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Tea party activists seeing red over Delaware's green initiatives
They are seen as the state-backed boost that solar and wind energy need to compete with power generated from fossil fuels in the coming decade.
Trouble is, they may be the next target for Delaware tea party activists, who see them as wasteful government intervention into the free market system that just end up costing consumers more for electricity.
They're renewable energy credits, or RECs.
December 26, 2010
by The News Journal
in Aaron Nathans
System discouraging waste and pollution criticized as meddling with subsidized fossil fuels
DOVER -- They're not exactly money, and they're not a direct government handout.
But they are seen as the state-backed boost that solar and wind energy need to compete with power generated from fossil fuels in the coming decade.
Trouble is, they may be the next target for Delaware tea party activists, who see them as wasteful government intervention into the free market system that just end up costing consumers more for electricity.
They're renewable energy credits, or RECs. Owners of a wind or solar system, big or small, get one... [continue via Web link]
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