Comment Rescue: What’s Going On With the SEU?
Anon posted the following question, and El Somnambulo would hope that our environmental watchdogs could answer it:
“Speaking of environmental stuff… Anyone know what this means?
NEWS FROM THE DELAWARE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL
March 10, 2009
Vol. 39, No. 82
Contact: Charlie Smisson, Delaware Energy Office, 302-735-3480; or Melanie Rapp, Public Affairs, 302-739-9902.Delaware Energy Office Seeks Fiscal Agent for Delaware Sustainable Energy Utility; Proposals Due by April 17
DOVER, Del. – The Delaware Energy Office, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, has issued the Request for Proposals for a contractual fiscal agent for the Delaware Sustainable Energy Utility (SEU), the non-profit entity tasked by the State of Delaware to provide comprehensive energy efficiency and renewable energy services to Delaware households and businesses. Proposals are due to the Delaware Energy Office by April 17.
The Fiscal Agent will manage all financial aspects of the SEU to include: developing and maintaining an accounting system; receiving/disbursing SEU funds under the direction of the Delaware Energy Office; interfacing with revenue authorities; overseeing financial transactions involving renewable energy certificates; and paying SEU invoices.
The complete RFP and timeline, including information on the mandatory bidder’sconference scheduled for March 23, is posted on DNREC’s website, http://www.dnrec.delaware.gov.
For more information or to request a copy of the RFP, contact the Delaware Energy Office by phone, 302-735-3480, or in writing addressed to: Delaware Energy Office, 1203 College Park Drive, Dover DE 19904. For questions or comments, contact Charlie Smisson, State Energy Coordinator, Delaware Energy Office, 302-735-3480 or Charlie.Smisson@state.de.us.
The Delaware Sustainable Energy Task Force was created July 1, 2006 to develop a SEU for the state. The final report was adopted March 28, 2007, and on June 28, 2007,
Governor Ruth Ann Minner signed Senate Bill 18 creating the SEU, a public/private partnership that will focus on energy efficiency, renewable energy use and conservation of energy for Delaware residents and business owners.Senator Harris McDowell was the primary sponsor of Senate Bill 18.”
‘Bulo hopes and expects that someone is keeping a wonkish eagle-eye on this.
Tags: Delaware
Don’t know, but I imagine one would have to go back to the enabling legislation for answers.
Looks like a help wanted ad for a CFO for this newly created regulatory/advisory commitee, the Delaware Sustainable Energy Utility (SEU).
But that’s a big guess.
I have a pretty good handle on it and will post a little on it later. I have been quite under the weather for the last few days. Should be able to put something together soon.
I smell a sweet, highly paid contract going to an insider.
Reis
“I smell a sweet, highly paid contract going to an insider.”
Ahhhhh the sense of smell……it’s beginning to stink
Sponsor Harris McDowell:
excerpt:
….The SEU will coordinate services that target residential, commercial, industrial, and transportation energy end-users in all energy markets, including electricity, heating fuels, green buildings, clean vehicles, customer-sited renewable energy, and affordable energy. The SEU will serve as a comprehensive statewide information clearinghouse, or the “one-stop-shop” for sustainable energy services in Delaware. The SEU will use competitively selected Implementation Contractors to deliver services….Really ?
http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis144.nsf/7712cf7cc0e9227a852568470077336f/1f432fcb78503ead852572ab0074698f?OpenDocument
Is this why McDowell fought tooth and nails against Blue Water Wind ? To the point of bringing in a PAID consultant ?
Did we really need this?
Lets just “recall ” Senate Bill 18 and say all is forgiven. What a waste of money.
Geek, who or what is funding SEU? i.e., where is the money coming from?
65% of the RGGI Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative auction money is earmarked to go to the SEU, (possibly multi-millions of dollars a year). I was the only legislator who objected and still objects since the SEU was passed into code with funding predicated on bond revenue and “no” taxpayer money. This maneuver (RGGI revenue distribution) was supported by DNREC and the industrial reps on the RGGI workgroup joined by overlapping SEU task force/RGGI board members who also served on the RGGI working-group that I was denied a seat on. I was also the only nay vote on the RGGI bill, the right decision then, now and always. I apparently am not very good at educating my colleagues and for that I apologize. Details available upon request but only by phone, since my typing ability gives new meaning to the words tedious and laborious.
John Kowalko
John Kowalko