Showing posts with label electric energy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label electric energy. Show all posts

June 13, 2012

Estonia approves law to full opening of electricity market

The Estonian Riigikogu approved on Wednesday of the amendments to the electricity market law which opens up the Estonian electricity market to competition fully from January 1, 2012, LETA/Public Broadcasting reports.

The finance ministry has forecast that opening of the electricity market will increase the price of electricity by nearly 17% next year while electric energy tariff increases nearly 50%.

December 15, 2011

Governor weighs changes to Washington clean-energy law

Large utilities in Washington state will soon have to get at least part of their power from new renewable sources like wind and solar. But with a voter-mandated 2012 deadline looming, Gov. Chris Gregoire is weighing a package of changes that could expand the definition of what clean energy is.

Initiative 937 requires almost a third of the state's utilities — those with at least 25,000 customers — to ramp up to getting 15 percent of its power through wind, solar, geothermal and certain woody biomass by 2020.