Palin Hopes Alaska Will Produce 50% Renewable Energy by 2025
Articles — By forcechange on January 21, 2009 10:19 am
On Friday, Gov. Palin announced that she was setting the goal of having Alaska produce 50% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2025. Outlining this proposal was a 245 page document called “Alaska Energy: A first step toward energy independence.”
The only problem is that, as the Juneau Empire noted, “Palin and energy advisor Steven Haagenson also revealed that the plan isn’t actually a plan for action. Instead, it is a list of resources on which local communities may use to develop their own solutions. Haagenson acknowledged that was a different approach, but said they actually “avoided” developing a plan, and instead tried to develop something that would work.”
It is unclear how providing fewer details and substance is more likely to work, but that would seem consistent with her general political approach. The Empire concludes, “While the plan doesn’t provide a road map for getting to its stated goal of half the state’s power coming from renewable sources, it identifies numerous areas in which the state could develop alternative energy.”
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