FW: News from National SEIA re: Bush Energy Plan [RE-wrenches]

[jberdner at sma-america.com]

Wrenches:

Just received this from Les Nelson at Cal SEIA.

Thought it might be of interest to the group.

Best regards,

John Berdner

>>>>

Les received this message from National SEIA today and is forwarding
this on to you so that you are totally in-the-know about the plan.


The President's Energy Task Force report was released today.  You can
read
it here:  http://www.whitehouse.gov/energy/.

It calls for the passage of Sen. Allard's 15% tax credit for the
purchase of
residential solar products, and includes language calling on the
Secretary
of Energy to review proposed cuts to renewable energy R&D funding.  The
review is expected to lead to restoration of some or all of the cuts.

At the same time, bipartisan Congressional pressure to restore, and
increase, the R&D budget is growing.

Things look much better today than they did on April 9.

That said, the Report does not include some of the things we sought,
like
uniform national net metering and interconnection standards, or a
requirement that federal buildings utilize more renewable energy.

When SEIA representatives and other renewable advocates met with Vice
President Dick Cheney and his staff this past Tuesday, the message from
them
was that they have learned a lot about our technologies in recent weeks
and
really do see renewable energy as part of the solution to America's
energy
challenges.

We'll keep on them to make sure that their actions back up the new and
improved rhetoric.  Glenn is doing that today-- he met with Rep. Wamp
this
morning and is meeting with a top DOE official later this afternoon.

--Mike


Michael D. Paranzino
SEIA
1616 H St., NW, 8th Floor
Washington, DC 20006
301-571-2393 w
240-447-6146 m
703-997-6528 fax
mike at paranzino.com

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