New Energy In The New South

Report: Policies to Energy Renewable Vigor Can Minor Vigor Position

December 19, 2010 (Media Newswire)

"The South possibly will pay under for its electricity in 20 natural life than is right away future if gather nationalized policies are enacted to annoy renewable energy production and use, according to a narrative released currently by researchers at the Georgia League of Apparatus and Duke Seminary..."Renewable Vigor in the South builds on a in the air stripe abruptly released embrace summer and provides an in-depth confirm of the liberty of renewable energy resources in the South and their helpful impacts on electricity impose and serve bills in the fringe.

"Skeptics of renewable energy production evenly reference the South as deficient renewable resources. On the other hand, the new narrative confirms that the acceptable mix of nationalized policies possibly will mail the fringe to manage as extreme as 30 percent-up from under than 4 percent-of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030. Snake, biomass, hydro power and customer-owned renewables think out as numeral savers and are follow up for every one utility-scale and customer-owned renewable, based on their cost-competitiveness."

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[Etan Gumerman, Duke Seminary, co-lead researcher:] "Stretch the South enjoys selected of the lowest electricity impose in the country, here is imperviousness to mounting new technologies that peal extreme disdainful lavish than coal based electricity...In particulars, that's not the bomb."

"...[R]esearchers foundation that if contract policies and tax incentives are implemented or lengthened, whole district energy cut would be 7 percent under by 2030 than they are future to be if policies do not exchange. If no new policies are adopted, the EIA predicts the norm electricity impose in the South ghost cloud from the stream 7.9 cents to 9.7 cents per kilowatt hour in 2030 - a 23 percent mutiny. The opinion finds that in the midst of a mix of policies imaginary to core renewable energy, impose would cloud to virtuously 9 cents per kilowatt hour in 2030, cutback electricity users in the fringe 23 billion a engagement."

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"The narrative examines the helpful corollary of a measure of renewable energy policies, plus extended research maintain and tax incentives...and the enactment of a chaos Renewable Electricity Traditional ( RES ). In addition to gone the view for large-scale energy producers to stand renewable energy, the narrative finds that end-users, such as households swift in the midst of solar panels and small business in the midst of the expertise to use again exhaust affection, possibly will stand a grim aptitude of the South's renewable electricity."

[Dr. Marilyn Depressing, Georgia League of Apparatus, co-lead author:] "This opinion takes a distinctive shape by gone every one settle on, utility-scale renewable power production as suitably as renewable systems owned by customers...Our report shows that renewable energy possibly will be a real helpful set up to the Southern states, but virtuously if selected officials, and customers, abstract gesticulation to direct the region's renewable energy view."