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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2016
State House signals support of
subsidy for large solar projects
IRS on the line
looking for money?
Most likely a scam
J. Russell George, Treasury
Department inspector gen-
WASHINGTON — The eral for tax administration.
Treasury Department has a “It is critical that all taxpay-
message for taxpayers get- ers continue to be wary of
ting calls from the IRS unsolicited telephone calls
demanding immediate pay- and e-mails from individuals
ment: Hang up.
claiming to be IRS and Trea-
Those aggressive, threat- sury employees.”
ening calls are coming from
The agency has responded
phone scammers. And they with public service announce-
are successful, too, cost- ments reminding people that
ing more than 5,000 victims the IRS sends letters rather
more than $26.5 million since than calling taxpayers.
October 2013. About 900,000
“If someone unexpectedly
scammer contacts were calls claiming to be from the
reported during that period.
IRS and uses threatening lan-
The callers fraudulently guage if you do not pay imme-
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demand that taxpayers imme- not the IRS calling, and your
diately send them payment. cue to hang up,” George said.
They often have some personal
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criminal charges unless imme- an “IRS impersonation scam”
diate payment is made.
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Associated Press
By HILLARY BORRUD
Capital Bureau
SALEM — State House
lawmakers from both sides of
the aisle have signaled their
support for a bill that would
encourage large solar projects
in Oregon.
The House Committee
on Energy and Environment
voted unanimously on Thurs-
day to send the bill to the bud-
get writing Joint Committee
on Ways and Means.
House Bill 4037 would
create a state subsidy of half
a cent per kilowatt hour of
energy generated from qual-
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Legislative staff have yet to
put a price tag on the legisla-
tion, but a solar industry repre-
sentative who drafted the bill
estimated it could cost $5.7
million. The money would
come from the state general
fund.
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Oregon incentive for solar
projects: The state issued
more than $50 million in
business energy tax credits
for solar between 2006 and
2014, according to data from
the Oregon Department of
Energy. Still, Environment
Oregon state director Rikki
Seguin told lawmakers that
only 0.02 percent of the state’s
energy comes from the sun.
David Brown, a senior
principal at Obsidian Finance
Group LLC in Lake Oswego,
drafted the bill with input from
other interested parties. Brown
said the company has built the
state’s three largest solar proj-
ects, and plans to build another
large project in southern Ore-
gon by the end of this year.
Brown said House Bill
4037 would provide much
smaller incentives for solar
projects, which makes sense
because prices have decreased.
His company developed the
5 megawatt Outback project
in southern Oregon, which
received a $10 million busi-
ness energy tax credit. Brown
said the production sub-
Courtesy of Obsidian Renewables
The Outback project in southern Oregon, east of Christmas Valley. The five-megawatt
project provides power for Portland General Electric.
sidy would provide a total of
$250,000 to $300,000 to a
similarly sized project.
“When the (business
energy tax credit) died, the
solar program for larger proj-
ects stopped,” Brown said.
“And so ironically, the (busi-
ness energy tax credit) hurt
solar development more than
it helped it ... I think this bill
is a recognition that a small
amount of targeted invest-
ment paid only for guaran-
teed results is still a good idea
in Oregon. But it took a long
time for the dark cloud of the
(business energy tax credit) to
start to clear away.”
The bill does contain lan-
guage intended to ensure ben-
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actually produce energy. If
a project sits idle and does
not produce energy, the state
would reduce the length of
the subsidy under the bill.
Projects that do not produce
power within two years would
be kicked out of the program,
under an amendment added
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to the bill before lawmakers
voted it out of committee.
Solar project developers
would have only until Jan. 2,
2017 to apply for the program,
and the subsidy would be lim-
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of solar projects to be accepted
into the program. The subsidy
would only be available for
2 to 10 megawatt projects in
Oregon.
The program would sunset
in 2023. Any one program par-
ticipant can only get the sub-
sidy for up to 35 megawatts of
solar.
State Rep. Cliff Bentz,
R-Ontario, was one of the
Republicans who voted to
move the bill out of the House
Committee on Energy and
Environment. Bentz said the
solar subsidy would be key
to ensuring solar projects are
built in Oregon, if lawmak-
ers pass a bill this session to
double the state’s renewable
energy mandate for the state’s
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Corp and Portland General
Electric.
“If (the renewable energy
bill) passes, there is going
to be a lot of green energy
needed,” Bentz said. “We
would of course want to see
as much of that developed in
Oregon as we possibly could.”
Brown said it was not sur-
prising the bill has bipartisan
support.
“Most of the economic
development will occur in the
sunny part of the state, which
is rural,” Brown said.
The Capital Bureau is a
collaboration between EO
Media Group and Pamplin
Media Group.
Five elk killed in crash
near Cullaby Lake
By KYLE SPURR
The Daily Astorian
Five elk were killed after
being struck by a vehicle early
Saturday morning on U.S.
Highway 101 near Cullaby
Lake Lane.
A Seaside man was driv-
ing a 2005 GMC Yukon on the
highway just after 1 a.m. when
he came around the curve in
the road and crashed into the
elk. Two elk were killed by the
impact and three had to be dis-
patched after the crash.
Sgt. Joe Warwick, from the
Oregon State Police Fish and
Wildlife Division, responded
to the scene along with War-
renton Police and the Oregon
Department of Transportation.
Warwick said the deceased
elk were four cows and one
calf. They were from a large
herd that roams between Camp
Rilea Armed Forces Training
Center and Cullaby Lake.
As unfortunate as the
deadly crash was for the elk,
Warwick said, the impact will
be minimal on the large herd.
The GMC Yukon was
totalled from the crash. The
driver was not injured.
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in a half hour. None of the elk
meat was salvaged.
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