“Emissions
trading (also known as cap and
trade) an administrative (governmental) approach used to control
pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the
emissions of pollutants”.
“Beginning 1
year after enactment of the Cap and Trade Act, you won’t
be able to sell your home unless you retrofit it to comply with the energy and
water efficiency standards of this Act. H.R. 2454, the “Cap & Trade” bill
passed by the House of Representatives, if also passed by the Senate, will be
the largest tax increase any of us has ever experienced.
The Congressional Budget Office (supposedly
non-partisan) estimates that in just a few years the average cost to every
family of four will be $6,800 per year. No one is excluded. However, once the
lower classes feel the pinch in their wallets, you can be sure these voters get
a tax refund (even if they pay no taxes at all) to offset this new cost. Thus,
you Mr. and Mrs. Middle Class America will have to pay even more since
additional tax dollars will be needed to bail out everyone else.
A year from now you won’t be able to sell your house.
Yes, you read that right. The caveat is (there always is a caveat) that if you
have enough money to make required major upgrades to your home, then you can
sell it. But, if not, then forget it. Even pre-fabricated homes (“mobile
homes”) are included.
In effect, this bill prevents you from selling your
home without the permission of the EPA administrator. To get this permission,
you will have to have the energy efficiency of your home measured. Then the
government will tell you what your new energy efficiency requirement is and you
will be forced to make modifications to your home under the retrofit provisions
of this Act to comply with the new energy and water efficiency requirements.
Then you will have to get your home measured again and
get a license (called a “label” in the Act) that must be posted on your
property to show what your efficiency rating is; sort of like the Energy Star
efficiency rating label on your refrigerator or air conditioner. If you don’t get
a high enough rating, you can’t sell. And, the EPA administrator is authorized
to raise the standards every year, even above the automatic energy efficiency
increases built into the Act.”
Do I have your attention
yet? Good because this is the type of text found throughout the World Wide Web
from people truly concerned about Cap & Trade and what it might mean to
them. Cap and Trade is coming soon if we don’t become involved, show our
discontent in the voting booth in November, and STOP this insanity that has
overtaken Washington! These are taxes that Washington is talking about and
these are not cheap. If this bill passes, it will be the largest tax increase
on middleclass Americans EVER! This bill is socialistic in nature and if
allowed to pass, will change America for generations to come; it will break us.
It is my opinion that if we think the health care bill is bad then we'd better
take a good long hard look at the Cap and trade bill.HR 2454 is also known as the “American Clean
Energy and Security Act of 2009”.This bill
is written in the same form as HR 3590, the health care bill.This document is 1428 pages long.As I mentioned in my health care chapter, I
have spoken with many people regarding this bill also.I would estimate that no more than 5% of the
people that I spoke with had any idea that there was such a bill in
Washington.That being said, one would
have to assume that the majority of Americans do not have a clue of what is
contained within HR 2454.After reading
the chapter on health care and gleaning a fair understanding of the
accelerating costs that most of us will endure, I am sure that you will agree
with me that HR 2454 makes HR 3590 look like Ned and his first reader.
I feel confident that most everyone has come
to realize that energy costs are rising without the help of any governmental
agency.This bill, if allowed to pass,
will raise our energy costs to a level that we have never experienced.I am quite positive that most Americans have
come to the same conclusion as I have; when energy costs rise, so does the cost
of just about everything else.It is my
belief that the group of people that will endure the greatest hardship brought
on by these accelerated energy costs will be the middle class of America.Again, the wealthy will probably not feel
much pain and the poor will receive help from state and federal
government.But if you fall into the
category of middle-class, then you probably make too much money to receive
financial assistance from anyone.As
things stand right now for me, my income is above the level in which I would be
eligible for financial assistance, but still have a very difficult time in
making ends meet every month. Any increase in my obligations, if HR 2454 passes,
will be unsustainable.In other words, I
cannot afford to pay any extra fees, taxes, penalties, interest or anything
else the federal government deems appropriate.According to the congressional budget office, commonly known as the CBO,
the average increase in annual costs to me will be around $1600.Do not be confused, this increase is on top
of what I already spend.Now I do not
know about you, but I don't have an extra $1600 just lying around and I feel
very confident that an increase in my net pay to cover this is not in the cards
at this time.It is my belief that
employers across this country will be quite busy searching for the extra
capital it will require to become and stay compliant with the healthcare bill
setting any increase in employee payroll on the back burner for the foreseeable
future.The extra costs incurred with
the passage of HR 2454 will put the possibility of a raise in pay, for most, in
a galaxy far, far away. By the way, the $1600 is after you pay all of your
taxes. In other words, it is probably going to take $2500 gross pay to cover
these accelerated utility costs. In other words, I am going to have to ask my
boss for a $2500 raise to cover my accelerated utility costs in order to keep
my standard of living where it is today.
After reading the entire bill, I believe that
the costs (taxes) involved greatly outweigh any reduction in the amount of
carbon contained within our atmosphere.It has also come to my attention that a certain percentage of this bill
is dedicated to the implementation of a trading system for these carbon
credits.I find this quite disturbing.We have all seen how the stock market has
been, is now and will be manipulated.It
is my belief that the rules and regulations set forth in this legislation hold
no promise of ever protecting the citizens of this great country from the same
manipulation. This will be the largest transfer of wealth in human history.
I plead with everyone to please read every
word. As with the healthcare bill, I have pulled from this bill, the text that
jumps off the page at me.There is much,
much more within this document that I know is very important. I find it quite
odd that I continue to have such a good outlook, even with socialism knocking
at the door, while I shop for a good dumpster to live behind.
As a note, I would like to add the
description of a word that is used throughout and should be understood for it
clearly has great meaning:
Etymology: Latin promulgatus,
past participle of promulgare, from pro- forward + -mulgare
(probably akin to mulgēre to milk, extract) — more at emulsion
Date: 1530
1: to make (as a doctrine) known by open declaration :proclaim 2 a: to make known or public the terms of (a proposed law) b: to put (a law) into action or force
“Smart meters” are electric meters that
return information about customer power usage to the power company immediately
and allow a power company to control the
amount of power a customer can consume. These
smart meters are a central component of the Obama administration’s plans to
reduce electricity consumption as part of the “smart grid.”
Calendar No. 97
111TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION H.
R. 2454
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JULY 6, 2009
Received
and read the first time
JULY 7, 2009
Read
the second time and placed on the calendar
AN ACT
SHORT TITLE.—This
Act may be cited as the‘American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009’
To create clean energy
jobs, achieve energy independence, reduce
global warming
pollution and transition to a clean energy economy.
Well, here we go.
Remember, this bill is only 1428 pages so it should not take as long to read as
the health care bill.
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1 SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
2 For purposes of this Act:
3 (1) ADMINISTRATOR.—The term ‘‘Adminis4
trator’’ means the Administrator of the Environ5
mental
Protection Agency.
Remember this, the Administrator will be referred
to many times in the bill.
9 SEC. 3. INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION.
10 The Administrator, in consultation with the
Depart11
ment of State and the United States Trade Representa12
tive, shall annually prepare and certify a report to the
13 Congress regarding whether China and India have
adopted
14 greenhouse gas emissions standards at least as
strict as
15 those standards required under this Act. If the
Adminis16
trator determines that China and India have not adopted
17 greenhouse gas emissions standards at least as
stringent
18 as those set forth in this Act, the Administrator
shall no19
tify each Member of Congress of his determination, and
20 shall release his determination to
the media.
This sounds like the beginning of a threatening
posture to me. The Administrator is going to want all countries to be singing
from the same hymn book. And what does it mean if they don’t? Further into the
bill, it states that there will be consequences.
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11 ‘‘(6) ELECTRICITY SAVINGS.—The
term ‘elec12
tricity savings’ means reductions in electricity con13
sumption, relative to business-as-usual projections,
14 achieved through measures implemented after the
15 date of enactment of this section, limited to—
16 ‘‘(A) customer facility savings of elec17
tricity, adjusted to reflect any associated in18
crease in fuel consumption at the facility;
19 ‘‘(B) reductions in distribution system
20 losses of electricity achieved by a retail elec21
tricity distributor, as compared to losses attrib22
utable to new or replacement distribution sys23
tem equipment of average efficiency;
24 ‘‘(C) CHP savings; and
25 ‘‘(D) fuel cell savings.
So, reducing electricity consumption in order to be
seen in a good light with the Administrator. I would think that greatly
increasing electricity costs would reduce consumption. Hmmm! It also seems that
points will be deducted if the distribution lines are not up to someone’s
standard. Where will that money come from?
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1 ‘‘(7) CENTRAL PROCUREMENT STATE.—The
2 term ‘central procurement State’ means a State
3 that, as of January 1, 2009, had adopted and
imple4
mented a legally enforceable mandate that, in lieu of
5 requiring utilities to submit credits or
certificates
6 issued based on generation of electricity from
(or to
7 purchase or generate electricity from) resources
de8
fined by the State as renewable, requires retail elec9
tric suppliers to collect payments from electricity
10 ratepayers within the State that are used for
central
11 procurement, by a State agency or a public benefit
12 corporation established pursuant to State law, of
13 credits or certificates issued based on
generation of
14 electricity from resources defined by the State
as re15
newable.
That is what I am talking about. The ratepayers are the group that
will fund this entire exercise; that’s us! I wonder if that CBO number was
correct? Remember, $1600.00 per year in addition to what you already pay! And
if you think that these regulations will not drive the cost of everything else
through the roof……
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20 ‘‘(21)
THIRD-PARTY EFFICIENCY PROVIDER.—
21 The
term ‘third-party efficiency provider’ means any
22 retailer,
building owner, energy service company, fi23
nancial institution or other commercial, industrial or
24 nonprofit
entity that is capable of providing elec-
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1 tricity
savings in accordance with the requirements
2 of this section.
It will be interesting to see how a financial
institution is capable of providing savings on my utility bill.
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8 ‘‘(e)
FEDERAL RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY
CRED9
ITS.—
10 ‘‘(1)
IN GENERAL.—The regulations promul11
gated under this section shall include provisions gov12
erning the issuance, tracking, and verification of
13 Federal
renewable electricity credits. Except as pro14
vided in paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) of this sub15
section, the Commission shall issue to each gener16
ator of renewable electricity, 1 Federal renewable
17 electricity
credit for each megawatt hour of renew18
able electricity generated by such generator after
19 December
31, 2011. The Commission shall assign a
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1 unique
serial number to each Federal renewable
2 electricity credit.
“The Commission” I for one would like to see who
sits on the Commission. I would imagine that there are quite a few interesting individuals
we already know and love.
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3 ‘‘(2) GENERATION FROM CERTAIN STATE RE4
NEWABLE ELECTRICITY PROGRAMS.—(A) Except as
5 provided in subparagraph (B), where renewable
elec6
tricity is generated with the support of payments
7 from a retail electric supplier pursuant to a
State re8
newable electricity program (whether through State
9 alternative compliance payments or through pay10
ments to a State renewable electricity procurement
11 fund or entity), the Commission shall issue
Federal
12 renewable electricity credits to such retail
electric
13 supplier for the proportion of the relevant
renewable
14 electricity generation that is attributable to
the retail
15 electric supplier’s payments
Remember where the funds are generated from to pay
the “Retail Electric Supplier” payments; retail customers in the form of higher
taxes.
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16 ‘‘(2) STANDARDS FOR THIRD-PARTY
17 VERIFICATION OF SAVINGS.—The regulations pro18
mulgated under this section shall establish proce19
dures and standards requiring third-party
20 verification of all reported electricity savings,
includ21
ing requirements for accreditation of third-party
22 verifiers to ensure that such verifiers are
profes23
sionally
qualified and have no conflicts of interest.
I wonder who these “Third-Party Verifiers” are and
how much they will be paid? The more entities involved in your electric bill,
the higher it will be. This is a simple law of monetary physics.
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49
3 ‘‘(3) NONCOMPLIANCE.—If a central
procure4
ment State that pursuant to this subsection has as5
sumed responsibility for compliance with the require6
ments of subsection (b), fails to satisfy the require7
ments of subsection (b) or (h) for any year, the
8 State’s assumption of responsibility under this
sub9
section shall be discontinued immediately, and retail
10 electric suppliers located in such State
henceforth
11 shall be directly subject to the requirements of
this
12 section.
I read this and assume that if our elected
officials at the State level fall down on the job, then the retail electricity
providers in that state are automatically responsible. So let’s see, the State
gets the money and doesn’t spend it correctly OR has a falling out with the
Commission, your electric company is on the hook.
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13 ‘‘(h) INFORMATION COLLECTION.—The Commission
14 may require any retail electric supplier,
renewable elec15
tricity generator, or such other entities as the Commission
16 deems appropriate, to provide any information the
Com17
mission determines appropriate to carry out this section.
18 Failure to submit such information or submission
of false
19 or misleading information under this subsection
shall be
20 a violation of this section.
“Any information the Commission determines
appropriate” is a very open ended statement. This sounds just like the
Secretary in the healthcare bill. I wonder if my personal energy usage will
become an issue for my provider. You know; do I use too much electricity?
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21 ‘‘(i)
ENFORCEMENT AND JUDICIAL REVIEW.—
22 ‘‘(1)
FAILURE TO SUBMIT CREDITS
OR DEM23
ONSTRATE SAVINGS.—If any person, other than any
24 central
procurement State that pursuant to sub25
section (g) has assumed responsibility for compliance
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the requirements of subsection (b), fails to com2
ply with the requirements of subsection (b) or (h),
3 such
person shall be liable to pay to the Commission
4 a
civil penalty equal to the product of—
5 ‘‘(A)
double the alternative compliance
6 payment
calculated under subsection (h)(1),
7 and
8 ‘‘(B)
the aggregate quantity of Federal re9
newable electricity credits, total annual elec10
tricity savings, or equivalent alternative compli11
ance payments that the person failed to submit
12 in
violation of the requirements of subsections
13 (b)
and (h).
14 ‘‘(2)
ENFORCEMENT.—The Commission shall
15 assess
a civil penalty under paragraph (1) in accord16
ance with the procedures described in section 31(d)
17 of
the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 823b(d)).
18 ‘‘(3)
VIOLATION OF REQUIREMENT
OF REGULA19
TIONS OR ORDERS.—Any person, other than any
20 central
procurement State that pursuant to sub21
section (g) has assumed responsibility for compliance
22 with
the requirements of subsection (b), who vio23
lates, or fails or refuses to comply with, any require24
ment of a regulation promulgated or order issued
25 under
this section shall be subject to a civil penalty
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1 under
section 316A(b) of the Federal Power Act (16
2 U.S.C.
825o–1). Such penalty shall be assessed by
3 the
Commission in the same manner as in the case
4 of
a violation referred to in section 316A(b) of such
5 Act.
Federal
Power Act (16 U.S.C. 823b(d)
If you think you might fall into the category of “violator”,
you will want to read the Federal Power Act; it might be very important. Heck,
you might want to find another line of work. The fact that civil penalties are
mentioned at all is very disturbing.
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19 SEC. 103. FEDERAL
RENEWABLE ENERGY PURCHASES.
20 (a)
REQUIREMENT.—For each of calendar years
21 2012
through 2039, the President shall ensure that, of
22 the
total amount of electricity Federal agencies consume
23 in
the United States during each calendar year, the fol24
lowing percentage shall be renewable electricity:
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20.0
11 (c) MODIFICATION OF REQUIREMENT.—If the Presi12
dent determines that the Federal Government cannot fea13
sibly meet the requirement established in subsection (a)
14 in a specific calendar year, the President may,
by written
15 order, reduce such requirement for such calendar
year to
16 a percentage the President determines the Federal
Gov17
ernment
can feasibly meet.
I wonder if I can reduce my tax burden, by written
order of course, in order to reduce my requirement to an amount I can feasibly
meet. Seriously, will all the entities that are subject to this bill have the
same right to reduce requirements? I don’t think so. I was always taught that
what is good for the goose, is good for the gander.
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64
12 (8) RETAIL CONSUMER.—The term ‘‘retail
con13
sumer’’
means an end-user of electricity.
Just thought I would throw this in as a reminder. This
means you!
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7 (12)
ANNUAL REPORT.—Each year the Cor8
poration shall prepare and make publicly available a
9 report
which includes an identification and descrip10
tion of all programs and projects undertaken by the
11 Corporation
during the previous year. The report
12 shall
also detail the allocation or planned allocation
13 of
Corporation resources for each such program and
14 project.
The Corporation shall provide its annual re15
port to the Congress, the Secretary, each State regu16
latory authority, and upon request to the public. The
17 Secretary
shall, not less than 60 days after receiving
18 such
report, provide to the President and Congress
19 a
report assessing the progress of the Corporation in
20 meeting
the objectives of this section.
21 (d)
ASSESSMENTS.—
22 (1)
AMOUNT.—(A) In all calendar years fol23
lowing its establishment, the Corporation shall col24
lect an assessment on distribution utilities for all
25 fossil
fuel-based electricity delivered directly to retail
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(as determined under subsection (f)). The
2 assessments
shall reflect the relative carbon dioxide
3 emission
rates of different fossil fuel-based elec4
tricity, and initially shall be not less than the fol5
7 assessments
on fossil fuel-based electricity to reflect
8 changes
in the expected quantities of such electricity
9 from
different fuel types, such that the assessments
10 generate
not less than $1.0 billion and not more
11 than
$1.1 billion annually. The Corporation is au12
thorized to supplement assessments through addi13
tional financial commitments.
Yep, higher rates. Most of the electricity generated and
sold in the country comes from fossil fuel. It looks like the corporation has a
built in billion dollar per year income. Who is this Corporation anyway? Good
question; isn’t it? And there is that description again: Retail Consumers.
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4 (3) REVERSION OF UNUSED FUNDS.—If the
5 Corporation does not disburse, dedicate or assign
75
6 percent or more of the available proceeds of the
as7
sessed fees in any calendar year 7 or more years fol8
lowing its establishment, due to an absence of quali9
fied projects or similar circumstances, it shall reim10
burse the remaining undedicated or unassigned bal11
ance of such fees, less administrative and other ex12
penses authorized by this section, to the distribution
13 utilities upon which such fees were assessed, in
pro14
portion
to their collected assessments.
There are two things in this section that I would not
count on. The first one is the assumption that the government will not spend
all the money it collects and the second, that the government would not spend
all the money it collects.
3 (3) FINAL RULE.—Within 6
months after the
4 date of enactment of this Act, and after opportunity
5 for comment, the Secretary shall issue a final
rule
6 under this subsection for determining the level
and
7 type of fossil fuel-based electricity delivered
to retail
8 customers by each distribution utility in the
United
9 States during the appropriate period.
I suggest you contact your utility company and become
involved. I received a letter from my utility company (can be viewed on the
website) and it states that costs will get way out of hand.
16 (g) COMPLIANCE WITH CORPORATION ASSESS17
MENTS.—The
Corporation may bring an action in the ap18
propriate court of the United States to compel compliance
19 with an assessment levied by the Corporation
under this
20 section. A successful action for compliance under
this sub21
section may also require payment by the defendant of the
22 costs incurred by the Corporation in
bringing such action.
The Corporation can bring suit against any energy provider
if the Corporation doesn’t care for the actions of the energy provider. I am
confident that this will be of no assistance in reducing our monthly utility
bills.
Please hang in there as this is important. As I mentioned
in the health care chapter, I have chosen the sections that seem to be the most
prevalent. I do feel that the entire bill has the potential to transform
America forever! And it will not be pretty!
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9 SEC. 132. SUPPORT OF
STATE RENEWABLE ENERGY AND
10 ENERGY EFFICIENCY
PROGRAMS.
11 (a)
DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section:
12 (1)
ALLOWANCE.—The term ‘‘allowance’’
13 means
an emission allowance established under sec14
tion 721 of the Clean Air Act (as added by section
15 311
of this Act).
16 (2)
COST-EFFECTIVE.—The term ‘‘cost-effec17
tive’’, with respect to an energy efficiency program,
18 means
that the program meets the Total Resource
19 Cost
Test, which requires that the net present value
20 of
economic benefits over the life of the program or
21 measure,
including avoided supply and delivery costs
22 and
deferred or avoided investments, is greater than
23 the
net present value of the economic costs over the
24 life
of the program, including program costs and in25
cremental costs borne by the energy consumer.
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1 (3)
RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCE.—The
2 term
‘‘renewable energy resource’’ shall have the
3 meaning
given that term in section 610 of the Public
4 Utility
Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (as added by
5 section
101 of this Act).
6 (4)
VINTAGE YEAR.—The term ‘‘vintage year’’
7 shall
the meaning given that term in section 700 of
8 the
Clean Air Act (as added by section 311 of this
9 Act).
10 (b)
DISTRIBUTION AMONG STATES.—Not later than
11 September
30 of each calendar year from 2011 through
12 2049,
the Administrator shall, in accordance with this sec13
tion, distribute allowances allocated pursuant to section
14 782(g)(1)
of the Clean Air Act (as added by section 311
15 of
this Act) for the following vintage year. The Adminis16
trator shall distribute 0.5 percent of such allowances pur17
suant to section 133 of this Act. The Administrator shall
18 distribute
the remaining allowances to States for renew19
able energy and energy efficiency programs to be deposited
20 in
and administered through the State Energy and Envi21
ronment Development (SEED) Accounts established pur22
suant to section 131. The Administrator shall distribute
23 allowances
among the States under this section each year
24 in
accordance with the following formula:
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One third of the allowances shall be divided
2 equally
among the States.
3 (2)
One third of the allowances shall be distrib4
uted ratably among the States based on the popu5
lation of each State, as contained in the most recent
6 reliable
census data available from the Bureau of the
7 Census,
Department of Commerce, for all States at
8 the
time the Administrator calculates the formula
9 for
distribution.
10 (3)
One third of the allowances for shall be dis11
tributed ratably among the States on the basis of
12 the
energy consumption of each State as contained
13 in
the most recent State Energy Data Report avail14
able from the Energy Information Administration
15 (or
such alternative reliable source as the Adminis16
trator may designate).
17 (c)
USES.—The allowances distributed to each
State
18 pursuant
to this section shall be used exclusively in accord19
ance with the following requirements:
20 (1)
Not less than 12.5 percent shall be distrib21
uted by the State to units of local government within
22 such
State to be used exclusively to support the en23
ergy efficiency and renewable energy purposes listed
24 in
paragraphs (2) and (3).
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1 (2)
Not less than 20 percent shall be used ex2
clusively for the following energy efficiency purposes,
3 provided
that not less than 1 percent shall be used
4 for
the purpose described in subparagraph (D) and
5 not
less than 5.5 percent shall be used for the pur6
pose described in subparagraph (E):
7 (A)
Implementation and enforcement of
8 building
codes adopted in compliance with sec9
tion 201.
10 (B)
Implementation of the energy efficient
11 manufactured
homes program established pur12
suant to section 203.
13 (C)
Implementation of the building energy
14 performance
labeling program established pur15
suant to section 204.
16 (D)
Low-income community energy effi17
ciency programs that are consistent with the
18 grant
program established under section 264 of
19 this
Act.
20 (E)
Implementation of the Retrofit for En21
ergy and Environmental Performance (REEP)
22 program
established pursuant to section 202.
23 (3)
Not less than 20 percent shall be used ex24
clusively for capital grants, tax credits, production
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1 direct
provision of allowances, and interest rate buy2
downs for—
3 (A)
re-equipping, expanding, or estab4
lishing a manufacturing facility that receives
5 certification
from the Secretary of Energy pur6
suant to section 1302 of the American Recovery
7 and
Reinvestment Act of 2009 for the produc8
tion of—
9 (i)
property designed to be used to
10 produce
energy from renewable energy
11 sources;
and
12 (ii)
electricity storage systems;
13 (B)
deployment of technologies to generate
14 electricity
from renewable energy sources; and
15 (C)
deployment of facilities or equipment,
16 such
as solar panels, to generate electricity or
17 thermal
energy from renewable energy re18
sources in and on buildings in an urban envi19
ronment.
20 (4)
The remaining 47.5 percent shall be used
21 exclusively
for any of the following purposes:
22 (A)
Energy efficiency purposes described
23 in
paragraph (2).
24 (B)
Renewable energy purposes described
25 in
paragraph (3)(B) and (C).
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1 (C)
Cost-effective energy efficiency pro2
grams for end-use consumers of electricity, nat3
ural gas, home heating oil, or propane, includ4
ing, where appropriate, programs or mecha5
nisms administered by local governments and
6 entities
other than the State.
7 (D)
Enabling the development of a Smart
8 Grid
(as described in section 1301 of the En9
ergy Independence and Security Act of 2007
10 (42
U.S.C. 17381)) for State, local government,
11 and
other public buildings and facilities, includ12
ing integration of renewable energy resources
13 and
distributed generation, demand response,
14 demand
side management, and systems anal15
ysis.
16 (E)
Providing the non-Federal share of
17 support
for surface transportation capital
18 projects
under—
19 (i)
sections 5307, 5308, 5309, 5310,
20 5311
and 5319 of title 49, United States
21 Code;
and
22 (ii)
sections 142, 146, and 149 of title
23 23,
United States Code,
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1 provided
that not more than 10 percent of al2
lowances distributed to each State pursuant to
3 this
section shall be used for such purpose.
4 (5)
For any allowances used for the purpose de5
scribed in paragraph (4)(C), the State shall—
6 (A)
prioritize expansion of existing energy
7 efficiency
programs approved and overseen by
8 the
State or the appropriate State regulatory
9 authority;
and
10 (B)
demonstrate that such allowances have
11 been
used to supplement, and not to supplant,
12 existing
and otherwise available State, local,
13 and
ratepayer funding for such purpose.
14 (d)
REPORTING.—Each State receiving allowances
15 under
this section shall include in its biennial reports re16
quired under section 131, in accordance with such require17
ments as the Administrator may prescribe—
18 (1)
a list of entities receiving allowances or al19
lowance value under this section, including entities
20 receiving
such allowances or allowance value from
21 units
of local government pursuant to subsection
22 (c)(1);
23 (2)
the amount and nature of allowances or al24
lowance value received by each such recipient;
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1 (3)
the specific purposes for which such allow2
ances or allowance value was conveyed to each such
3 recipient;
4 (4)
documentation of the amount of energy sav5
ings, emission reductions, renewable energy deploy6
ment, and new or retooled manufacturing capacity
7 resulting
from the use of such allowances or allow8
ance value; and
9 (5)
for any energy efficiency program supported
10 under
subsection (c)(4)(C)—
11 (A)
an assessment demonstrating the cost12
effectiveness of such program; and
13 (B)
a demonstration that the requirements
14 set
forth in subsection (c)(5) have been satis15
fied.
16 (e)
ENFORCEMENT.—If the Administrator deter17
mines that a State is not in compliance with this section,
18 the
Administrator may withhold up to twice the number
19 of
allowances that the State failed to use in accordance
20 with
the requirements of this section, that such State
21 would
otherwise be eligible to receive under this section
22 in
later years. Allowances withheld pursuant to this sub23
section shall be distributed among the remaining States
24 in accordance with the
requirements of subsection (b).
This is where it starts to get a little interesting. It seems that the
text moves towards dwellings (REEP Program). I would imagine that we will read
some things later in this bill that are very disturbing about your house.
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17 (5)
The term ‘‘peak demand reduction’’ means
18 the
reduction in annual peak demand as compared
19 to
a previous baseline year or period, expressed in
20 Megawatts
(MW), whether accomplished by—
21 (A)
diminishing the end-use requirements
22 for
electricity;
23 (B)
use of locally stored energy or gen24
erated electricity to meet those requirements
25 from
distributed resources on the load-serving
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1 entity’s
customers’ premises and without use of
2 high-voltage
transmission; or
3 (C)
energy savings from efficient operation
4 of
the distribution grid resulting from the use
5 of
a Smart Grid.
6 (6)
The term ‘‘peak demand reduction plan’’
7 means
a plan developed by or for a load-serving enti8
ty that it will implement to meet its peak demand
9 reduction
goals.
10 (7)
The term ‘‘peak period’’ means the time pe11
riod on the system of a load-serving entity relative
12 to
peak demand that may warrant special measures
13 or
electricity resources to maintain system reliability
14 while
meeting peak demand.
15 (8)
The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary
16 of
Energy.
17 (9)
The term ‘‘Smart Grid’’ has the meaning
18 provided
by section 1301 of the Energy Independ19
ence and Security Act of 2007 (15 U.S.C. 17381).
I have a box for this. I installed it two years
ago and continue to save 15% to 20% on my electric bill. As a note, my home is
two years old and all of the appliances are energy star rated. It is my belief
that this box would produce even more savings as most of the appliances in this
country are much older than two years and are not energy star rated. This would
be an immediate cost reduction and reduction in emissions for everyone. This
should be alarming to everyone: diminishing the end-use requirements for electricity
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11 SEC. 173. BUILDING
ASSESSMENT CENTERS.
12 (a)
IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Energy (in this
13 section
referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall provide fund14
ing to institutions of higher education for Building
Assess15
ment Centers to—
16 (1)
identify opportunities for optimizing energy
17 efficiency
and environmental performance in existing
18 buildings;
19 (2)
promote high-efficiency building construc20
tion techniques and materials options;
21 (3)
promote applications of emerging concepts
22 and
technologies in commercial and institutional
23 buildings;
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1 (4)
train engineers, architects, building sci2
entists, and building technicians in energy-efficient
3 design
and operation;
4 (5)
assist local community colleges, trade
5 schools,
registered apprenticeship programs and
6 other
accredited training programs in training build7
ing technicians;
8 (6)
promote research and development for the
9 use
of alternative energy sources to supply heat and
10 power,
for buildings, particularly energy-intensive
11 buildings;
and
12 (7)
coordinate with and assist State-accredited
13 technical
training centers and community colleges,
14 while
ensuring appropriate services to all regions of
15 the United States.
Here is another one of those short sections that will be important as
we read on. It is my opinion that my house will fall into some category that is
“Deemed Appropriate” by the Secretary.
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8 SEC. 182. PURPOSE.
9 The
purpose of sections 183 through 189 of this sub10
title is to promote the domestic development and deploy11
ment of clean energy technologies required for the 21st
12 century
through the establishment of a self-sustaining
13 Clean
Energy Deployment Administration that will pro14
vide for an attractive investment environment through
15 partnership
with and support of the private capital market
16 in
order to promote access to affordable financing for ac17
celerated and widespread deployment of—
18 (1)
clean energy technologies;
19 (2)
advanced or enabling energy infrastructure
20 technologies;
21 (3)
energy efficiency technologies in residential,
22 commercial,
and industrial applications, including
23 end-use
efficiency in buildings; and
24 (4)
manufacturing technologies for any of the
25 technologies
or applications described in this section.
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“energy efficiency technologies in
residential,
commercial, and industrial
applications, including
end-use efficiency in buildings” I think these words have
grave implications and all should read and glean the exact meaning. The words
residential and end-use implicate everyone who lives in a house and uses
electricity. And the fact that they mention: partnership with and support of the
private capital market should be a red flag for everyone.
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1 (2)
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.—
2 (A)
FEES.—Fees collected for administra3
tive expenses shall be available without limita4
tion to cover applicable expenses.
5 (B)
FUND.—To the extent that adminis6
trative expenses are not reimbursed through
7 fees,
an amount not to exceed 1.5 percent of
8 the
amounts in the Fund as of the beginning of
9 each
fiscal year shall be available to pay the ad10
ministrative expenses for the fiscal year nec11
essary to carry out this subtitle.
12 (d)
TRANSFERS OF AMOUNTS.—
13 (1)
IN GENERAL.—The amounts required to be
14 transferred
to the Fund under this section shall be
15 transferred
at least monthly from the general fund
16 of
the Treasury to the Fund on the basis of esti17
mates made by the Secretary of the Treasury.
18 (2)
ADJUSTMENTS.—Proper adjustment shall
19 be
made in amounts subsequently transferred to the
20 extent
prior estimates were in excess of or less than
21 the
amounts required to be transferred.
22 (3)
CASH FLOWS.—Cash flows associated with
23 costs
of the Fund described in section 502(5)(B) of
24 the
Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 (2 U.S.C.
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1 661a(5)(B))
shall be transferred to appropriate
2 credit accounts.
Fees collected and transferred…..Hmmm…..and without
limitation. I wonder where those fees originate? Taxes; our money. And yet, so
far nothing has changed for me. My electic bill is going up; that’s it.
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4 SEC. 185. ENERGY
TECHNOLOGY DEPLOYMENT GOALS.
5 (a)
GOALS.—Not later than 1 year after the
date of
6 enactment
of this Act, the Secretary, after consultation
7 with
the Advisory Council, shall develop and publish for
8 review
and comment in the Federal Register recommended
9 near-,
medium-, and long-term goals (including numerical
10 performance
targets at appropriate intervals to measure
11 progress
toward those goals) for the deployment of clean
12 energy
technologies through the credit support programs
13 established
by section 187 to promote—
14 (1)
sufficient electric generating capacity using
15 clean
energy technologies to meet the energy needs
16 of
the United States;
17 (2)
clean energy technologies in vehicles and
18 fuels
that will substantially reduce the reliance of
19 the
United States on foreign sources of energy and
20 insulate
consumers from the volatility of world en21
ergy markets;
22 (3)
a domestic commercialization and manufac23
turing capacity that will establish the United States
24 as
a world leader in clean energy technologies across
25 multiple
sectors;
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installation of sufficient infrastructure to
2 allow
for the cost-effective deployment of clean en3
ergy technologies appropriate to each region of the
4 United
States;
5 (5)
the transformation of the building stock of
6 the
United States to zero net energy consumption;
7 (6)
the recovery, use, and prevention of waste
8 energy;
9 (7)
domestic manufacturing of clean energy
10 technologies
on a scale that is sufficient to achieve
11 price
parity with conventional energy sources;
12 (8)
domestic production of commodities and
13 materials
(such as steel, chemicals, polymers, and
14 cement)
using clean energy technologies so that the
15 United
States will become a world leader in environ16
mentally sustainable production of the commodities
17 and
materials;
18 (9)
a robust, efficient, and interactive electricity
19 transmission
grid that will allow for the incorpora20
tion of clean energy technologies, distributed genera21
tion, and demand-response in each regional electric
22 grid;
23 (10)
sufficient availability of financial products
24 to
allow owners and users of residential, retail, com25
mercial, and industrial buildings to make energy ef-
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1 ficiency
and distributed generation technology in2
vestments with reasonable payback periods;
3 (11)
sufficient availability of financial services
4 and
support to small businesses developing and de5
ploying clean energy technologies through partner6
ships with private entities that have relevant credit
7 expertise;
and
8 (12)
such other goals as the Secretary, in con9
sultation with the Advisory Council, determines to be
10 consistent
with the purpose stated in section 182.
11 (b)
REVISIONS.—The Secretary shall revise the
goals
12 established
under subsection (a), from time to time as ap13
propriate, to account for advances in technology and
14 changes in energy policy.
Who are they kidding? Zero net energy consumption? Has
anyone told the oil companies; they’ll be very upset. If the equation still
works, oil will become very expensive as this bill is an attempt to relieve the
oil companies of their customers. And if the oil companies can’t produce
acceptable returns for their stockholders……you can fill in the rest.
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4 ‘‘(1) ENERGY CUSTOMER.—The term ‘energy
5 customer’ means a residential customer or a small
6 commercial customer that receives products or
serv7
ices directly or indirectly from a public utility or
