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December 2013


Touchstone Energy Selects Habitat for Humanity as NRECA Community Service


Project NRECA—Electric Co-op Today reported Dec. 16 that Touchstone Energy® (TSE) selected Habitat for Humanity for the 2014 NRECA annual meeting community service project. The March 1 meeting will be “in Nashville, Tenn., so TSE turned to Middle Tennessee EMC and the Tennessee Electric Cooperative Association for help finding a worthy partner.” Laura Cook,


TSE senior communications and public relations specialist, said, “After evaluating several projects, we agreed Habitat for Humanity would be a perfect fit for our outgoing and ambitious members.” ECT added the project will “focus on two properties Habitat for Humanity of Williamson County is working on in Fairview, Tenn., about 25 miles southwest of Nashville.”


Clean Energy Groups Say Gov't is "Lowballing" the Sector's Potential


NRECA—The FuelFix reported Dec. 16, “clean energy enthusiasts...said the government is lowballing the industry’s potential.” The Energy Information Administration said in “its new long-range forecast...that while wind, solar, hydropower, and biomass will grow significantly over the next three decades, those renewable energy


sources still will make up just a sliver — 16 percent — of the nation’s electricity by 2040.” That figure “is higher than renewable power’s 12 percent contribution in 2012, with the EIA crediting the projected growth to federal tax credits, state mandates and, eventually, relatively low cost.” But according to executive director of the Sun Day Campaign Ken


Democrats Urge Renewal of Clean-


Energy Tax Incentives NRECA—“E2 Wire” blog of The Hill reported Dec. 17 that Congress is being pressed by Democrats “to renew clean-energy tax incentives that are set to expire at the end of [2013].” In a letter to Sen. Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, “25 senators urged the committee not to let tax credits expire for offshore wind investments and cleaner vehicles, among others.” In a statement Sen. Ed Markey said, “If a broader tax code overhaul cannot be achieved by year’s end, it is imperative that these key clean energy tax incentives are renewed as soon as possible. ... These tax credits have helped scale up production and drive down the cost of clean energy technologies.”


Bossong, “it still is unrealistically low.” Bossong said, “Even if government support lessens in future years, competitive and ever-lower prices coupled with the pressures of climate change virtually assure that renewables will continue to grow at rapid rates that substantially exceed EIA’s projections.”


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