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TO ALL NH RESIDENTS! Help fight back against lawmakers trying to slow the clean energy generation. HB1623 will receive its public hearing in the House Science, Technology, and Energy committee this coming Tuesday. At its core, this bill is an attempt to enshrine into New Hampshire law anti-growth misconceptions and double standards pertaining to the adoption of clean energy technologies. This bill states that New Hampshire’s state energy policy should include harmful statements like: - The state will evaluate clean energy projects based on their “lifecycle impacts”, while not requiring such an evaluation for fossil fuel generation - It makes possibly unconstitutional assertions about the state’s prerogative to overrule federal environmental regulations - It puts undue emphasis on “dispatchability” in ways that could potentially imperil federal investment in NH in the future - It asserts that retirement of fossil fuel generation facilities would be a threat to public health and safety. We will need large amounts of new, clean generation in addition to improved efficiency to cope with the coming wave of beneficial electrification in the next decade. Market forces are already driving towards clean energy solutions as the way forward, and HB1623 only seeks to stand in the way of progress and growth in the Granite State. Click the link below to allow your voice to be heard on this issue! https://lnkd.in/eg5VGAp3

PA may not be able to keep the lights on. People need to pay close attention to the energy policies of the candiates they vote for in November! If you support the myth that we can survive without fossil fuels, get ready for rolling blackouts. Electricity is growing and “coal and natural gas-fired power plants that are work horses of the grid are retiring prematurely both because of the climate policies …and because the federal government discourages or bans fossil-fuel power plants and give preferential treatment to renewable energy.” ?? Read more below ?? #electricity #power #coal #naturalgas https://lnkd.in/gBzKGbzA

Did you miss yesterday's SPEER Policy newsletter? We're tracking Oklahoma energy bills on the move, covering #TXenergy interim legislative activities as we prepare for session to kick off in January, and provide local policy updates! Dive in here: https://lnkd.in/gPQnMRHm Also, don't miss our recent blog on Utility Energy Efficiency Plan & Reports (EEPR). Utilities recently filed information on current and new efficiency programs with the PUCT, and provide historical data on energy efficiency efforts, spending, and future estimates. Learn more as we share some initial highlights from this year’s EEPR filings. https://lnkd.in/gN4yEg8R

Admittedly, I do not think that we have completely been able to deliver products that have been truly innovative in the retail energy market to date. However, choice will undoubtedly be an important factor to both provide innovative #sustainable products that customers are seeking and support the #energytransition by purchasing #renewablepower from #cleanenergy generators. An important component of those products will be longer-term as the generators' lenders will require long-term fixed payments. This bill will run counter to #competition, #sustainability and #innovation goals of the State of Maryland.

This should be a huge wake up call…this article is frightening and highlights a big issue Arizona is facing. If these out of state, special interest groups get their way, the future of Arizona will negatively change in a monumental way. Arizona has benefited from years of strategic and thoughtful energy policy which has allowed Arizona to grow at an incredibly rapid pace with reliable, affordable power. This article should wake you and your organizations up…nearly 13 million dollars in last three elections spent from OUTSIDE OF OUR STATE SPECIAL INTEREST groups to get candidates on the corporation commission that want to destroy decades of great choices and leadership. With that much money spent, and our business community asleep at the wheel, it’s a miracle they havent taken over our corporation commission already. If these irresponsible self serving groups get their way, rolling blackouts, expensive power, and uncertainty for economic development will be the new norm for Arizona. They will force bad policy upon our utility providers. It’s the business communities responsibility to fight back. We need responsible thoughtful growth. If you live in Arizona, please reach out to me and I can help you determine how you can help counter the effort of these folks that really don’t care about Arizona or its residents. Please reach out to me today!!!

Gaslighting: First in a series published in partnership with The Assembly about opposition to a wave of new natural gas pipelines, power plants and storage facilities on the drawing board in North Carolina.? Listen to an audio version of this story below. ROUGEMONT, N.C.—Andrea Childers ambled down a moss-covered path with Hubert, the family Corgi, leading the way. She veered onto an old logging road and arrived at the creek, which lies a mile downstream of the Moriah Energy Center site in southeastern Person County.? This creek was a huge reason why the Childers family bought the property more than 30 years ago. It’s where the Childers sent their young daughters, now 29 and 26, to play and catch crayfish near their rustic home. It’s where she found solace after she miscarried. Childers brought up photos on her phone taken last January showing a stream so clear it looks like glass. Now the water is brown. In mid-August, Childers, a retired social studies teacher, her husband, Paul, and Samantha Krop, the Neuse Riverkeeper, led three people from the state Division of Water Resources’ inspection team on a walking tour of the local creeks. Krop had found turbidity levels in those leaving the Moriah Energy Center at 20 times the state standards. Explore the latest news about what’s at stake for the climate during this election season. <!-- /.content-holder --> <!-- /.icn-call-out-block --> “After a lot of back and forth, the state acknowledged that the sediment was coming from Dominion’s site,” Krop said, referring to the energy center’s owner. “But they said their hands are tied. You can see how we go around and around in circles here.” “There is no arguing that this is Dominion’s pollution,” Childers said. “This is another lesson in futility.” A half-mile away, Dominion Energy was toppling trees and blasting bedrock to build the $400 million Moriah Energy Center, where it will store liquified natural gas on 485 acres of forestland. When finished, the MEC, as it’s known locally, would hold 50 million gallons of LNG in two pressurized tanks at temperatures of 260 degrees below zero. Each tank would be 160 feet tall and 600 feet around, roughly the circumference of a ferris wheel.? One thousand feet above the Earth a few days later, Krop sits in the passenger seat as a retired lieutenant colonel and volunteer pilot for SouthWings, a conservation group, flies his Cessna over southern Person County. A view of the Moriah Energy Center construction site on July 28 in southeastern Person County. It’s at the peak of summer, and lush forests cover the landscape in green brocade. Helena Moriah Road, sinuous and narrow, hems in the fields whose ripening rows of corn are ribbed like corduroy. Suddenly there it is: the future factory for freezing and liquifying natural gas, now a brown scour of rubble and dirt.? Ascend another 5,000 feet, and the rest of the fossil fuel industry’s expansive buildout would

? Big #energypolicy moves out of Washington State last week. Recognizing that regulatory innovation may be needed in the #cleanenergytransition, the new legislation would create more tools as well as new requirements for large combination utilities. ?? Integrated resource plans are out. Integrated system plans (ISPs) are in. Covering both electric and gas systems, ISPs will need to include: ? Scenarios with #emissionsreduction targets for both gas and electric operations, while accounting for the interactions between the two systems ? Plans to achieve at least 2% #energyefficiency and conservation ? Plans to achieve #loadflexibility >= 10% of electric peak load ? Plans to achieve all cost-effective #electrification of end uses through #NonPipelineAlternatives, rebates and incentives, and geographically #targetedelectrification. Utilities also need to include low-income electrification programs. ?? Utilities can propose plans to merge gas and electric operations into a single rate base (as long as it results in “net benefit” and "reasonable rate protections" for low-income customers). AFAIK this policy would be the first of its kind in the U.S. ?? Utilities and key stakeholders to develop market structures and mechanisms that recognize #greenhousegas attributes of generating resources in organized markets. The bill is on the governor’s desk. https://lnkd.in/evSM5wwR

Strata Clean Energy commends U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (I-WV) and John Barrasso (R-WY) for their recent introduction of the Energy Permitting Reform Act. This bill represents a bipartisan consensus that the U.S. must begin deploying solutions to increase grid reliability and streamline the permitting process for energy infrastructure projects. The EPRA exemplifies a step forward for the U.S. and the clean energy industry towards meeting not only our growing energy capacity needs but also our clean energy goals. We applaud Senators Manchin and Barrasso for their leadership on this issue and look forward to being a resource as they work to push this legislation across the finish line. #energypermittingreformact2024 #cleanenergy #cleanenergylegislation https://lnkd.in/gcsypRAs

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