page_title: Kevin de León
section_title: Renewable energy
hierarchical_section_title: Kevin de León / California State Senate / Energy and the environment / Renewable energy
caption_attribution_description: Marsh Park Phase Two Opening
context_page_description: Kevin Alexander Leon, known professionally as Kevin de León, is an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he is a member-elect of the Los Angeles City Council, representing District 14. De León served as the 50th President pro tempore of the California State Senate from October 15, 2014 to March 21, 2018. He represented the 24th State Senate district, which encompasses Downtown and East Los Angeles, from 2014 until 2018; that year, De León ran an unsuccessful campaign against California's senior U.S. Senator, Dianne Feinstein. He represented the 22nd State Senate district from 2010 to 2014.
  A member of the California Latino Legislative Caucus, he is the first Hispanic American to hold the former position in over 130 years. Prior to his election to the California State Senate, De León served in the California State Assembly, representing the 45th State Assembly district from 2006 to 2010.
  In 2019, he announced that he will be a candidate for the Los Angeles City Council in the 14th district in 2020. He also has a teaching position at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.
context_section_description: SB 350, authored by De León and signed into law in 2015, mandates that utilities in California purchase 33% of their electricity from renewable sources by 2020 and 50% from renewable sources by 2030. According to the California Energy Commission, California is already on track to meet these goals, with 27% of energy in 2016 purchased from renewable sources.
  In 2012, he co-chaired the successful Proposition 39 campaign which closed a corporate-tax loophole and provided $2.5 billion in revenue for energy-efficiency upgrades in schools.
  De León also sponsored SB 100, which would have required the state of California to generate 50% renewable electricity by 2026 and 100% renewable electricity by 2045. The bill failed to pass in 2017 due largely to opposition from some organized labor and energy companies. In 2018, the bill passed both houses of the California State Legislature and was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown on September 10.
caption: De León in 2014
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