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</div><div>=</div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Lyon, Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Kevin de León</span> wants to make environmentally friendly California even greener.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Lyon, Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A day after unveiling a plan to upend California’s cap-and-trade program, Democrats in the Senate are introducing a proposal Tuesday that calls for 100 percent of the retail electricity sold in the state to come from renewable energy sources by the end of 2045.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Lyon, Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The bill also shortens the timeline to hit interim targets along the way that became law under Senate Bill 350 in 2015. Current law dictates that 50 percent of California electricity must come from renewable sources by the end of 2030, which the proposal bumps up five years to the end of 2025.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Lyon, Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">De León, who introduced both measures, said he’s revising the goals because he underestimated the industry’s ability to make the transition to renewable energy during the last session.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Lyon, Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“I made a mistake with SB 350,” de León said Monday. “I realized that the investor-owned utilities are going to hit 50 percent by the early-to-mid 2020s without breaking a sweat. So, we should accelerate this process and demonstrate to the entire world that we can actually generate 100 percent of our electricity with clean energy and put people to work.”</p><div class="ndn_embed ndn_embedding ndn_embedContainer ndn-widget-embed-1 ndn_embedded" id="ndn-video-player-1" data-config-distributor-id="90482" data-config-width="100%" data-config-height="9/16w" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: "McClatchy Sans", Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Lyon, Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The pro tem is announcing SB 100 along side leaders of the American Wind Energy Association,<b> State Building & Construction Trades Council of California</b> and other stakeholders at 10 a.m. on a 62-acre solar power plant on the University of California, Davis campus.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Lyon, Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">WORTH REPEATING</span>: “It’s been nothing right now for the past few auctions.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Lyon, Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">- Sen. Pro Tem <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Kevin De León</span> talking about the disappointing results of the state’s recent cap-and-trade auctions during a news conference for a bill to overhaul the program.</p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 1px; height: 1px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; overflow: hidden;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article147971884.html#storylink=cpy</div><p /></div><div>===</div></div>