From: Brown Pulliam <brownpulliam@comcast.net>
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2019 3:38 PM
To: RPS, DOER (ENE)
Cc: kenneth.gordon@mahouse.gov
Subject: Green Energy should be CLEAN ENERGY!
John Wassam
Dept. of
Energy Resources
Dear Mr.
Wassam:
We
are writing to register our opposition to the Baker Administration's
proposed changes MA's Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS). We urge DOER to
withdraw the proposed changes.
We oppose
the proposed changes to the RPS because they would:
Significantly
weaken MA's energy standard, which has been an essential driver of the
development of clean renewable energy resources,
Put
public health at risk by allowing increased biomass and trash incineration to
treated as clean energy production, (Biomass and trash incineration is not
clean by any reasonable measure and should not be considered 'clean' to begin
with. Considering additional incineration as an increase in clean energy
production is absurd.)
Degrade
our environment by removing hydroelectric project operators' incentive to
improve their systems and minimize their environmental impact. (Hydro
energy created at the cost of making rivers unfit as habitats for fish, birds,
and all other forms of wild life should be banned, not bought.)
Penalize
participants in the SREC-I program by retroactively limiting SREC eligibility
to 10 years,
Remove
the requirement that energy generated outside of New England be imported under
a contract and delivered into New England in order to create a Renewable Energy
Certificate to demonstrate compliance with MA's RPS.
In
summary, We oppose DOER's proposed changes to our RPS regulations because
they gut the components which have favorably distinguished our RPS from other
states' and made it an effective driver of renewable energy development for
nearly twenty years. If implemented, the proposed changes would be bad for the
residents of Massachusetts.
Brown &
Lois Pulliam
102 Badger
Ter.
Bedford, MA
01730
781-275-0090