Establishes a Least Cost Procurement mandate, requiring utilities to acquire all cost-effective energy efficiency with input and review from the Energy Efficiency and Resource Management Council.
Requires that electric and gas utilities procure all cost-effective energy efficiency, which requirements the state’s PUC administers on a three-year planning cycle.
Senate Bill 2841A decoupled utility profits from utility sales volume to remove disincentives to energy efficiency and demand reduction measures.
Amends the state’s renewable portfolio standard to target 80% renewable energy by 2040 and 100% zero carbon energy by 2045.
New Jersey’s AB 3723 requires 50% of energy sold in the state come from Class I renewable resources by 2030, and Executive Order 28 directs the state to achieve 100 percent clean energy by 2050.
Grants the Public Utilities Commission wide discretion in pursuing a regulatory agenda to meet the state’s goals of reducing GHG emissions by at least 26% by 2025, 50% by 2030, and 90% by 2050 (over 2005 levels).
Forces utilities to provide 100% carbon neutral power by 2030.
Increased the ambition of the state’s Renewable Portfolio standard to target 70 percent renewable electricity by 2030 and 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2040.
In June 2015, Hawaii enacted HB 623, a law requiring all electric power to come from renewable sources by 2045.
California’s 2018 SB 100 increases the ambition of the state’s RPS target to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2045. The law puts forward interim targets of 50% renewable energy by 2026 and 60% renewable energy by 2030.