April 8, 2011 JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — New language regarding the state’s renewable energy standards is headed for the House floor. This week, a House committee passed legislation that it hopes will allow the state’s renewable energy statute passed by voters in 2008 to go into effect. The new language requires Missouri-based utilities to make [...]
By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – A controversial measure to increase renewable energy projects in and near Missouri was stripped from the final version of the state’s new renewable energy law. The Missouri Public Service Commission on Tuesday voted 3-2 to send the voter-mandated renewable energy standards to Secretary of State [...]
Continue reading …By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Nearly two years after Missourians voted to create a renewable energy standard, the details of making the rule a reality languish in a maze of governmental rulemaking procedure. Thursday, members of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (JCAR), a legislative committee that oversees state rulemaking, [...]
Continue reading …By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – New rules are in place to help the state’s four largest electric utilities meet a 2011 deadline to increase renewable energy use. At least two percent of the electricity sold by the utilities to their customers must be generated or purchased from renewable resources by [...]
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