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Tuesday, 04/24/2012 11:58:19 AM

Tuesday, April 24, 2012 11:58:19 AM

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So many see this and soo many act on this...it's been building for decades and is ready to bust RIGHT AS WE SIT HERE

In 1999, Texas passed a modest renewable portfolio standard that was tucked into a much larger bill that deregulated the state’s electricity sector. The RPS was met four years ahead of schedule, so in 2005, Governor Perry signed a much more ambitious RPS which called for 5,880 MW of renewable generation by 2015 and 10,000 MW by 2025. Remarkably, this goal will be met over a decade ahead of schedule, as Texas has already reached 9,700 MW of installed wind capacity. According to the Environmental Defense Fund’s Jim Marston, “Wind is working so well that [Texas] doesn’t even have to continue to have mandates.”[/quote]