Clean Energy Policy Jesse Kharbanda – Executive Director, Hoosier Environmental Council Ray McCormick – Farmer & Vice President for the Indiana Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts Tom Conway – Regional Program Manager for the Blue Green Alliance
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Clean Energy Policy
Jesse Kharbanda –
Executive Director, Hoosier Environmental Council
Ray McCormick – Farmer & Vice President for the Indiana Association of
Soil and Water Conservation Districts
Tom Conway – Regional Program Manager for the Blue
Green Alliance
The Landscape of Energy The Landscape of Energy Issues in 2011Issues in 2011
Jesse Kharbanda
Executive Director
Hoosier Environmental Council
November 6, 2010
In Montana's Glacier National Park only 27 of the 150 glaciers which existed in 1910 remain today and they will be gone in only 20 years.
Unfortunately the fight for Unfortunately the fight for clean energy won't be easy clean energy won't be easy
at all...at all...• Status Quo & Stubborn Myths
– “Nuclear is cheap”
– “We can't run our businesses on wind power”
– “We're out of power!”
• Old School Economic Development
– Don't worry about the environment
– Or small businesses...
Our GoalsOur Goals
• Back policies that definitively achieve a net benefit for Hoosiers
• Oppose policies that don't...
Making an Impact this Making an Impact this Session? Really??Session? Really??
• Two positive opportunities:
– Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Bonds
– Renewable Electricity Standard (RES)
• And also a need to be very cautious:
– Trackers
– CWIP
PACE Legislation
Opportunity #1Opportunity #1
As energy saving, cost-minded, environmentally conscious
homeowners & businesspeople, we dream of..
Using clean energy...Using clean energy...
General Barriers to General Barriers to On Site Clean EnergyOn Site Clean Energy