UPDATE | SB273 and AB401 | Jobs Creation Companion Bills now included in draft Climate Change Legislation

 

With 14,800 more Wisconsinites having lost their jobs from October to November, it’s important to note that legislation authored by Senator Jeff Plale  and Representative Ted Zigmunt will put unemployed workers back to work NOW. 

 

The bills act to include “direct-use” renewable technologies such as Orion’s Apollo® Solar Light Pipe in Wisconsin’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS).  Inclusion in the RPS will create new manufacturing jobs at Orion Energy Systems’ world headquarters in Manitowoc (WI) as well as across the state in the construction trades – the employment sector hardest hit in America’s economic downturn. 

 

The companion bills, which have had public hearings in both the Assembly and the Senate this past September, have been included in the draft of the Climate Change legislation LRB -3883/1 that is slated to be introduced early in 2010. 

 

Orion endorses both the independent legislation as well as the Climate Change legislation as jobs creation mechanisms.  This inclusion of “direct-use renewables” in Wisconsin’s Renewable Portfolio Standard will definitely put our state’s unemployed back to work. 

 

Orion Energy Systems strongly encourages the passage of legislation that includes “direct-use renewables” in our state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard before the end of the 2010 winter/spring floor period, and the sooner the better. 

 

Our legislature needs to act to put Wisconsin’s unemployed back to work!

 

Kevin

Kevin Crawford  

Vice President  | Governmental Affairs Division

Orion Energy Systems

2210 Woodland Dr. | Manitowoc, WI 54220

ph. 920.482.1978     

kmc@oesx.com

 

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 Orion Energy Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OESX) is a leading power technology enterprise that designs, manufactures and implements energy management systems, consisting primarily of high-performance, energy-efficient lighting systems, controls and related services for commercial and industrial customers without compromising their quantity or quality of light. Orion’s technology was recently recognized with a Platts Global Energy Award for the single most innovative and sustainable green technology of 2008. Orion has deployed its energy management systems in 5,082 facilities across North America. Since 2001, Orion technology has displaced more than 477 megawatts, saving customers more than $710 million and reducing indirect carbon dioxide emissions by 6.1 million tons. For more information, visit www.oesx.com.