Kentucky Solar Energy Society

Kentucky Solar Energy Society

efficiency / conservation / renewables

2012 Legislative Session bills filed

Clean Energy Opportunity Act - House Representative Mary Lou Marzian filed the Clean Energy Opportunity Act on January 3, 2012 in Frankfort. It is House Bill 167 and it has been assigned to the Tourism Development and Energy Committee. There is more information about the bill here.

Enhanced Net Metering - House Representatives Jim Wayne, Steve Riggs, Ron Crimm, Mary Lou Marzian and Joni Jenkins have sponsored and filed House Bill 187. The bill primarily lifts the limit for net metering from 30 kilowatts to 2 megawatts. This bill has also been assigned to the House Tourism Development and Energy Committee.

If you have a representative on the Tourism Development and Energy Committee, please call and write them to express support for the bill. Better yet, go pay them a visit!

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CALENDAR

1/19 at 2 pm and 8 pm - Introduction to the Clean Energy Opportunity Act - discusses HB 167 that would create a renewable energy portfolio standard (RPS), an energy efficiency standard and other measures to promote renewable energy in Kentucky.

1/19 at 12 pm Yale Center for Business and the Environment Presents Behavior-Based Strategies to Rethinking Energy Efficiency and Demand Side Management - using behavior-based strategies to achieve energy savings and overcoming barriers to behavior-based programs

2/28 from 8:30 to 4:30 - KYSEA Lobby Day for the Clean Energy Opportunity Act - meet at the Capitol Annex in Frankfort to lobby your legislator in favor of clean energy for Kentucky.

PV Array on Gil Holland's Green Building

Above system installed by Solar Designs, Inc. of Louisville

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