House bill would require electric companies to gradually shift toward clean, renewable energy sources: NewsTarget.com

A bill introduced into the House of Representatives this year would require utility companies to generate 20 percent of their electricity from renewable sources -- such as biofuel, geothermal, solar and wind -- by the year 2020, according to a press release by the Union of Concerned Scientists.

The bill is a type of law known as a renewable portfolio standard, because it sets a minimum standard for renewable energy output with which all power companies must comply. Twenty-one states and the District of Columbia have adopted their own renewable portfolio standards, but there is no national standard to date. A renewable portfolio standard of 10 percent has passed the Senate on three separate occasions, but it has failed to become law.

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