National Alliance to Promote Renewable Energy Interests

"As its priority, the Alliance will seek to make the production tax credit permanent, and work to be sure the credit applies to all renewable energy technologies on an equal basis to conventional power supplies."

Washington D.C. [RenewableEnergyAccess.com] Government support of the renewable energy industry is not as strong as some people would like it to be. But those same people realize that they have to speak in favor of their interests in order to get support. Leading renewable energy business organizations have formed the Renewable Energy Business Alliance to amplify and unify their voice in support of policies and programs to expand renewable energy production in the United States.

"Strong and sustained growth in renewable energy production will lead to major benefits in U.S. energy security, job growth, fuel diversity, domestic supplies of fuel, and environmental enhancement," said Karl Gawell, executive director of the Geothermal Energy Association. "This new Alliance is focused on developing and advocating the policies and programs that, from a business perspective, will achieve these results."

As its priority, the Alliance will seek to make the production tax credit permanent, and work to be sure the credit applies to all renewable energy technologies on an equal basis to conventional power supplies. A permanent tax credit could lead to a stabile renewable energy market, which would provide business an effective incentive to invest in new renewable energy facilities, according to the Alliance.

Organizations involved in founding the alliance are the American Wind Energy Association, the Geothermal Energy Association, the Solar Energy Industries Association, the USA Biomass Power Producers Alliance, the Integrated Waste Services Association, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, the American Public Power Association and the Solid Waste Association of North America.

Is anyone showing this information to Mr. Bush?

Amen Brother and Sister Renewable Energy Lobbiests.... AND VOTERS...! All these years we mistakenly expected our elected lawmakers and leaders to be pursuaded by the common sense of Renewable Energy.....Yet year after year we continue to hear their subtle "Bah HUMBUGs"....! How might we GROW renewables...?.....by showing the ROI on Energy Star branded products to each and every person who pays a monthly electricity, gas or heating oil bill....or willingly pays a gas guzzler tax on their SUV, or lives in a home built before 1992.....There ARE available energy efficiency options currently that will eventually PAY for themselves in much less time than Mr. Bush will unfortunately spend as the Oil/Gas & Nuke Companies Toady in the White House! Also....Is there ANYONE OUT THERE IN THE HOME LOAN BUSINESS ... THAT ALSO LIVES IN OREGON.... THAT CAN OFFER ME A NEW "ENERGY STAR" MORTGAGE? If so, PLEASE call me! Bill Seaton Portland, OR 503-819-6624 cell#

The Santa Barbara County Federal Credit Union has started a solar loan program for it's membership. No appraisal, half page application, 24 hour answer, 15 and 30 year term, 4-5% depending on credit. You bring invoice from qualified contractor and the credit union makes the check to the contractor. Solar made simple, in Santa Barbara CA. Oh and they also put a 38 kW system on the roof of their building!

How do you know that the Bushites are actually working to improve things? Please read Bill Moyers' piece at AlterNet, December 2004, www.alternet.org/envirohealth/20666/ to get those guys's philosophy in life. Or go to the Fiery Hell on Earth series, an eye opener of a report at www.rachel.org/bulletin/bulletin.cfm?Issue_ID=2458&bulletin_ID=48 According to many fine reporters, the Bushites are just stalling us and distracting us, they have something else in mind..

The best and most efficient web site to contact Congress and the President about your policy concerns is www.visi.com/juan/congress.

Not all politicians are as blind to the benefits of renewable energy as those at the top of the heap. The Renewable Energy Business Alliance should become acquainted with the Apollo Alliance (http://www.apolloalliance.org/). For those of you who think that all hope is lost for ever changing things inside the Beltway, you might also become familiar with the New Democratic Network, a group of successful entrepreneurs working to change the Democratic party from the inside out. (http://www.newdem.org/) I don't doubt the Bush administration has an agenda given the groups he and his father have been associated with, groups with histories that go back hundreds of years. Want to see something to scare the beejeebers out of you, check out what a Morgan Stanely economist had to say. Maybe Afaghanistan and Iraq were about oil on the surface but I fear a deeper, darker agenda is afoot.

Sorry, forgot the link to Morgan Stanley http://homepage.mac.com/machiavel/iblog/B1072909446/C458319153/E1003803783/

As dismal as our collective governmental efforts have been to go beyond the mere test and trial stages in supporting renewables, the industry itself bears the majority responsibility for the failure to penetrate into the homes and businesses of the country. The marketing efforts of renewables a joke compared other industries. It won't sell itself. Just check the job postings to see where the emphasis is: engineering over marketing. If people don't know, they won't buy. No marketing = no business. Sales drives all.

Apparently 65-75% of the value of, for example, wind projects isn't enough subsidy already. You can't sell a bum product except by constructing a web of payoffs and profits that are safe not only from market forces but with the right regulations also from the influence of reason.

...I am rather confused by the fact, that such an Alliance, had to wait so long as to become established. On the other hand, shouldn't such an important initiative seek for a broader international support?