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Solar panels at Apple's solar field in Yerington, Nevada

Bill raising renewable portfolio standard to 50 percent gets much warmer reception two years later

Supportive testimony dominated most of the hearing Tuesday on SB358, a bill by Democratic Sen. Chris Brooks that would increase the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard from the current 25 percent by 2025 mark to 50 percent by 2030. Even the handful of opponents to the bill insisted that they supported an increase to the standard and only quibbled with a portion of the methodology behind the RPS.

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