{"id":1663,"date":"2009-06-10T14:35:39","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T22:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2009-06-10T14:35:39","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T22:35:39","slug":"new-report-finds-more-clean-energy-would-grow-ca-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2009\/06\/10\/new-report-finds-more-clean-energy-would-grow-ca-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"New Report Finds More Clean Energy Would Grow CA Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1672 alignright\" title=\"wind-powersm\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2009\/06\/wind-powersm.jpg\" alt=\"wind-powersm\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2009\/06\/wind-powersm.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2009\/06\/wind-powersm-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2009\/06\/wind-powersm-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2009\/06\/wind-powersm-375x281.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/>The think tank known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.next10.org\/\">Next 10<\/a> is the Voice of Eternal Optimism, when it comes to the economic potential of decarbonization. Its latest report poses the question: &#8220;Can California afford clean energy now?&#8221; You can probably guess the answer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/are.berkeley.edu\/~dwrh\/CERES_Web\/Docs\/energy%20pathways%20final%20report.pdf\">The study [PDF], <\/a>which was funded by Next 10 and authored by UC Berkeley professor David Roland-Holst and a team of researchers from the Department of Agricultural\u00a0and Resource Economics, concludes that California will face greater economic uncertainty if the state continues on a &#8220;business-as-usual&#8221; path in terms of energy. A greater investment in clean energy, the report finds, will spur sustained economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>The study analyzes five new energy scenarios\u00a0including\u00a0\u00a0three different degrees of Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS): 20 percent, 33 percent, and 50 percent as well as\u00a0a 50 percent RPS plus\u00a0energy efficiency increases of 1.0 and 1.5 percent per year.<\/p>\n<p>According to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.next10.org\/next10\/pdf\/PDF_energy\/energy_pathways_exe_report.pdf\">Executive Summary [PDF]<\/a>, the study&#8217;s most ambitious scenario, 50 percent renewable fuels and a\u00a01.5 percent efficiency increase, could generate 420,000 additional jobs with\u00a0more than\u00a0$100 billion in cumulative payrolls over 40 years (2008-2050).\u00a0\u00a0 Without the energy efficiency\u00a0 increases, however, the numbers are much lower. The report finds that\u00a0a 50 percent RPS alone would create about 60,000 new jobs, whereas 33 percent would create just half that number.<\/p>\n<p>California\u2019s current RPS is intended to increase\u00a0from 12\u00a0to\u00a020 percent by 2010.\u00a0 Last November, Governor Schwarzenegger\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gov.ca.gov\/press-release\/11073\/\">set a\u00a0target <\/a>for California\u00a0to have 33 percent of its electricity provided by renewable resources by 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The think tank known as Next 10 is the Voice of Eternal Optimism, when it comes to the economic potential of decarbonization. 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