INDIANA GOES 10% CLEAN

Mitch Daniels Signs Clean Energy Standard Bill
13 May 2011 (North American Windpower)

"Gov. Mitch Daniels, R-Ind., has signed into law a voluntary clean energy portfolio standard (CPS), which sets a goal of 10% of the state's electric generation to come from clean energy sources by 2025 and incentivizes utilities to participate in the CPS…

"S.B.251 encourages investment in the state's growing wind industry as well as other forms of lower-emission energy, including solar, nuclear, clean coal and hydro…"

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"…[The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)]…praised the passage of the bill…[and called for more such policie] to create a stable business and investment environment…

"The bill [included] an amendment…[that called] for at least 50% of the qualifying energy obtained by Indiana utilities participating in the CPS to come from within the state. The House passed the amended bill on a bipartisan vote of 62-34 on April 21, and the Senate passed the bill by a 31-19 bipartisan vote on April 26."