Action Alert from Mary PIRG

Please contact your state Senators and Delegates and ask them to vote the following way on three bills having to do with energy efficiency.

SUPPORT SB 205/HB 374: EmPOWER Maryland Energy Efficiency Act

This bill would codify Gov. O’Malley’s plan to reduce statewide per-capita electricity consumption and peak demand by 15 percent by 2015. If passed, this bill will save Maryland consumers $1.9 billion by 2015 and $4.1 billion by 2020 in avoided electricity costs, will avoid construction of two large fossil fuel power plants and eliminate 35 billion pounds of carbon dioxide, which is the equivalent to taking three million cars off the road.

SUPPORT SB 268/HB 368: Maryland Strategic Energy Investment Fund

This bill will give the Maryland Energy Administration the resources to offer energy efficiency services to underserved markets that the utility companies won’t address. The fund will be financed through the upcoming sale of carbon allowances to power plants as part of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which Maryland joined as part of the 2006 Healthy Air Act.

OPPOSE SB 417/HB 608: This bill would make it impossible to run effective statewide energy efficiency programs. If lawmakers are serious about lowering bills and using energy in the state more wisely, they should oppose SB 417/HB 608.

You can e-mail your legislators directly by clicking on http://marylandpirg.org/action/template/lower_bills

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