California’s power play: Is renewable energy enough?

But first, the renewable energy has to be available as an option.

California Energy Commission member John Geesman has been warning about the availability of renewable energy for months, saying there might not be enough available for the utilities to meet a law that requires them to provide 20 percent of the power they sell from renewable sources by 2010.

The problem is twofold, he said. First, California lacks the power lines needed to transport the energy produced by the sun, wind or other renewable sources to the state’s electricity grid that powers homes and businesses. Second, most of the venture money is going to technologies that will take years, even decades, to develop.

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