SmartPower on Huffinton Post

Posted on August 9, 2009
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picture-4SmartPower President Brian Keane has a new piece in Huffington Post about some unintended consequences of the climate and energy legislation working its way through Congress.  Brian describes the threat the legislation poses to voluntary clean energy purchases–the clean energy that companies and individuals are now choosing to purchase because it helps shrink their carbon footprint.

Yet, for all our excitement about having a climate bill — let’s not simply push for any climate bill. To be sure, left unchecked, we could wind up with a bill that, however well intentioned, could actually do more harm to the clean energy industry here in the US than good.

I’m speaking specifically of the voluntary renewable energy market. The voluntary renewable energy market is here and thriving. It’s responsible for over 18 million megawatt hours generated and has a market value estimation between $85 and $125 million. It goes without saying that green power purchases are a huge piece of the renewable energy pie.

Read the entire post here.

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