Contact Congress Now to Save Solar From the Republican Hostage Crisis

December 7th, 2010 by Susan Kraemer

Many of you have contacted me to ask if the renewable energy provisions of The Recovery Act – like the Section 1603 cash grants for solar – are being extended past Dec 31st in the now Republican-approved tax bill to be voted on this week. They are not.

I just got an email from the Solar Energy Industries Association urging me to contact congress now! The language is not in the next attempt – but if enough of us kick up a fuss, it could be put back. The Switchboard to speak to your Senator and Representative and to Senator Baucus’ office (tax policy) is (202) 224 3121.

Otherwise, all the new Recovery Act renewable energy project funding expires on Dec 31st.

Senator Baucus has all the policy language ready to go in this Baucus Amendment 4727 from the Saturday attempt to save these important provisions of The Recovery Act, that if all are implemented will put 16 Gigawatts of clean energy on the grid, more than in the entire last 30 years.

Here is where to contact your congress member via SEIA and add a quick personal note to say to extend Section 1603 – and the rest of the renewable energy investments in The Recovery Act.

Susan Kraemer@Twitter

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Tags: contact congress now!, hostage, McConnell, Section 1603, tax cuts

About the Author

Susan Kraemer writes at CleanTechnica, CSP-Today, PV-Insider , SmartGridUpdate, and GreenProphet. She has also been published at Ecoseed, NRDC OnEarth, MatterNetwork, Celsius, EnergyNow, and Scientific American. As a former serial entrepreneur in product design, Susan brings an innovator's perspective on inventing a carbon-constrained civilization: If necessity is the mother of invention, solving climate change is the mother of all necessities! As a lover of history and sci-fi, she enjoys chronicling the strange future we are creating in these interesting times. Follow Susan on Twitter @dotcommodity.

NOBAMA is GOOD BAMA

There they are again !
Those meanie weanie dastawdly WEEPUBLICANS trying to destwoy ouw countwy by being mean !!!.
Maybe King oumgabama could take the money from his multimillion dollar fun trips and his wife’s shopping sprees and put that into solar roofs.
Now wouldn’t that be more fun !!!
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http://livinggreenandsavingenergy.com Steve Stillwater

Would hate to see the incentives for solar photovoltaic panels taken away. Thanks for posting this, Susan.
http://www.zacharyshahan.com Zachary Shahan

Thank You for covering this, Susan!

I just got the email and contacted my folks as well.

So frustrating.

-Z
- http://cleantechnica.com/author/susan Susan Kraemer
  
  Maddening! Here is the email on how to push congress from VoteSolar too
  
  http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1179/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5316