Full Title: 2011 Integrated Energy Policy Report
Author(s): California Energy Commission
Publisher(s): California Energy Commission
Publication Date: January 1, 2012
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Description (excerpt):
The 2011 Integrated Energy Policy Report provides a summary of priority energy issues currently facing California. The report provides strategies and recommendations to further the state’s goal of ensuring reliable, affordable, and environmentally responsible energy sources. Energy topics covered in the report include progress toward statewide renewable energy targets and issues facing future renewable development; efforts to increase energy efficiency in existing and new buildings; progress by utilities in achieving energy efficiency targets and potential; improving coordination among the state’s energy agencies; streamlining power plant licensing processes; results of preliminary forecasts of electricity, natural gas, and transportation fuel supply and demand; future energy infrastructure needs; the need for research and development efforts to support statewide energy policies; and issues facing California’s nuclear power plants.