LETTER TO THE EDITOR:

Move toward clean energy

Sun, May 20, 2018 (2 a.m.)

The Renewable Portfolio Standard initiative is a modest step toward a crucial goal: protecting our health and pocketbooks by getting more of our electricity from clean resources rather than polluting and price-volatile fossil fuels.

The initiative aims to gradually increase Nevada’s renewable energy requirement (now 25 percent by 2025) to 50 percent by 2030. Given Nevada’s abundant clean resources — especially solar for homes and utility-scale solar farms, but also wind and geothermal — this will not be difficult. It’s a question of will we, not can we.

How we do it is left up to legislators and the citizens who elect them. They’ll have three years to fashion the best ways and means for realizing the initiative’s vision.

But first we have to get the initiative on the ballot, pass it this year and pass it again in 2020. Let’s all sign the initiative, and then vote “yes” in November.

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