Comments on: NESEA Goes to the White House http://www.nesea.org/uncategorized/nesea-goes-to-the-white-house/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nesea-goes-to-the-white-house We Connect Sustainability Professionals to Ideas and Each Other. Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:06:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Tom Thompson http://www.nesea.org/uncategorized/nesea-goes-to-the-white-house/#comment-239 Tom Thompson Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:12:20 +0000 http://www.nesea.org/blog/?p=430#comment-239 Congratulations Jennifer on both your attendance at this event and your representation of NESEA in this brave new administration. As a former ED of NESEA, I know what a huge victory this is and how it positions NESEA to lead this effort! Clearly, as supportive as the President is, the battle is still underway and the renewables/efficiency/systems thinking crowd is losing. In fact, all breathing, sentient beings have their backs against the wall on this matter. The history in New England states is at best a start & stop record for both efficiency and renewables. To that end, I look forward to working with you and all NESEA members to enact policies - primarily at the state level where electric policies are really made in the US - to implement incentive programs that are predictable, stable and certain over a time horizon needed to recoup the financial investment. Germany is the best example of this, with their feed in tariff mechanism. Thank you again and congratulations Jennifer. Tom Thompson Congratulations Jennifer on both your attendance at this event and your representation of NESEA in this brave new administration. As a former ED of NESEA, I know what a huge victory this is and how it positions NESEA to lead this effort!
Clearly, as supportive as the President is, the battle is still underway and the renewables/efficiency/systems thinking crowd is losing. In fact, all breathing, sentient beings have their backs against the wall on this matter. The history in New England states is at best a start & stop record for both efficiency and renewables. To that end, I look forward to working with you and all NESEA members to enact policies – primarily at the state level where electric policies are really made in the US – to implement incentive programs that are predictable, stable and certain over a time horizon needed to recoup the financial investment. Germany is the best example of this, with their feed in tariff mechanism. Thank you again and congratulations Jennifer. Tom Thompson

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