Poll: Westerners Will Pony Up for Renewable Energy

By Courtney Lowery, 8-28-08

	Caption: Wind turbines stand still before the sun rises at the Judith Gap Energy Center near Harlowton, Montana. Photo by Alexia Beckerling

Sixty-four percent of likely voters polled in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada say they’re willing to pay higher energy bills if their energy is coming from renewable resources.

The Mason-Dixon poll, taken earlier this month, was commissioned by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the Denver Post and the Salt Lake Tribune. Of the 2,400 people polled, 64 percent said they would rather pay more for solar and wind energy than lean on energy from fossil fuels. Twenty-five percent said they wouldn’t pay more for renewables and 6 percent said they weren’t sure.

More from the Review-Journal here.

But while the will may be there, the transmission for renewables may not be. A story in the New York Times today details that sticky issue of once the power is generated, how do we get it from A to B?