00                    HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 3                                                                    
01 Relating to renewable energy resource development.                                                                      
02 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
03       WHEREAS an adequate, reliable, reasonably priced, and safe supply of electrical                                 
04 energy is necessary for Alaska's basic infrastructure and economic and technological                                    
05 development; and                                                                                                        
06       WHEREAS the Twenty-Third Alaska State Legislature established the Alaska Energy                                 
07 Policy Task Force in 2003 to review and analyze the state's current and long-term energy                                
08 needs; and                                                                                                              
09       WHEREAS a stated goal of the task force in its final report to the legislature is to                            
10 "promote research, development and demonstration of clean renewable energy technologies";                               
11 and                                                                                                                     
12       WHEREAS the task force found that one of the state's long-term energy needs is to                               
13 "identify and evaluate long-term fuel sources," and recommended that the state should                                   
14 "increase the proportion of renewables in long-term fuel sources"; and                                                  
15       WHEREAS the task force recommended that the executive branch "utilize Alaska's                                  
16 abundant renewable resources in the production of hydrogen," which is an emerging future                                
01 fuel for the world; and                                                                                                 
02       WHEREAS the cost of fuels such as natural gas and diesel that Alaskans rely on in                               
03 large part to generate electric power is steadily rising; and                                                           
04       WHEREAS there is virtually no fuel cost associated with renewable energy                                        
05 resources; and                                                                                                          
06       WHEREAS development of the state's infinite renewable energy resources such as                                  
07 wind, geothermal, biomass, hydroelectric, and tidal is essential to the task force's vision to                          
08 have sustainable power for the state; and                                                                               
09       WHEREAS other states and nations are working successfully to exploit their                                      
10 renewable energy resources; and                                                                                         
11       WHEREAS the development of the state's renewable energy resources will aid the                                  
12 state's basic infrastructure and economic and technological development; and                                            
13       WHEREAS the development of renewable energy resources will benefit rural areas of                               
14 the state that are currently burdened by a dependence on expensive nonrenewable energy                                  
15 resources;                                                                                                              
16       BE IT RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature acknowledges the Alaska                                        
17 Energy Policy Task Force for its work to promote the development of Alaska's abundant                                   
18 renewable energy resources; and be it                                                                                   
19       FURTHER RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature encourages Governor                                          
20 Murkowski and his staff to work to increase the production of renewable energy in Alaska                                
21 and bring the benefits of renewable energy to all of its citizens.