AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Environmentalists and more than 80 business leaders are urging Texas officials to do more to promote more solar power in the state.
The Go Solar Texas coalition released a letter Wednesday to Gov. Rick Perry proposing ways to expand solar power capacity in the state. The group also released a report on how Texas businesses would benefit from a significant state solar program - noting that two solar businesses have already fled for states with better incentives.
The Public Utility Commission is considering a rule to require electric companies to obtain 500 megawatts of electricity from solar energy and other emerging renewable technologies by the year 2015. That's about the size of one coal-fired power plant.
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