Energy alliance appeals to Senate to reinstate RES

An alliance of US renewable energy companies, environmental groups, labour lobbyists and utility companies have written to Harry Reid, Democrat leader of the Senate, urging him to include a renewable energy standard (RES) in the energy bill which is before the Senate this week.

Last week the Senate dropped the RES from the energy bill when it failed to garner the 60 per cent support of the house required for its passage.

“Without immediate passage, hundreds of thousands of future jobs in the clean energy sector could be lost and surrendered to other countries forever,” says the letter, signed by 17 entities.