Bonini calls for scrapping of green energy regulations

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State Senator Colin Bonini and gubernatorial candidate Colin Bonini,  released the fifth item in a series of policy proposals,  this time calling for reforms in utility costs and regulations.

In releasing the proposal, Bonini, R-Dover,  stated, “Delaware has some of the highest electricity rates in the country.  Delaware consumers pay 120 percent of the national average for electricity and businesses are even worse off, paying 130 percent of the national average.  In some municipalities, these numbers are even higher.”

He went on to add, ” “We must eliminate onerous regulations that serve no real purpose or show real improvement to the environment.  Such regulations have only grown the cost of utilities imposed each month on already struggling middle-class families.  In my own senate district, there are couples who have four part-time jobs between them, not to have extra money, but just to make ends meet.  We cannot continue to burden Delawareans with regulations that drive businesses to other states.”

In a “white paper”  that accompanied the to-do list,  Bonini said,  “Delaware has some of the most extreme environmental regulations and alternative energy mandates in the country, including the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), the Sustainable Energy Utility, The Green Energy Fund, mandated alternative energy use, and, of course, the Bloom Surcharge that’s added to electric bills. It’s no wonder that Delaware consumers and businesses are paying too much for electricity.”

He went on to call for the state to pull out of the RGGI. New Jersey, under Republican Gov. Chris Christie, left   the multi-state group and Maryland, under GOP Gov. Larry Hogan has indicated its unhappiness with raising the percentage of power received from renewable sources.

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Bonini’s  position mirrors that of the Caesar Rodney Institute, a  public policy group that has been a long-time critic of the state’s alternative energy mandates

 

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