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Ballot Initiative 937 (official name Initiative measure no. 937, known as I-937) is a clean energy initiative passed in the US state of Washington, appearing on the ballot in the November 2006 elections. It passed with 52 percent of the vote.[2]
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Source: Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections[1] |
The initiative requires large utilities to obtain 15% of their electricity from new renewable resources such as solar and wind (but excluding hydro) by 2020 with incremental steps of 3% by 2012 and 9% by 2016. It also requires that utilities undertake all cost-effective energy conservation.[3]
Similar legislation has been enacted in at least 20 other states including the following. (The table is sorted by date and then by descending percentage. I-937 is included in bold.)
State | Name | Enacted | Percentage | By | Comments/Source |
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Maine | 30% | 2000 | |||
Arizona | 1.1% | 2007 | |||
Massachusetts | 4% | 2009 | |||
Connecticut | 10% | 2010 | |||
Iowa | ~10% | 2010 | |||
New Mexico | 10% | 2011 | |||
New York | 24% | 2013 | |||
Nevada | 20% | 2015 | |||
Minnesota | 19% | 2015 | |||
Montana | 15% | 2015 | |||
Colorado | Amendment 37 | 2004 | 10% | 2015 | First ballot initiative[4] |
Texas | ~4.2% | 2015 | 5.88 GW | ||
California | 20% | 2017 | |||
Rhode Island | 16% | 2019 | |||
Delaware | 10% | 2019 | |||
Maryland | 7.5% | 2019 | |||
New Jersey | 22.5% | 2020 | |||
Hawaii | 20% | 2020 | |||
Washington | I-937 | 15% | 2020 | ||
Washington, D.C. | 11% | 2022 | |||
Pennsylvania | 8% | 2020 |
Unless indicated otherwise, data are from [5]
Supporters included the following:[6]
Opponents included many small co-op electrical providers (even though the initiative affects only utilities with greater than 25,000 customers) as well as the following:[7]
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