Public Service Commission adopts Prop C rules
The Public Service Commission has adopted rules that will help keep energy production within state lines and makes the state less reliant on coal. Public Service Commission Chairman Robert Clayton says the goal is to slowly produce and use more clean energy in the state.
It’s a fairly gradual change in their portfolio, he says. Missouri law requires that by 2011, electric companies must either generate or purchase at least 2 percent of the electricity they sell from renewable sources. That percentage increases to approximately 15 percent by 2021.
The electric companies are required to meet those required percentages by either generating the electricity through the use of renewable energy sources or by purchasing renewable energy credits. Under the rules, at least 2 percent of the renewable energy must be from solar.
-JESSICA MACHETTA
