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Press ReleaseFor Immediate Release The Interwest Energy Alliance congratulates Colorado’s State House leadership for its announcement today (attached) forming a House Select Committee on Strategic Renewable Energy. “With the National Renewable Energy Laboratory located in Golden, Colorado is a world leader in renewable energy research and development,” said Interwest’s executive director Craig Cox. “Now Colorado can match this technology leadership with policy leadership.” Cox added that “renewable energy is a growth industry of the future – wind energy is the world’s fastest-growing new source of energy.” He added that “the stable cost of wind energy can act as an important hedge for consumers against the wild swings in fossil fuel prices.” Last fall, for example, consumers of Xcel Energy’s Windsource program saved money on their electricity bills because of wind energy’s price stability. Landon W. Gates, Policy and Government Relations Coordinator of the Colorado Farm Bureau, pointed out that “renewable energy provides great economic opportunities for farmers and ranchers. Ethanol and biodiesel create new markets for crops such as corn, milo, canola and soybeans.” Gates added that “with wind, farmers and ranchers are able to continue to grow crops and graze livestock while preserving our most precious natural resource: water. Renewable energy development and production means value-added for agriculture as well as increased rural economic development.” The Interwest Energy Alliance is a trade association that represents the nation’s leading companies in the wind energy industry, bringing them together with some of the West’s leading non-governmental organizations to facilitate consensus-based approaches to new project development and transmission issues throughout the region. |
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