Ask your Oregon legislator to support home energy efficiency tax credits

By Sean O'Leary | June 29, 2017

OREGON NEEDS ENERGY EFFICIENCY. CALL OR EMAIL YOUR LEGISLATORS TODAY!

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We have a new and perhaps final chance in this legislative session to assure that Oregon will continue to offer home energy efficiency tax credits to go along with home solar incentives.

Please contact your senator and your representative today and ask them to support the addition of the Home Performance Tax Credit amendment to HB 2066 to go along with its companion, the Residential Incentive for Solar Energy (RISE) amendment.

When you contact your legislators, tell them:

Energy efficiency and home solar tax credits together benefit tens of thousands of Oregon families every year.
They support local energy efficiency businesses and solar installers. They help local merchants sell high-efficiency appliances. And they create local jobs for installers, carpenters, electricians, and laborers.
They’re also one of our most effective ways to fight carbon emissions and climate change.

And, if you’ve personally benefitted from an energy efficiency or home solar tax credit, tell them that too and what it means to you.

To contact your local legislators, click https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/findyourlegislator/leg-districts.html.

Also, reach out to these members of the Joint Committee on Tax Credits that is currently considering HB 2066:

Co-Chair
Senator Mark Hass

Co-Chair
Representative Phil Barnhart

Co-Vice Chair
Senator Brian Boquist

Co-Vice Chair
Representative Cliff Bentz

Co-Vice Chair
Representative Barbara Smith Warner

Member
Senator Herman Baertschiger Jr.

Member
Senator Chuck Riley

Member
Senator Kathleen Taylor

Member
Representative Knute Buehler