The law requires utilities to only use clean energy sources by 2040.
The bill would count the reciprocating internal combustion engines, or "RICE” generators, that replaced some coal plants as a “clean energy systems.
Republican Representative David Prestin argues relying on renewable energy alone wouldn’t work for the U.P.
“The U.P. is not conducive to renewables. The wind, the sun, the snow, everything makes renewables incredibly intermittent. It's not something that's even feasible”
The legislation was introduced last year as well. But it didn’t go anywhere.
