Congressman Anthony Weiner [1] is making a call for more renewable energy plants by 2020. Weiner, a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, stood at City Hall, along with 252 pinwheels to represent wind turbines, to support a bill requiring utilities to generate 20% of their energy from renewable resources by 2020.

Currently, New York only generates 2% of its power usage from renewable resources like solar panels and wind turbines. By 2020, Weiner would have wind turbines and other sources of renewable energy providing 20% of the energy to power the Big Apple.

Weiner's new initiative would not just help the earth; New Yorkers would also save another kind of green. According to a press release [2] from Weiner's office, the requirements would save New Yorkers nearly $3 billion in electricity and natural gas bills, and generate $2.2 billion in new capital investments. Who knew that going green could save so much green?