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The legislation codifies a renewable-energy standard, also requiriny 15 percent renewable power sources by 2016 and 20 percenyby 2020, according to a Frida release. It includes provisions for net metering and easy which let customers use power they generatwe and sell any extra back to the as wellas energy-efficiency standards for state-owned or leasex vehicles, space and equipment. “Prior to this Kansas was falling behind many other states in the production ofcleaner energy,” Parkinson said in the release. “More than two-thirda of the country had a renewable-energgy standard, and Kansas was one of only six statesa not to allownet metering.
With this we are no longer at the back of the He said the legislation will bring new more wind power and a stronger Parkinson also signed into law the omnibusbudge bill, except for a few line-item vetoes. The $7 milliom allocation for was not vetoed. The agency, whic promotes tech-based economic development, had a $12.1 million appropriatio line-item vetoed in Aprip by former Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, who had suggestecd that KTEC be rolled intothe . The agency’s controversial CEO, Tracu Taylor, . The vetoed provisions included $1.
85 million for the Kansase Public Employees’ Retirement System—school employer contributionj and a measure to prevent distributing certain moneysz to specific types of privatse familyplanning providers. Parkinson also vetoed legislation tolimitf annexation, including keeping cities from annexing more than 65 acrese of agricultural land. “The state should not take actionh that limits the ability of cities to pursuew developments that will lead toeconomic growth, especially during these difficult economidc times,” he said.