California utility PG&E says it will meet California’s 20 percent renewables target for 2010, but on a technicality.
The state's more ambitious 33 2020 goal is going to be very demanding, says PG&E's Fong Wan
However, the more ambitious 33 percent target set for 2020 is anyone’s guess. “It’s going to be very demanding,” says Fong Wan, senior vice president energy procurement at the company. “No one really knows” if the state’s utilities will make it.
Wan said the rules governing 2010’s 20 percent target permit a utility to average the amount of energy its gets from renewable sources, such as wind and solar, for the years 2010 to 2014. So the excess PG&E expects to receive in 2013 can balanced against the deficiency in 2010.
The utility presently gets 14 percent of its power from renewable sources, but “we have signed far, far in excess of 20 percent” in future contracts, Wan said at the Dow Jones Alternative Energy Innovations conference.
“We will met the RPS,” he said, referring to the renewables portfolio standard.
The challenge facing utilities is that many renewables projects are confronted with technical, financial, siting and water-cooling hurdles.
Nevertheless, Wan in optimistic about 2020’s goal. “I plan to meet it,” he said.
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