California's Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) law requires all utilities to generate 33 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources by 2020.
The state's 10 largest publicly owned utilities (POUs) deliver approximately one-quarter of the state's electricity needs and have made significant strides in clean energy investments since the start of the RPS program. However, the degree to which these investments promoted new clean energy resources varied significantly by utility.
The UCS report, The Clean Energy Race: How Do California's Public Utilities Measure Up?, analyzes the renewable investments that each POU made towards the state’s 2010 RPS goal and how these investments have prepared them to meet the 33 percent by 2020 requirement.
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