North American Windpower: Clean Energy Road Map To Help California Deploy 12 GW Of Renewable Energy By 2020

Clean Energy Road Map To Help California Deploy 12 GW Of Renewable Energy By 2020

by NAW Staff Monday June 11 2012

The University of California, Berkeley's (UC Berkeley) Center for Law, Energy and the Environment has released a new report proposing policy solutions for meeting Gov. Jerry Brown's goal of deploying 12 GW of local renewable energy by 2020.

The report, titled "California's Transition to Local Renewable Energy: 12,000 Megawatts by 2020," consists of key takeaways from the July 2011 Governor's Conference on Local Renewable Energy at UC Los Angeles.

According to the Clean Coalition, the report highlights many of its recommendations for state decision-makers, including the need to take the following actions:

Clarify and prioritize the policy objectives underlying the 12 GW goal to guide the development of statewide programs and policies that affect local renewable energy development;

Improve and expand utility procurement programs for local renewable energy projects, acknowledging that current programs, left as is, will not put California on a path to success by 2020;

Catalyze a paradigm shift toward statewide policy and process integration so that distributed renewable resources and intelligent grid technologies can work together to support timely, cost-effective growth of clean local energy; and

Fundamentally reform distribution grid interconnection processes, with a focus on increasing transparency to reduce unreasonable timelines and costs, resolve jurisdictional ambiguities, and improve cost-allocation policies.

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