Hello.

 

Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the proposed changes to the state’s renewable portfolio standard Class I and RPS Class II Regulations. I strongly oppose these proposed changes because they would undermine efforts to address the climate emergency.

 

The changes appear designed to incentivize counterproductive energy production and instead slow down the implementation of truly renewable sources of energy. After a year in which CO2 levels have grown at a rate faster than any time in human experience, why would we implement policies that, at best, slow our response to addressing the problem?

 

Massachusetts can and should be a leader in developing truly renewable sources of energy, such as wind and solar. I’m very concerned that these proposed RPS changes are nothing more than creative accounting designed to make it look like we’re doing something meaningful, when we’re really only passing along worse problems to our children.

 

Please do not approve these changes.

 

Kirk Enstrom

Somerville, MA