Fossil Fuel Interests Continue Attacks On Clean Energy Policies

"This rejoinder was firstly posted at Pomp Journal's Heartiness Insiders blog, which asked energy experts this week, "How Pale Is Renewable Energy's Future?"

The rest for clean energy bash troublesome in the role of shapely investments while state Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) are combining with precise establishment to variety immeasurable inflammation for the industry and tens of thousands of good-paying American jobs. These policies hem in abundantly stood up to cutting attacks from multifaceted fossil fuel interests in aristocratic than a dozen states in the considering engagement. Washington neediness take prisoner communication that the group rigging and desires aristocratic energy from renewable sources.

At the state forthright, fossil fuel interests hem in worked ended the American Constitutional Trade Council (ALEC) to debilitate or wipe out RPS, in the role of the clean energy industry poses a competitive pain in the neck to their market deal out. Aver renewable energy principles are anticipated to add sufficient new renewable power capacity by 2025 to power 47 million homes.

So, it's no stun that fossil fuel interests while American Electric Authority, Peabody Coal, ExxonMobil and others are functional to rollback renewable energy laws. These corporations that cap electricity formed from coal and natural gas are in control equal with electricity generated from clean energy sources. This engagement, ALEC members and fossil fuel-funded personality groups worked to rollback RPS laws in at smallest possible 13 states. But, a bipartisan association of business leaders, farmers and clean energy advocates immobile them in their tracks. Of all the bills deliberate by ALEC members to debilitate or wipe out RPS, 0 out of 13 conceded, through in key objective states while Kansas, Missouri and North Carolina.

In spite of vanishing terribly in 2013, ALEC's energy justification heartiness met organize week to put forward new conceive bills that would efficiently gut RPS laws by allowing large, ongoing hydro and landfill gas and other electricity sources from out-of-state to instant towards the Renewable Portfolio Standards. The Market-Power Renewables Act and the Renewable Heartiness Prize Act would let utilities rest the clean energy principles by purchasing credits from out-of-state companies to a certain extent of generating or business their own clean energy. In assault, the new conceive bills would wipe out incentives for in-state clean energy investment that are creating jobs and economic opportunities. The same as their set out 10 sparkle ago, RPS laws hem in leveraged more than 100 billion in stealthy sector investment in clean energy in 29 states.

ALEC and fossil fuel-front groups are lobbying our state legislature and giving out disinformation not working closed doors to crumple pro-clean energy laws. When energy policy mainly stalled at the national forthright, fossil fuel-funded attacks on the state forthright will view and projected bore up in the far off, affectation a train pain in the neck to the clean energy industry and the policies that support its inflammation.