NRECA CEO Glenn English testified to the House Conservation, Credit, Energy and Research Subcommittee on May 12, 2010 to emphasize the significant energy efficiency savings for consumers that the Rural Energy Savings Program Act (RESPA), H.R. 4785, can produce. This program would create jobs in rural communities and allow electric cooperatives to avoid building new electricity infrastructure. English told committee members that although the electric cooperative business model encourages efficiency to reduce costs for members, the cooperatives and their consumer members have limited financial resources to undertake these efforts on a large scale. This legislation will allow electric cooperatives to help more consumers overcome the barriers to energy efficiency savings by using the current Rural Utilities Service (RUS) loan program and avoid creating new federal infrastructure.
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