One state representative has introduced at least five green bills this year (including a measure that would allow local governments to create a property tax financing program for solar, along the lines of several California cities)
Kelly LaDuke for The New York Times
Texas wants to be No. 1 in producing energy this way.
By Kate Galbraith
Link to the full article: http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/25/texas-aims-for-solar-dominance/?hp
The Lone Star State leads the country in wind-power. Now Texas aims to ramp up its solar production too.
This week the state senate is considering an avalanche of bills that would boost state incentives for solar power, and the entire legislative session has become known as the “solar session.”
Altogether, according to David Power, the deputy director of Public Citizen Texas, a consumer and environmental advocacy group, there are 69 renewable energy bills before the legislature, and over 50 of them promote solar power — far more than ever before.
“There are senators and representatives that are talking about solar that have never mentioned the word probably in their lives,” he said. “We’ve actually heard the term ‘global warming,’ and two years ago that was called ‘the G word’ — you didn’t talk about it.”
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