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What Is a Renewable Electricity Standard?

What is a renewable electricity standard? How would it help our economy and our environment? How difficult will it be to implement?

Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 in Cribsheets by Daniel J. Weiss

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[Editor's Note: You may have been hearing a lot of climate experts and talking heads babbling on about a renewable energy standard (RES), but…what the heck is it? CAP’s Dan Weiss breaks it down for us and explains why a RES is a key component of a green economy.]