Decarbonizing California requires relying more on electricity, once it's low carbon

Decarbonizing California requires relying more on electricity, once it's low carbon

from The Energy Collective - The world's best thinkers on energy & climate by KarenStreet

A 2006 California law, Assembly Bill 32, obligates the state to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 (30% below business as usual), and to 80% below that level by 2050 (90% below business as usual). How is it to done? A team from UC, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, and elsewhere examines this challenge in the January 6, 2012 Science.