Westar Energy has filed for a $31 million dollar rate increase, which would make nearly $500 million in rate increases since 2009. What’s worse, Westar intends to shift the cost burden significantly toward residential and small business customers and away from large institutional users, which will actually see their rates go down under this current [...]
Advocacy
Help Protect the State Renewable Portfolio Standard!
February 18, 2013 – 3:32 pm
What’s at Stake The most important policy Kansas has on its books to support and expand renewable energy in Kansas is the Renewable Portfolio Standard, or RPS. Adopted in 2009, the RPS directs that certain investor-owned utilities (KCP&L and Westar mostly) get a certain percentage of their energy requirements from renewables – 10% by 2010, [...]
Don’t roll back renewable-energy standards
February 13, 2013 – 2:42 pm
Op-ed by Kansas IPL Director Rabbi Moti Rieber, published on February 12, 2013 in the Wichita Eagle. People of faith are called to be responsible stewards of God’s Creation. That’s why Kansas Interfaith Power and Light is one of a number of business, agricultural, energy, environmental and faith-based groups supporting the most effective state policy [...]
Action Alert: Sign the petition, Renew the PTC!
September 20, 2012 – 11:39 am
The development of clean energy is having a positive impact on the health of our citizens, and the beauty of our state. We have the ability today to generate a large percentage of our energy from renewable sources, helping to avoid climate disruption and protecting God’s Creation. One such policy, the federal Production Tax Credit, [...]
Testimony by Kansas IPL Director Rabbi Moti Rieber in opposition to HR 6018 – Opposition to UN Agenda 21
April 26, 2012 – 2:49 pm
Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, thank you for allowing me to testify today. My name is Rabbi Moti Rieber, and I’m the Director of Kansas Interfaith Power & Light, a statewide nonprofit organization that engages faith communities in environmental stewardship and sustainable practices through the promotion of energy efficiency, energy conservation, and renewable energy. [...]
Testimony by Kansas IPL in opposition to HB 2446 – Renewable energy standards and energy storage
March 15, 2012 – 3:37 pm
My name is Rabbi Moti Rieber, and I am the Director of Kansas Interfaith Power & Light, a statewide nonprofit organization that engages faith communities in environmental stewardship and sustainable practices through the promotion of energy efficiency, energy conservation, and renewable energy. I am submitting testimony in opposition to the amended version of HB 2446. [...]
Advocating on Behalf of God’s Creation
March 8, 2012 – 11:40 pm
by Jerry Rees Member, Advocacy Committee of Sustainable Sanctuary Coalition Member, Advocacy Committee of Presbyterians for Earth Care Chair, Advocacy Committee of Kansas Interfaith Power & Light Our Call and Our Purpose: People of faith are called to be bold advocates for environmental justice for all God’s people and all God’s Creation. We are called to [...]