Renewable energy works for Montana
Montana's utilities need to aggressively invest in efficiency while continually ramping up the proportion of clean, renewable energy in their supply portfolios. Montana's RPS is the best tool we have to get the job done.
Complaints about the supposedly high costs of renewable energy by political pundits and candidates around the state are vastly misleading and need correction. In an Oct. 11 Missoulian story, Public Service Commission candidate Bill Gallagher is quoted as saying that renewable energy in Montana has raised electricity rates "without generating any real benefits." Meanwhile, PSC candidate Travis Kavulla claims that renewable energy requirements for our utilities are "going to add costs to the consumer without adding any real value for them." Let's set the record straight.
