Clean energy will stimulate Calif. economy
Clean energy will stimulate Calif. economy
The Associated Press
12:35 p.m. June 10, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO — A University of California study has found that more aggressive use of clean energy would help the state emerge from its multibillion dollar budget deficit by creating jobs and lowering energy costs.
The study released Wednesday determined that moving California's energy consumption to renewable sources would create 500,000 jobs over the next 40 years.
The study's author, UC Berkeley economics professor David Roland-Holst, predicts aggressive state legislation to curb greenhouse gas emissions will create an enormous new clean energy market and spur innovation to better harness renewable sources.
Roland-Holst says his study is the first to use a wide-ranging economic forecasting tool to study the potential effects of clean energy on the entire California economy.
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Re: Clean energy will stimulate Calif. economy
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The study released Wednesday determined that moving California's energy consumption to renewable sources would create 500,000 jobs over the next 40 years.
Big whoop, that is only 5000 jobs a month, on the other side right now we are losing 80,000 jobs a month!!!
Wind-farm project set for Campo reservation
Wind-farm project set for Campo reservation
160 megawatts to power 104,000 homes at peak
By Onell R. Soto
Union-Tribune Staff Writer
2:00 a.m. June 11, 2009
An Indian tribe, an energy company and San Diego Gas & Electric Co. are announcing today that they are partnering to build California's second-largest wind-power project in the mountains east of San Diego.
When completed in two years, the 160-megawatt wind farm on the Campo Indian Reservation would produce more than three times the power generated by a similar project on the same reservation 60 miles east of San Diego.
That 25-turbine project, visible to motorists on Interstate 8 since its completion in 2005, is the only wind farm on an Indian reservation in the country, although more are in the works.
The location of as many as 100 new windmills on the reservation depends on the results of tests involving meteorological towers and an environmental review.
Chicago-based Invenergy will build and run the $300 million project and SDG&E will buy the power, enough for 104,000 homes at peak production. Energy production will depend on how often and how hard the wind blows.
The tribe will have an equity stake and hopes to eventually own the project, tribal Chairwoman Monique La Chappa said.
SDG&E's participation beyond buying the power is undetermined.
“We're still negotiating the final details of the terms,â€
