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How The GA Passed Energy Efficiency w/o Passing HB 179

Filed in Delaware by on July 1, 2014 17 Comments
How The GA Passed Energy Efficiency w/o Passing HB 179

This is awesome, just the kind of stuff I love. You will no doubt recall, through the writings of Cassandra and others, that Delaware utilities currently cannot offer their customers consumer conservation programs that would save the consumer money and reduce energy usage.

You also know that a bill designed to permit utilities to offer these programs was buried in the Senate Energy Committee, where it had languished for over a year under the watchful eye of SEU founder and Senator Harris McDowell. Which brings us to last night, and, for that matter, this morning. At 3:21:05 am, to beĀ  precise.

No, Sen. McDowell did not relent, nor did he release HB 179 from committee. So, how did this get done?

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