Speaker Atkins Appoints Assemblymember Garcia Chair of Key Select Committee on Renewables and Restoration at the Salton Sea (Imperial Valley News)
California
State Assembly Speaker Toni G. Atkins announced today her selection of key select committee chairs for the 2015-16 Regular Session and appointed
Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (D-Riverside), the
author of AB 137 that proposes 50% of electricity in California to come from renewable energy by 2030, to head the newly formed Assembly Select Committee on Renewable Energy Development and Restoration of the Salton Sea.
The Imperial Valley has more geothermal generating capacity than anywhere else in the United States. Unlike other large scale renewable energy projects, such as solar and wind, geothermal energy can be produced with minimal impact on landscape and habitat. It also provides a steady, reliable source of base load energy to the state electricity grid that is not subject to weather or seasonal fluctuations.
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