{"id":1007,"date":"2012-03-16T09:17:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T13:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/ga-hb-818-would-reduce-renewable-energy-tax-credits.html"},"modified":"2012-03-16T09:17:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T13:17:04","slug":"ga-hb-818-would-reduce-renewable-energy-tax-credits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/ga-hb-818-would-reduce-renewable-energy-tax-credits.html","title":{"rendered":"GA HB 818 would reduce renewable energy tax credits"},"content":{"rendered":"Snuck into a renewable energy bill is a\nproposed decrease to Georgia renewable energy tax credits.\nIt already passed the House and needs to be fixed in the Senate.\n

\nIn\n\nHB 818 Section 2.3:<\/a>\n

\n(G) For calendar year 2014, $5<\/strike> 2.5 million.”\n<\/blockquote>\nThe Georgia House passed this bill unanimously, apparently\npaying attention only to the addition of geothermal and not\nnoticing this item at the end.\nIt is in the\n\nSenate Finance Committee<\/a>.\n

\n\n<\/a>\n\n<\/a>\nSen.\n\nTim Golden<\/a> is a member.\nLess than a year ago he\n\nassisted in passing<\/a> these very same renewable energy GEFA tax credits\nand the next day in Valdosta at the ribbon cutting for the\nWiregrass Solar project he said:\n

\n…solar power at one time was a theory, and now it’s in practice.\n<\/blockquote>\nHe and other Georgia State Senators need\nto know somebody in the statehouse is trying to stop that solar practice.\n
\n

\nCapitol Office\n<\/H3>\n121-G State Capitol\n
\nAtlanta, GA 30334\n
\nPhone: (404) 656-7580\n
\nFax: (404) 651-6767\n<\/td>

\n   \n<\/td>\ntim.golden@senate.ga.gov\n

\nDistrict Information\n<\/H3>\n110 Beacon Hill\n
\nValdosta, GA 31602\n
\nFax: (229) 241-7732\n<\/td><\/tr><\/table>\nWhy decrease?\nThe current GEFA renewable energy tax credits are already almost\nentirely subscribed through 2014.\nWhy not increase them?\n

\n-jsq\n

\nPS: Owed to Claudia Collier.\n

\nPPS: Current law:\n\n\n

The Georgia Cogeneration and Distributed Generation Act of 2001<\/H3>\nOCGA Article 1 of Chapter 3 of Title 46\n
\n
    \n
  1. \nThe legislature finds that it is in the public interest to:\n
      \n
    1. \nEncourage private investment in renewable energy resources;\n
    2. \nStimulate the economic growth of Georgia; and\n
    3. \nEnhance the continued diversification of the energy resources used\nin Georgia.\n<\/ol>\n
    4. \nThe General Assembly further finds and declares that a program to\nprovide distributed\ngeneration for eligible cogenerators is a way to encourage private\ninvestment in renewable\nenergy resources, stimulate in-state economic growth, enhance the\ncontinued\ndiversification of this state’s energy resource mix, and reduce\ninterconnection and administrative costs.\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Snuck into a renewable energy bill is a proposed decrease to Georgia renewable energy tax credits. It already passed the House and needs to be fixed in the Senate. In HB 818 Section 2.3: (G) For calendar year 2014, $5 2.5 million.” The Georgia House passed this bill unanimously, apparently paying attention only to the […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,8,21,22,23,24],"tags":[2893,2894,1970,8701,2895,8713,1437,8714,60],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-georgia","category-planning","category-politics","category-renewable-energy","category-solar","tag-credit","tag-finance-committee","tag-gefa","tag-georgia","tag-hb-818","tag-renewable-energy","tag-senate","tag-solar","tag-tax"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-gf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}