From the World Future press release:
"Hosted by the World Future Council, Congressman Jay Inslee from Washington
State and Congressman William Delahunt from Massachusetts held a briefing
on feed-in tariff renewable energy policy yesterday. In a packed room
at the House of Representatives Congressman Inslee stated: “The two
hottest things in America today are the iPhone and feed-in tariffs.
In order to solve the security problems of the grid we need to foster
multiple technologies and feed-in tariff policy (FIT) accomplishes that
goal.”
Energy security
expert James Woolsey, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency,
stated that “the grid is vulnerable to cyber and physical attacks.
We [US] don’t do renewable energy well and part of the problem is
our focus on utility scale power plant instead of distributed generation.
Let’s give credit to the Germans for their approach. We have a chance
if we get behind this policy. Vermont has it [Feed-in Tariff policy]
right. We need to make a push and get busy.”
75 people attended
including the staff from over 20 House Members. Inslee and Delahunt
are planning to re-introduce the federal feed-in tariff bill, with some
small changes. They are also planning to add a section on Federal financing
for municipal feed-in tariff projects.
Randy Hayes, World
Future Council, and James Bradbury from Congressman Inslee’s office
opened the briefing and moderated the panel. One participant commented
it was great to see that people were no longer asking what a feed-in
tariff is but how to implement it."