Jeff Bingaman: “We are now on what is called the renewable portfolio standard and the renewable electricity standard amendment. This is…”

“We are now on what is called the renewable portfolio standard and the renewable electricity standard amendment. This is an amendment I offered. Senator Domenici has now offered a second-degree amendment to it, which is really a substitute, which is really a very different piece of legislation than the amendment I offered. In each of the last three Congresses, we passed a major energy bill in the Senate. In each of those energy bills, we have included a provision to require that a certain percentage of the electricity sold by electric utilities throughout the Nation come from renewable energy sources. That is the nature of the amendment I am offering again today.”