{"id":4402,"date":"2012-12-10T17:28:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T00:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=4402"},"modified":"2012-12-10T17:28:23","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T00:28:23","slug":"renewable-energy-increase-will-require-use-of-more-fossil-fuels-latimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=4402","title":{"rendered":"Renewable energy increase will require use of more fossil fuels &#8211; latimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;One of the hidden costs of solar and wind power \u2014 and a problem the state is not yet prepared to meet \u2014 is that wind and solar energy must be backed up by other sources, typically gas-fired generators. As more solar and wind energy generators come online, fulfilling a legal mandate to produce one-third of California&#8217;s electricity by 2020, the demand will rise for more backup power from fossil fuel plants.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-unreliable-power-20121210,0,6250142.story\">Renewable energy increase will require use of more fossil fuels &#8211; latimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"nuan_ria_plugin\"><object id=\"plugin0\" style=\"position: absolute; z-index: 1000;\" type=\"application\/x-dgnria\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\"><param name=\"tabId\" value=\"ff-tab-12\" \/><param name=\"counter\" value=\"181\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;One of the hidden costs of solar and wind power \u2014 and a problem the state is not yet prepared to meet \u2014 is that wind and solar energy must be backed up by other sources, typically gas-fired generators. As more solar and wind energy generators come online, fulfilling a legal mandate to produce one-third [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4403,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402\/revisions\/4403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}