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Currently, less than 3 percent of electricity generated in the United States comes from renewable sources like wind, solar, biomass, and geothermal. The Energy Bill requires that figure to rise to 15 percent by 2020. Electricity from renewable sources does not produce global warming pollution and can be found in every region of the country. A study of a similar bill by the Energy Information Administration projects renewable generation from qualifying sources to grow nearly six-fold. Of this new renewable generation, 72 percent is projected to be from biomass, 16 percent from wind, 10 percent from solar, and 2 percent from geothermal. Reductions in CO2 emissions from the renewable electricity standard could reach 357 million tons per year below business-as-usual by 2030, equivalent to the annual emissions from 89 coal burning power plants. |
