Issue Position: Renewable Energy

Issue Position

Solar power is free and renewable. All we need to do is to prepare ourselves to receive the light.

Because Mississippi summers are so hot, Mississippi ranks third highest among the states for electricity consumption per capita per average cooling-degree days.* If Mississippians were to cool their homes through solar power, with the help of a few legislative measures, excess energy could feed back into the grid. This would put Mississippians themselves in the energy business, because everyone would have the opportunity to sell excess energy back to the power companies.

In addition to solar power, there are other energy sources available to us: wind, hydro-electric, coal-gasification, oil-shale, natural gas, geo-thermal, even bio-mass incineration.

Even though the sun shines brightly in Mississippi, not all regions of the United States have everything available to provide their people with 'cheap power'. As it is now, the US does not have a comprehensive National Energy Policy.

The ice age is behind us.

It's time to warm up to newer, more efficient ways to power up!

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