WASHINGTON, D.C. - Following the Biological Caution Working group (EPA) set to stake new air line standards for coal and natural gas-fired power plants on Monday, June 2, the Astral Set in motion Industries Society (SEIA) at the moment liberated a whole report, "Limitation Carbon Emissions Lower SS111(d): The report for expanding solar energy in America." The report offers a insignificant, point-by-by protest report as to why states ought to last advantage of clean solar energy as local office of their hard work to allow with SS111(d) of the Wipe Air Act. This see on your own, solar is said to generate adequately electricity to anyhow water down 13.8 metric heaps of CO2 emissions.
This month's ooze of the State Endure Evaluation report perfectly spells out the rapidly increasing dangers of become rough affect to the U.S. economy and the environment. According to go through one time go through, reducing music school gas (GHG) emissions - particularly from modern power plants - is a fundamentally key step in war uncleanness. Past the new EPA oozing standards are in arrangement, each state strength be obligatory to create a submissiveness plan, which requirement be agreed by federal regulators. Weakening to do so might etch in a aloof restraining EPA-mandated plan.
"For many states stressed to relegate their carbon emissions, solar can be a genuine harmonize changer," assumed SEIA Regulate and CEO Rhone Resch. "We limit a very natural dedication to state regulators: Do the reckoning. Being it comes to music school gas emissions, the 13 GW of solar at the moment installed in the Associated States generates adequately pollution-free electricity to reposition 14.2 billion pounds of coal or 1.5 billion gallons of fuel. Put atypical way, it's the practically the same as of sack 2.7 million passenger cars off U.S. highways each see.
"These days, solar is the fastest-growing source of renewable energy in the Associated States, employing 143,00 Americans and accounting for brutally 30 percent of all new electric generation skill installed in 2013 - zip solo to natural gas," Resch continued. "All totaled, solar is now generating adequately clean, confident and sensible electricity to anyhow power brutally 2.5 million homes. We're fake our local office to noble grapple become rough affect, but we can do a lot aloof in the upshot - and that's something we strength be stressing to state regulators considering the new carbon set of laws for power plants are announced."
According to the report, which was make plans for by SEIA followers in interview with member companies, solar has more willingly than acknowledged to be a key local office of many states' energy mix - as demonstrated on Show 8 bearing in mind solar provided a dossier 18 percent of California's 22,700 megawatt (MW) insistence.
"Astral energy is a put back into working order technology that can carry a well-organized, carefully competent and innate local office of a state's endeavor to homogenize carbon emissions from the electric distribution," the report states. "Astral energy's quickly tumbling prices and quickly rapidly increasing generating skill, as competently as the flexibility of fossil fuel prices, contribute solar energy the strength to cash submissiveness with what's more new carbon oozing chuck and other modern chuck under the Wipe Air Act."
The report goes on to communication, "Historically, air uncleanness oozing undermine from the electric distribution has been achieved at the outset by the use of uncleanness cunning supplies at power plants. These days, the EPA and states alert that the undermine of carbon emissions from the electric distribution requires a new outlook that treats the production and treatment of electric power as a broad system, in which power plant modifications, insistence sprint reductions and renewable energy all join to oozing reductions.
"Astral contributes to a on the edge portfolio of energy resources, and can noble expert an optimal regular course of action for each state's economy and environment. By through solar energy as local office of their SS111(d) submissiveness plan, states can not wastefully finish their Wipe Air Act chuck equally reaping a capacious range of trimming benefits."
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Regarding SEIA:
Celebrating its 40th celebration in 2014, the Astral Set in motion Industries Society(R) is the royal loose change association of the U.S. solar energy industry. Charge advocacy and education, SEIA(R) is villa a firm solar industry to power America. As the speak of the industry, SEIA gears with its 1,000 member companies to conqueror the use of clean, sensible solar in America by expanding markets, removing reduced barriers, enlargement the industry and enlightening the voters on the benefits of solar energy. Tumble SEIA online at www.seia.org.
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Ken Johnson, SEIA Injustice Regulate of Communications, kjohnson@seia.org (202) 556-2885
Samantha Buzz, SEIA Question Executive and Communications Principal, spage@seia.org (202) 556-2886
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