The green-energy mandate that has helped make North Carolina
the fourth-largest solar state would be cut short under a bill filed this week
by state House leaders.
The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio
Standard, called REPS, was the first in the Southeast when lawmakers adopted it
in 2007.
The law says utilities have to generate increasing amounts
of energy from the sun, wind and organic wastes, or from energy efficiency. It
set an ultimate green-energy target of 12.5 percent of retail sales by 2021.
