PRINTER'S NO. 2004
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE RESOLUTION
No.
420
Session of
2018
INTRODUCED BY BROWNE, BARTOLOTTA, FONTANA, GREENLEAF, DINNIMAN,
BLAKE, COSTA, BAKER, MENSCH, HUGHES, SABATINA, KILLION AND
RAFFERTY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2018
INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED, SEPTEMBER 24, 2018
A RESOLUTION
Designating the week of September 23 through 29, 2018, as "Clean
Energy Week" in Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, Across this Commonwealth, clean and readily abundant
forms of energy are powering more homes and businesses than ever
before; and
WHEREAS, Pennsylvania is committed to clean and renewable
energy that benefits our economy and environment; and
WHEREAS, Clean and renewable energy is part of America's
energy future and includes generation from multiple renewable
resources; and
WHEREAS, The clean and renewable energy sector is a growing
part of this Commonwealth's economy, growing at a current rate
of more than 2% annually, and has been a key driver of economic
growth in Pennsylvania in recent years with the number of jobs
in the clean and renewable energy sector in Pennsylvania now
standing at more than 86,000; and
WHEREAS, The production costs of clean and renewable energy
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are now the lowest in United States history, averaging $45 per
megawatt hour, and are steadily declining as clean and renewable
energy technologies continue to improve; and
WHEREAS, These trends, emerging through a broad base of
project developers and investors, especially the Pennsylvania
banking sector, are making clean and renewable energy projects
more accessible than ever before to Pennsylvania farms,
communities and local governments; and
WHEREAS, With the recent passage of Act 30 of 2018, the
Commonwealth's bi-partisan Property Assessed Clean Energy
legislation, Pennsylvania's county governments are now
positioned to support low-interest financing for small
businesses and others in the commercial sector that wish to
invest in clean and renewable energy to create jobs and grow the
economy of this Commonwealth; and
WHEREAS, The United States Department of Defense and its
partners in the Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans
Affairs have, through their efficiency and clean energy
generation efforts at the Fort Indiantown Gap Warrior Training
Grounds, set a new standard for National Guard and Reserve
installations across the country and continues to promote
national security through the domestic development of clean and
renewable energy and consequent reductions on imported energy
from regimes hostile to the United States; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the Senate designate the week of September 23
through 29, 2018, as "Clean Energy Week" in Pennsylvania.
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