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\"\"California may not have met its goal of 20% renewable energy by 2010, but outgoing California Energy commissioner Jeffrey Byron says the state is close, and that California is on track to meet its its goal of 33%<\/a> renewable energy by 2020.<\/p>\n

“We didn’t get to the point where we’re generating 20% of our electricity by renewables, but I believe we do have, or we’re very close to having, all the contracts in place,” he said Thursday.<\/p>\n

Byron was at Stanford University on Thursday, speaking at a workshop titled, “Grid Integration of Renewables<\/a>.”
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\nAccording to Byron, the reasons for the unmet goal include the California Energy Commission not getting all the power plant siting cases through in a timely fashion, the slow pace of utility companies to enter into contracts, and the failure of some companies to complete their renewables projects.<\/p>\n

However, he said, the groundwork <\/a>is being laid for success in the future.<\/p>\n

“We do have sufficient transmission plans and projects underway to meet 33% by 2020<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Byron was joined at Stanford Thursday by an international cast of renewables experts, including\u00a0 New Mexico’s Senator Jeff Bingaman, the Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.<\/p>\n

Bingaman outlined the biggest challenges facing the growth of renewable energy at a national level.<\/p>\n

“There’s three things to keep in mind about the current Washington environment, and none of it is good news,” he said.<\/p>\n

With the 2012 election already looming in the Capitol, Bingaman said, it will be unlikely to get a bipartisan agreement to “do what we need to do.”\u00a0 Additional barriers, he said, are a “strong ideological resistance” to an active role of government in transitioning the energy economy and a a dire federal budget situtation.<\/p>\n

Bingaman said that 2\/3 of federal support to the energy economy is through the tax code, but for renewables, the number is closer to 80%.\u00a0\u00a0 However, the incentives for solar and wind are relatively short-term, he said, with the wind credit set to expire in 2012 and the solar one in 2016.<\/p>\n

“These incentives are not as effective as they could be if they were permanent or long-term,” said Bingaman.<\/p>\n

Stanford engineering professor Mark Jacobson presented his research<\/a> finding that the world already has most of the technology it needs to move to a 100% clean energy economy by 2030.\u00a0 Not only could it be done, he said, but doing so could save 3.5 million air pollution deaths per year.<\/p>\n

But, as President Obama said<\/a> in November about cap-and-trade, “There’s more than one way to skin a cat.”\u00a0 And many argue that one of the ways to skin this cat — reducing California’s emissions — is good old-fashioned energy efficiency.<\/p>\n

KQED’s Amy Standen explores<\/a> one voluntary program in California that helps homeowners save energy and money.\u00a0 Funded by untility companies such as PG&E and federal stimulus dollars, Energy Upgrade California <\/a>aims to make more than 50,000 homes across the state more energy efficient.<\/p>\n

(Amy’s radio piece first aired on Monday on KQED’s <\/a><\/em>Quest<\/a>, and it will be rebroadcast today on The California Report<\/a>.<\/em>)<\/p>\n

For more about California’s efforts to reach 33% renewables by 2020, check out our series “33×20: California’s Clean Power Countdown,<\/a>” produced in collaboration with Quest<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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