United States: Kitzhaber’s new 10-year energy plan draft floats big ideas to reactivate green energy

Oregonian: Solar power remains only a tiny part of the energy supply picture in Oregon. For all the green energy sound and fury of the past decade -- Oregon's headlong recruitment of wind and solar companies, its controversial tax breaks, its aggressive mandates for renewable power -- change to the overall supply of electricity has been painfully slow to come. Sure, the Columbia Plateau is now draped in wind turbines. But they still supply only 3 percent of Oregon's electricity. Solar and geothermal are......

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