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Two weeks ago, I took note of a bill in the Missouri Legislature proposing a renewable energy standard for the state<\/a>. This week, a task force appointed by Baby Blunt agreed — provided, of course, that the utility companies didn’t actually have to, you know, meet the standard. From the Kansas City Star<\/a>:
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A government task force on Monday recommended the state set a goal for utility corporations to produce 10 percent of their electricity by 2020 through renewable energy sources, such as wind. <\/p>\n

But members of Gov. Matt Blunt’s Missouri Energy Task Force shied away from suggesting the target become a requirement – a move favored by some environmentalists.<\/p>\n

Task force chairman Jeff Davis, who also is chairman of the utility-regulating Missouri Public Service Commission, said requiring a certain percentage of electricity come from renewable sources likely would lead utilities to seek rate increases from consumers to cover the new costs.<\/p>\n

Instead, the panel’s recommendation calls for utilities to “make a good faith effort” to reach the 10 percent target while still providing “reliable, low-cost” electricity. The target would apply only to the state’s four investor-owned electric utilities, not those run by municipalities or cooperatives.<\/p>\n

Those investor-owned utilities – AmerenUE, Kansas City Power & Light Co., Aquila Inc. and The Empire District Electric Co. – serve more than 1.8 million customers, about 63 percent of all electricity customers statewide, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.<\/p>\n

The task force’s recommendation embraces the concepts in legislation by Sen. Chris Koster, R-Harrisonville, who said even a baby step toward encouraging more environmentally friendly energy production should be considered a success.<\/p>\n

His bill would leave it to the PSC to decide whether corporate utilities are making “a good-faith effort” toward the goal of producing 7 percent of their electricity through renewable sources by 2015 and 10 percent by 2020.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We discussed the problem with rate hikes<\/a>, particularly for the poor, last time, but I’m guessing no one thinks that a renewable standard that’s not really a renewable standard is much help to anyone — except these geniuses in Jefferson City. I’m guessing a majority of the Legislature will think this is a marvelous idea…<\/p>\n

Categories: renewable<\/a>, energy<\/a>, Missouri<\/a>, politics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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