政府は行くために緑家のための刺激を提供するべきである

によって ハンクKalet |

連邦政府は自家所有者が緑行くのを助けるべきである。

複数の州は既に自家所有者を汚れた燃料から家によって緑回転家を蹴始めるクリーンエネルギーの源に転換するために励ます方法を追求している。

ニュージャージーでは、州議会は最近homebuildersが選択としてバイヤーに太陽エネルギーシステムを提供するように要求する法案を可決した。 そして州政府は既存のハウジングで太陽取付けに補助金および貸付け金を提供する。

Communities, neighborhood groups and educational facilities in New Mexico are experimenting with solar and biomass systems, and dozens of cities and counties around the country are doing the same.

Take a look at California, where several cities are offering homeowners the opportunity to finance the installation of solar power the same way most public water, sewer or gas-line projects are financed ― over a 20-year period to be paid back as a special assessment on a homeowner’s property taxes.

Cities and towns, however, have to get the money to finance these programs. Berkeley, the first city in California to create a public-financing program, turned to the banks for financing. Palm Desert, another California community that offers financing, used its own reserves to get its pilot project off the ground.

But interest in such programs could outstrip the ability of local governments to procure financing, which is why the federal government must step in.

Most states and towns face tight budgets because revenue has become scarce and their budgets, by law, have to be balanced.

Federal money ought to be made available ― as it has for energy-efficiency projects and large-scale conversions of the energy grid.

By engaging individual homeowners in going green, we will not only reduce our carbon footprint one household at a time. We will simultaneously be building the larger constituency we’ll need to arrive at our clean energy future.

Hank Kalet is online editor and columnist for The Princeton Packet newspaper group in New Jersey. He can be reached at pmproj@progressive.org.

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