California’s Renewables Portfolio Standard, or RPS, a key part of the state’s campaign to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, requires investor-owned utilities, electric service providers and community aggregators to source at least 33 percent of their power from renewable sources by 2020. The latest status report from the California Public Utilities Commission finds that utilities have met this year’s intermediate goal of serving 20 percent of their electricity with renewable energy.
While the RPS contains no specific solar goal, utilities have recognized that they will need to rely heavily on solar to get to 33 percent by 2020. For instance, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. reported that its renewables mix is currently 31 percent wind, 26 percent geothermal, 23 percent bioenergy, 19 percent small hydro and just 1 percent solar. However, in July of this year, the utility announced that it expects 40 percent of its renewables mix to come from solar by 2020.
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