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Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency:
A Legislative Update
Friday, May 9, 2003
10:30 a.m. – Noon, 138 Dirksen Senate Office Building
The Sustainable Energy Coalition (SEC)
and the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) sponsored a
Congressional briefing in which senior Congressional staffers will
discuss key renewable energy and energy efficiency provisions before
the Congress. The House recently passed an ominbus energy bill
(H.R. 6) that includes a variety of renewable energy and energy
efficiency measures and the Senate has just begun floor debate on
its comprehensive energy bill (S. 14). As the Senate bill moves
forward, it is anticipated that many renewable energy and energy
efficiency amendments will be offered.
Briefing
Panel:
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Deborah Estes,
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
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Mary Katherine
Ishee, Senate
Environment and Public Works Committee
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Sean Cunningham,
House Energy and Commerce Committee
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Jeffrey Duncan,
Office of Representative Ed Markey (D-MA)
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Alexandra Teitz,
House Government Reform Committee
Supplementary information on the clean
energy tax provisions was provided by SEC members Karl Gawell and
Bill Prindle.
Briefing Materials:
Energy Efficiency
Tax Credit Amendment
Comparison of Energy-Efficiency
Tax Incentive Sections in House and Senate Energy Bills
Sustainable Energy Coalition Renewable Energy Legislative Priorities
Renewable energy production tax
credits, a renewable electricity standard, net metering and
interconnection provisions, and a renewable fuels standard are a few
of the important renewable energy legislative priorities under
consideration. Similarly, tax incentives, appliance standards,
vehicle fuel economy, and oil-savings measures join an equally
important suite of vital energy efficiency policies. This briefing
discussed some of the crucial differences between the House and
Senate energy bills with respect to these topics, and some of the
efforts underway to strengthen the role of clean energy in this very
important national energy policy debate.
For more information about the
briefing, please contact JR Drabick at EESI at 202-662-1886 or
jrdrabick@eesi.org.
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