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Press release from Solar Industries Association (SEIA)

December 03, 2008

Solar Energy Industries Association Announces Policy Priorities  for Obama Administration, 111th Congress

 WASHINGTON, DC – The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) today outlined the key policies that President-elect Obama and the Congressional leadership must address to expand the use of solar energy and help put over 1 million Americans back to work by 2011. 

SEIA released “Solar Energy: A Blueprint for Job Creation and Economic Security,” which recommends that the new Administration and Congress embrace the following policies and programs to expand the creation of clean energy jobs in the United States:

• Improve solar tax credits

• Increase government procurement of solar power Create tax incentives for manufacturing

• Pass a national renewable portfolio standard with a solar provision

• ·         Expand and update transmission infrastructure

• Improve access to federal lands to harness our vast solar resources

• Create a federal Clean Energy Bank

• Create the office of Renewable Energy Development

• Establish national standards for interconnection and net metering

• Increase DOE Solar Appropriations

• Enact climate legislation to reduce carbon emissions, stimulate solar generation

SEIA President Rhone Resch said, “President-elect Obama and the new Congress have expressed their commitment to addressing our current economic crisis. Increasing the use of solar energy will create millions of new jobs and put billions of dollars into the U.S. economy, providing a clean, reliable and domestic source of energy while providing a clean, reliable and domestic source of energy,.

“The growth of solar energy will not happen quickly enough without the right federal policies to stimulate the market and remove fundamental barriers that prevent solar from competing in the electricity marketplace."

For further information about Renewable Energy in this area of Texas please contact

Terry Jensen
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