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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Speaker Media
[mailto:Speaker.Media@okhouse.gov] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 02, 2010 3:07 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Speaker Media<br>
<b>Subject:</b> House Passes Legislation Setting Alternative Energy Goals for
Oklahoma <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>CONTACT:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Jennifer Monies,
Press Secretary<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Oklahoma House
of Representatives<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Office of House
Speaker Chris Benge<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>405-962-7679<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in'><b><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>House Passes Legislation
Setting Alternative Energy Goals for Oklahoma <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>OKLAHOMA CITY
(March 2, 2010) — Legislation seeking to boost Oklahoma’s
alternative energy usage, especially locally-produced natural gas and wind,
overwhelmingly passed the House today. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>House
Bill 3028, by House Speaker Chris Benge, creates the Oklahoma Energy Security
Act.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>The
legislation creates a renewable energy standard for Oklahoma, which will set a
goal for the state that aims to best utilize the state’s abundant natural
resources. The renewable energy standard will be that 15 percent of all
electricity generated within the state by the year 2015 be generated from
renewable energy sources, including wind, solar, geothermal and energy
conservation efforts. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>“Oklahoma
has led the way nationally in alternative energy development, and this
legislation will help ensure we continue to do so as we seek to reduce our
country’s dependence on dangerous foreign oil,” said Benge,
R-Tulsa. “This goal will help expand alternative energy development and
usage in Oklahoma, all while also serving as an economic development tool for
our state.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>About
35 states have some form of renewable portfolio standard. Arkansas is the only
neighboring state without one. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>The
legislation would not serve as a mandate, but instead will set a goal for
Oklahoma energy companies to meet. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>The
bill also creates a natural gas energy standard that will help promote natural
gas energy development in Oklahoma to complement renewable energy sources like
wind. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Additionally,
the bill also seeks to promote wind-energy development in Oklahoma by
increasing the capability of transmitting the electricity generated by wind
across the state through improved transmission capability. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>The
bill calls for the state to work with the Corporation Commission and the
Southwest Power Pool to develop plans to expand transmission capacity in Oklahoma.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Finally,
the bill works to increase the number of compressed natural gas fueling
stations in the state by setting a goal of having one public CNG fueling
station located approximately every 100 miles along the entire interstate
highway system in the state by the year 2015. That goal will increase to at
least one CNG station approximately every 50 miles by the year 2025. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>“We
will continue to push officials in Washington to take note of our progressive
reforms with the hope of influencing federal energy policy,” said Benge.
“Our country’s energy security is intricately tied to our economic
and national security. It is vital we continue to push this issue both at the
local and federal level to further reduce our dependence on OPEC oil.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>The
bill passed the House with a vote of 91-3 and now moves to the Senate for
consideration. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in'><b><span
style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>-30-<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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