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a weakening of the renewable energy requirements for power companies. fyi. Peggy Miller ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Montana Audubon <[hidden email]>
Date: Apr 21, 2009 2:56 PM
Subject: Montana's Renewable Energy Standard is Under Attack!
To: [hidden email]
Greetings Peggy--
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Protect Montana’s Renewable Energy Standard! Ask for a Veto of SB 257!
Calls, emails and letters are needed to Governor Schweitzer to veto SB 257. Montana’s Renewable Energy Standard requires power companies (like Northwestern Energy) to generate a certain amount of electricity from renewable energy sources, such as new wind or solar projects. SB 257 amends this law to include existing and planned upgrades from hydroelectric dams in the definition of “eligible renewable resource.” The result? SB 257 removes all incentives for power companies to buy power from NEW renewable projects—like NEW wind farms and solar projects—because hydropower will fulfill all future renewable resource requirements.
The purpose behind Montana’s Renewable Energy Standard law is to promote the development of new renewable resources. Renewable resources that are already developed—or already planned to be developed in an upgrade—clearly do not need financial incentives.
WHAT WE ARE ASKING YOU TO DO: Please contact Governor Brian Schweitzer by Friday, April 24 and ask him to veto SB 257.
- Call the Governor’s office: (406) 444-3111
- Click here to email the Governor: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?MontanaAudubon/a20eff130b/9ed5425aba/82870ea6ec" target="_blank">http://governor.mt.gov/contact/commentsform.asp
- Fax a letter: (406) 444-5529
- Send a letter:
Governor Brian D. Schweitzer
Office of the Governor
Montana State Capitol Bldg.
P.O. Box 200801
Helena MT 59620-0801
4 GOOD REASONS TO ASK THE GOVERNOR TO VETO SB 257:
- While dam upgrades are good, and hydropower is renewable, allowing already completed and scheduled upgrades to count as a renewable resource credit will allow utilities to automatically meet and exceed the renewable energy standard with no incentive for new projects.
- SB 257 effectively destroys Montana’s Renewable Energy Standard law by allowing PPL Montana, which manages major dams in Montana, to undercut the market and get paid for selling renewable energy credits for projects that it has already built.
- The purpose of Montana’s Renewable Energy Standard law is to provide an incentive for the production of new renewable resources such as wind, solar, and geothermal. By doing this, Montana increases its use of renewable energy, and reduces its greenhouse gas emissions. This law is not intended to promote hydropower because most of Montana’s—and the nation’s—hydropower has been already been developed. We need to develop new renewable resources.
- SB 257 uses flawed accounting practices to allow upgrades to hydroelectric dams to get credit for producing renewable energy, when they don’t have to produce any new energy. This flawed accounting practice allows the first energy generated by an upgraded dam to be considered new renewable energy. Consequently, under SB 257, no additional electricity may ever be generated as the result of a hydroelectric dam’s upgrade. This same accounting practice does not benefit wind projects: the energy generated from wind companies is only counted when it is actually generated.
More on Montana Audubon priorities and all the wildlife and conservation bills we are following can be found here: <a style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?MontanaAudubon/a20eff130b/9ed5425aba/40396a41a7" target="_blank">http://mtaudubon.org/issues/act/mt.html
Thank you for your help,
Casey Perkins, Janet Ellis, and Amy Cilimburg
Please send any questions or concerns regarding legislation or the legislative process to MT Audubon's Legislative Assistant, [hidden email][hidden email]. Questions about our strategy to protect resiliend habitats in the face of a changing climate can be directed to [hidden email]. <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?MontanaAudubon/a20eff130b/9ed5425aba/fff5b73b98" target="_blank"> ![logo_mt.jpg]()
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