Tim Walz (D) introduced a new clean-energy proposal Monday that would require the state’s electricity providers to go 100 percent renewable by 2050“Climate change is an existential threat. Jerry Brown (D) signed a bill last year requiring that energy providers be zero-emission by 2045, and Hawaii passed a similar plan in 2015. Minnesota’s largest electricity provider, Xcel Energy, has already planned to make all of its power generation carbon-free by 2050, according to Minnesota Public Radio. Energy providers have slammed the potential policy as overly expensive and difficult to implement. “That’s really if it can be accomplished at all.”Minnesota has already seen massive gains in renewable energy generation in recent years.

Source: Huffington Post March 05, 2019 05:48 UTC