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Governor Schwarzenegger has 30 days to sign in Bill 32 and Bill 14 to California Law. Bill 32 increases government incentives and the size of potential solar-powered projects from 1.5 megawatts to 3 megawatts, whereas Bill 14 stipulates that Californian Utility companies must either buy from others or produce 33% of its energy from renewable resources such as solar, wind or different alternatives by 2020. For those keen on Californian politics, Californians have hoped to have sourced 20% of its electrical needs from renewable resources by 2010 but utility companies have been struggling to meet that goal. The big three utility companies in California, Pacific Gas and Electric, Edison International’s Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric, only “produced 13% of their power from renewable.” Hence why Bill 14 has come forth to help offset the 20% for next year but raise the renewable resource demand by 13%. In addition, Bill 14 would greatly reduce the reliance on out of state renewable power sources in order to localize jobs for Californians. But why take such aggressive environmental measures? Electrical energy accounts for 32% of California’s Carbon-Dioxide emissions. Furthermore, emissions from electrical energy sector have increased substantially, nearly doubling other sectors such as transportation!