Senate panel OKs bill to increase green power

And from the news this morning:

WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate may vote later this month on an energy bill that would by 2020 require that 15 percent of U.S. electricity be produced by renewable sources such as wind and solar.

The same bill would require 10 percent of federal power purchases to be produced by "green" methods by 2010.

This is the fourth time a federal "renewable portfolio standard" for electricity production has been attempted in Congress. Three times before it has passed the Senate, only to be felled by a Republican-controlled House of Representatives.