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To: no1coalking who wrote (1438)	10/30/2007 11:48:26 AM
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California climate law may spur surge in renewables: CEC official San Francisco (Platts)--29Oct2007 California may need to move beyond a renewable energy portfolio standard and develop a more comprehensive approach to procuring renewable resources to meet its own climate goals, a California Environmental Protection Agency official said on Monday. Energy efficiency and renewable energy will "likely be the core" elements of the plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to comply with the state's 2006 climate law, said Daniel Pellissier at the Platts California Power Market Forum in San Francisco. The state's renewable portfolio standard "may become moot," because the climate law requires a more "rigorous and comprehensive planning regime," Pellissier said. The 2006 climate law requires the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2010. In addition, Pellissier said he believes it is reasonable to expect that electricity rates in the state could climb by as much as 40%, as a result of strategies needed to meet climate goals. The hope is that higher electricity costs will send price signals that will help moderate prices, he said. Paul Douglass, renewable portfolio standard manager for the California Public Utilities Commission, expressed similar views, saying the state needs to take a more proactive approach. Douglas said the recently California Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative will play a key role in advancing the state's renewable goals. CRETI is a statewide-effort to develop zones for siting renewable energy resources and tranmission to access them. Also at the meeting, Claire Breidenich, consultant for the Western Power Trading Forum, urged policymakers against placing a disproportionate burden on the electricity sector when it comes to GHG emissions compliance. She called on policymakers to "not go after one sector because it is the easiest to regulate."