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Saturday, June 12, 2010

Colorado Energy Effency Advances; Tennessee Lags

Outgoing Colorado governor Bill Ritter has spent his last four years in office promoting renewable energy as both a philosophy and as an economic strategy. Ritter, who had decided not to run for re-election, has signed nearly 60 pieces of clean-energy legislation since taking office in 2007. Some of the laws include offering incentives and loans to homeowners to adopt solar, increasing the percentage of power utilities must from renewables by 2020 from 20 percent to 30 percent and facilitating renewable energy financing by folding it into a home mortgage.

Tennessee has yet to make the same strides as TVA is the 800lb gorilla that drives energy reform in the Southeast and especially Tennessee

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