Pacific Gas and Electric won’t meet California’s ambitious requirement that 20 percent of its electricity come from renewable sources by 2010.
The utility get 13 percent of its power from renewables today, says PG&E's Mark Bramfitt
“We’re not going to get 20 percent of our portfolio to be renewable” by next year, Mark Bramfitt, PG&E’s principal program manager, said Thursday evening. “It’s not going to happen.”
Bramfitt addressed the shortfall during a discussion of energy efficiency at a Silicon Valley event sponsored by the Churchill Club and the German American Business Association. He said following the discussion that PG&E presently gets 13 percent of its power from renewables.
The gap is too large to close in a year, he said.
California’s renewables target is the most demanding in the nation. The state last month set a second ambitious goal: a requirement that 33 percent of its energy come from renewable sources, such as solar, wind and geothermal, by 2020.
PG&E, with 15 million customers, is not the only utility that could miss the mark. San Diego Gas and Electric gets only about 10 percent of its energy from renewables.
Posted by Mark Boslet 
