2006 Washington Initiative 937

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Initiative measure no. 937
Clean Energy Initiative
Results
Choice
Votes%
Check-71-128-204-brightblue.svgYes1,042,67951.73%
Light brown x.svgNo972,74748.27%

2006 Washington initiative 937 results.svg
County results
Source: Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections [1]

Ballot Initiative 937 (official name Initiative measure no. 937, known as I-937) is a clean energy initiative passed in the US state of Washington, appearing on the ballot in the November 2006 elections. It passed with 52 percent of the vote. [2]

Contents

Content of the proposal

The initiative requires large utilities to obtain 15% of their electricity from new renewable resources such as solar and wind (but excluding hydro) by 2020 with incremental steps of 3% by 2012 and 9% by 2016. It also requires that utilities undertake all cost-effective energy conservation. [3]

Precedents

Similar legislation has been enacted in at least 20 other states including the following. (The table is sorted by date and then by descending percentage. I-937 is included in bold.)

StateNameEnactedPercentageByComments/Source
Maine 30%2000
Arizona 1.1%2007
Massachusetts 4%2009
Connecticut 10%2010
Iowa ~10%2010
New Mexico 10%2011
New York 24%2013
Nevada 20%2015
Minnesota 19%2015
Montana 15%2015
Colorado Amendment 37 200410%2015First ballot initiative [4]
Texas ~4.2%20155.88 GW
California 20%2017
Rhode Island 16%2019
Delaware 10%2019
Maryland 7.5%2019
New Jersey 22.5%2020
Hawaii 20%2020
WashingtonI-93715%2020
Washington, D.C. 11%2022
Pennsylvania 8%2020

Unless indicated otherwise, data are from [5]

Supporters

Supporters included the following: [6]

Elected officials

Civic and political organizations

Health organizations

Energy and labor

Environmental

Faith

Newspapers

Opponents

Opponents included many small co-op electrical providers (even though the initiative affects only utilities with greater than 25,000 customers) as well as the following: [7]

References

  1. "2006 Initiative General Election Results - Washington". David Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved January 12, 2024.
  2. "MSN". MSNBC . Archived from the original on November 16, 2007.
  3. Full text of Ballot Initiative 937 (.pdf)
  4. "The Colorado Renewable Energy Standard Ballot Initiative". Archived from the original on 2006-10-28. Retrieved 2006-10-26.
  5. "State Clean Energy Maps and Graphs". Archived from the original on 2006-10-28. Retrieved 2006-10-26.
  6. "Yes! On I-937". Archived from the original on 2006-11-04. Retrieved 2006-10-26.
  7. "Domain Name Renewal and web hosting from Network Solutions". Archived from the original on 2007-09-06. Retrieved 2006-10-26.