Gridtime

NYT: White House Steps Up Climate Efforts
WP: U.S. electrical grid gets $3.4 billion jolt of stimulus funding
LAT: Obama says momentum growing for climate-change legislation

NYT: California and Texas: Renewable Energy’s Odd Couple: Texas’s secret, besides strong winds and lots of land, is its lack of regulation... California, by contrast, has all but stifled wind developers. The state built several big wind farms in the 1980s — but has added very few since, because of the cost and delays of complying with stringent state environmental regulations... Such snags are a key reason California has turned to solar power. It’s more expensive than wind, but plastering rooftops of homes and businesses with panels takes up no extra land. There is still plenty of paperwork involved, but rooftop solar largely avoids regulatory snarls...

PM: Lone Star Energy: Why Texas Will Resist the Call for a Unified Grid

California State Senate: This bill establishes the smart grid policy of the state and requires the California Public Utilities Commission to determine the requirements for a smart grid deployment plan no later than July 1, 2011.

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