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A New Bill Could Help to Build a Clean Energy Future in the Golden State (Hydrogen Fuel News)

Geothermal energy may be the key to California reaching its goals to lower emissions.

The California State Capitol in Sacramento

Recently, SB 1139 "California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program" was approved by the Senate Energy, Utilities and Communication Committee, and this bill would require electric utilities that are publicly owned and retail sellers of energy to obtain 500 MWe of electricity from base load geothermal energy plants by 2024.

SB 1139 was authored by Senator Ben Hueso and co-authored by Assemblymember V. Manuel Pérez. According to Hueso, the “bill is directionally important. The clean electric system of the future has to have more baseload generation. We have abundant geothermal resources in this state that are underutilized.”

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