.  The goal is to transform the industry – a goal that
we can meet only if we work together urgently toward the same
end, with transparency and accountability. The California ISO is
a proud partner in this critically important alliance,” said
California ISO President and CEO Yakout Mansour.

A roadmap charts policy priorities, goals and milestones for the
state’s clean energy future and an implementation plan contains
the details of more than 50 newly aligned activities between the
five organizations.  

The plan covers issues such as job training and retraining for
the new clean energy economy, and planning for new electricity
generation, developing enhanced transmission and new distribution
requirements. It also looks at strategic and infrastructure
opportunities that will accommodate the influx of plug-in hybrid
and all-electric cars, and investment in research and development
for new technologies related to generation and distribution.

On a more technical level, the documents greatly elevate the
PUC’s long-term electricity procurement planning with the ISO’s
annual transmission planning efforts and the Energy Commission’s
regular forecasts of statewide energy demand. All the agencies
plan to review and revise their individual recommended strategies
and specific targets on a biennial basis following the energy
commission’s forecast updates of projected electricity demand.

The documents were inspired by the close working relationships
developed among the agencies since 2006 while coordinating on
electricity and energy-related measures for implementing AB 32.
This was followed by an even more intensive period of
collaboration following the Governor’s Executive Order in
September, 2009 (S-21-09) requiring the state’s utilities to
increase the power they sell to be made up of at least 33 percent
clean energy.  

That collaboration produced the current proposed regulation for a
renewable electricity standard which the Air Resources Board will
consider at its September 23 meeting.

“California’s Clean Energy Future” and related documents can be
found at: http://www.climatechange.ca.gov/energy/index.html    

The Air Resources Board is a department of the California
Environmental Protection Agency. ARB's mission is to promote and
protect public health, welfare, and ecological resources through
effective reduction of air pollutants while recognizing and
considering effects on the economy. The ARB oversees all air
pollution control efforts in California to attain and maintain
health based air quality standards.

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