| 1. | Mark Bauer | my website | Thu Mar 26, 2009 @ 02:12PM |
I have installed RE systems in Michigan for many years with basically NO net metering laws in place. Many folks up to now have done it out of desire rather than an economical value to gain. With this NEW Net metering plan I see the interest going up, but not at the level maybe the MPSC sees it happening.
Why, well what are they offsetting, cheap 10~12 cents coal power? The encouragement most Americans need to take more action (even Michiganders) is to hit them where it counts, in their pocket book. Cheap fossil fuel energy will always be the driving factor when it comes to decisions on power. People are more concerned about the cost rather than the environment. They really care little to what happens to the generations to follow, it is a sad fact but I’m reminded of it every day. I never have forgotten those famous words said to me many years ago discussing with a person why they should consider making clean energy, maybe even long after they may have died, and he said, and I quote “ I don’t give a S_ _ T what happens after I die” unquote!
If Michigan wants to see fast adoption of RE, it has to raise the cost of conventional fossil fuel prices. Encourage efficiencies, penalize energy wasters and reward folks with more than just a retail rate for clean green electrons. After all, we stampeded alongside other Americans to kill one another in order to get a deal on large screen TV on sale. When are we going too stampeded into our state parks? When we value nature, when we value clean energy and want do whatever it takes to get those clean electrons, is when we as a society will see change. And that change will come, but only when it hurts more to do it any other way! A book recently finished said this, “we will have a solar revolution in this country, when GREED trumps FEAR!”
Mark Bauer
President/CEO of Bauer Power Inc.
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