{"id":466793,"date":"2010-03-24T14:18:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T18:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/?p=10160"},"modified":"2010-03-24T14:18:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T18:18:47","slug":"colorado-enacts-renewable-energy-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/466793","title":{"rendered":"Colorado enacts renewable energy law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10161\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 208px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10161\" title=\"Colorado_signing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Colorado_signing.jpg\" alt=\"Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter signs renewable energy law.\" width=\"198\" height=\"224\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter signs renewable energy law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>From Green Right Now Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The move to renewable energy got another boost today as Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter signed into law landmark legislation that 30 percent of the state&#8217;s electricity be generated from renewable sources by 2020, including 3 percent to be generated by local solar power.<\/p>\n<p>With Colorado&#8217;s new law, 29 states now have renewable energy requirements.\u00a0The state said its 30 percent requirement is the best in the Rocky Mountain West and among the highest nationally.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by Rep. Max Tyler and Sens. Gail Schwartz and Bruce Whitehead, the bill&#8217;s supporters expect it to create thousands of jobs and\u00a0lead to 100,000 solar rooftops over the next decade, and help protect consumers and ratepayers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday we continue to chart a new course for Colorado\u2019s New Energy Economy and America\u2019s clean energy economy,\u201d Gov. Ritter said as he signed the bill into law at SolSource Inc., a Denver-based solar installation company. \u201cColorado is giving every state and the entire nation a template for tomorrow. This is a game-changer. We are transforming the future of Colorado and our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With HB 1001 we will manufacture and install panels and turbines all over Colorado to capture free energy,\u201d Rep. Tyler said in a statement. \u201cThe sun will always shine for free, the winds will always blow for free, and our energy production will be cleaner. Renewable energy, green jobs, and a cleaner future &#8212; what&#8217;s not to like?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter signs renewable energy law. From Green Right Now Reports The move to renewable energy got another boost today as Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter signed into law landmark legislation that 30 percent of the state&#8217;s electricity be generated from renewable sources by 2020, including 3 percent to be generated by local solar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}