South Should Be More Green!!

I live here now, some fifteen years, and that's the truth, but for some reason, especially where I am and the growth in wealth here, the South stays behind in not only this but has on many issues, only catching up as others have already moved on.

South could use more wind energy, pay less

January 08, 2011 - Southern states could generate 30 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources such as wind power, solar energy and biomass by 2030 (up from four percent today) while saving millions of dollars.

Southern states could generate 30 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources such as wind power, solar energy and biomass by 2030 (up from four percent today) while saving millions of dollars, according to a study, "Renewable Energy in the South," released in mid-December by researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Duke University.

“While the South enjoys some of the lowest electricity rates in the country, there is resistance to developing new technologies that seem much more costly than coal based electricity,” said Etan Gumerman of Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and a co-lead researcher on the study. “In reality, that’s not the case.”

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