The Michigan Senate recently passed three bills that enforce aggressive green energy policies for the state and its electric power providers.
The bills, passed along party lines in the Democrat-controlled Senate, impose strict carbon-dioxide emission reduction goals on the state energy grid. SB 271 requires energy companies to meet deadlines for transitioning to renewables. They are required to generate half of all energy with renewables by 2030, 80 percent by 2035, and 100 percent by 2040. Last minute changes to the bill allowed new, but not existing, nuclear power plants to count toward the bill’s goals.
Natural gas is also allowed as long as power plants using it for fuel install carbon capture and storage technologies, removing 90 percent of the carbon dioxide produced.
SB 273 requires energy providers to create energy waste reduction plans, which are intended to “influence” or force “changes in customers’ consumption patterns.” The Michigan Public Service […]
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