Tournament: SFSU | Round: 3 | Opponent: Fullerton BS | Judge:
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The current tax code discriminates against local and public entities that want to produce residential solar- only shifting away from tax credits solves.
Farrell 12 John Farrell directs the Energy Self-Reliant States and Communities program at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and he focuses on energy policy developments that best expand the benefits of local ownership and dispersed generation of renewable energy. “Rooftop Revolution Changing Everything with Cost-Effective Local Solar” Institute for Local self-reliance, march http://www.ilsr.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/rooftop-revolution-ilsr.pdf
But keeping solar … in cash rather than credit.

Plan: The United States Federal Government should provide Section 1603 Cash Grants to nontaxable entities and individuals for community and residential solar power.

People will say yes- multiple examples prove there is a growing grassroots movement for DG.
Bronin 10 Sara C. Bronin Associate Professor of Law, University of Connecticut “Curbing Energy Sprawl with Microgrids” December, 2010 Connecticut Law Review 43 Conn. L. Rev. 547 lexis

Lower infrastructure costs, … microgrids is now.
And – DG is a bottom up approach, solving grid blackouts means abandoning the state,
Morris ‘03
Blackout: Energy History Repeats Itself by David Morris David Morris is co-founder of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and directs its initiative on The Public Good. He is the author of New City States and four other non-fiction books. His essays on public policy are regularly published by On the Commons, Alternet, Common Dreams and the Huffington Post. Originally published on TomPaine.com, August 15, 2003 http://www.ilsr.org/blackout-energy-history-repeats-itself/
On November 9, 1965 …democratic electricity system.
Localist politics is overly simplified by mainstream and radical politics in the squo. Localism creates critical sites of resistance to large corporations and social inequality and injustice.
Hess 9 David J. professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University and member of the Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment. Localist Movements in a Global Economy, Sustainability, Justice, and Urban Development in the United States
The continuities of …the nonprofit sector.

 
ADV 1 - FINANCIAL SPECULATION

The financialization of energy turns the power to decide energy decisions over to Wall Street. It’s a way of sidelining future discussions of what are society should look like and it minimizes the amount of people able to participate in energy decision-making
Hildyard et al 12 Nicholas, The Corner House, Larry Lohmann and Sarah Sexton.12 Energy Security For Whom? For What? February 2012
“Moving to the market,” … this “energy security revolution.” 

The financialization of energy is part of a larger attempt by capital to decide life and death. This form of neo-liberalism creates disposable populations and feed’s a disinterest in politics
Giroux 8   * Henry A. McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada Social Identities, Vol. 14, No. 5, September 2008, 587-620

Most of these … the New Gilded Age.

Wall Street’s understanding of risk condemns the world to poverty and misery

Minda 10 *Gary, Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School. American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law, 18 Am. U.J. Gender Soc. Pol'y and L. 649

Before the financial … a failure of capitalism.

Enabling individuals to become energy producers rebuilds our understanding of a global form of inter-connectness
Rifkin 3        Jeremy, 2003, The Hydrogen Economy, p. 243.

Were all individuals … interaction as commercial exchange.

The movement to local production in the US creates opportunities for the developing world – which has a democratizing and stabilizing effect on world trade and the global economy, improving the future of millions of people through clean energy.
Marsden 10 D ISTRIBUTED GENERATION SYSTEMS : A NEW PARADIGM FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY Janet, Member, IEEE, Syracuse School Research Fellow November 15, http://syr.academia.edu/JanetMarsden/Papers/430835/DISTRIBUTED_GENERATION_SYSTEMS_A_NEW_PARADIGM_FOR_SUSTAINABLE_ENERGY
Providing local power …through clean energy.

Our form of politics protects PLACE-BASED COMMUNTIES from being controlled by global corporations. Only the plan JOINs FORCES WITH COMMUNTITIES who are building a more equitable global economy

Hess 9 David J. professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University and member of the Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment. Localist Movements in a Global Economy, Sustainability, Justice, and Urban Development in the United States
However, it is also … and environmental goals.
EVEN IF local energy FAILS, it’ll provide examples that the system can’t be reformed
YANITY 4  Electrical Designer responsible for a variety of energy projects. NANA Pacific, Columbia, Brian, Engineering, International Socialist Organization, Socialism and the Energy Question, 4/27, http://www.upsidedownworld.org/energyquestiontwo.htm

When decisions about … is not reformable.
ADV 2 – FOSSIL CAPITALISM

Capitalism’s drive for profit ignores human and environmental harms. The drive for energy production has meant incalculable harms. For example, coal mining communities have become invisible, “redundant populations,” ignored after their profitability is depleted,

Fox 5 Julia Fox University of Oregon“Mountaintop Removal in West Virginia: An Environmental Sacrifice Zone” Leslie King, Deborah McCarthy, 2005. Environmental Sociology: From Analysis to Action http://books.google.com/books?id=ol2b0nmgGwECanddq

Historically, West Virginia … in efficiency lie human and ecological costs that are incalculable.

CENTRALIZED ENERGY CREATES LARGE FACTORIES and perpetuates FOSSIL CAPITALISM
Hildyard et al 12 Nicholas, The Corner House, Larry Lohmann and Sarah Sexton.12 Energy Security For Whom? For What? February 2012
Uppercase Energy is … the belief in infinite economic growth.37

The plan is critical to building a political constituency in support of decentralized renewable energy
Farrell 11 (John, “Democratizing the Electricity System: A Vision for the 21st Century Grid” The New Rules Project, June 2011)
Distributed generation offers … carbon-based electricity system.
 
ADV 3 – LAND GRABS
Land grabs – their corporations will depend on large-scale transportation corridors
Safransky and Wolford 11  Sara Safransky and Wendy Wolford, Paper, Paper presented at the International Conference on Global Land Grabbing, Organised by the Land Deals Politics Initiative (LDPI) in collaboration with the Journal of Peasant Studies and hosted by the Future Agricultures Consortium at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, April
Much like roads … and urban informality.

NATURAL GAS IS A LAND ACQUISITION MACHINE
Goodell 12  - Jeff, contributing editor at Rolling Stone and a frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine and Yale University’s Environment 360. Winner of 2011 Grantham Prize Award of Special Merit. Rolling Stone, The Big Fracking Bubble: 3-1

By 2003, Chesapeake had …going into debt.

The impact is a holocaust of species extinction

TRAINER 11   Ted, Conjoint Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales. RENEWABLE ENERGY – CANNOT SUSTAIN AN ENERGY-INTENSIVE SOCIETY.  7-25 

The holocaust of species … on which they depend for life.

The aff represents a form of anti-grab resistance
WILLIAMS 12, ISR, Issue 81 • January-February The politics of climate change activism, http://www.isreview.org/issues/81/rev-climatejustice.shtml
The unholy trinity …in the face of the corporate onslaught.

Tournament: SFSU | Round: R2 | Opponent: Cal Poly SLO | Judge:
ADV 1: Grid

Massive blackouts coming- accidents, storms, and cyber attacks.
Hildyard et al 12 Nicholas, The Corner House, Larry Lohmann and Sarah Sexton.12 Energy Security For Whom? For What? February 2012
By the same token, …protection challenges.

Increasing demand and old infrastructure increases the likelihood of blackouts.
Washington Post 12 “Aging power grid on overload as US demands more electricity” 8/1 http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/aging-power-grid-on-overload-as-us-demands-more-electricity/2012/08/01/gJQAB5LDQX_story.html

The United States … electrical infrastructure whole.
Tanks the economy.
Bruch and Hunter 12 MICHAEL BRUCH Head of RandD Risk Consulting LARRY HUNTER Risk Engineer Allianz Risk Consulting Worldwide risk consulting, risk management and loss investigation services for corporate, industrial and specialty risks. Energy risks: Power trip http://www.agcs.allianz.com/assets/PDFs/GRD/GRD%20individual%20articles/Power_blackout_risks_article.pdf
Many companies are … can take weeks.

Even if there isn’t a large-scale blackout, electricity unreliability costs $500 billion of the GDP, massive unemployment, and decreased competitiveness in trade.

EDR 2011 Economic Development Research Group, Inc. (EDR Group), is a consulting firm focusing specifically on applying state-of-the-art tools and techniques for evaluating economic development performance, impacts, and opportunities. La Capra Associates is an independent consulting firm which has specialized in the electric, natural gas and water industries for over 30 years. This report was prepared for the American Society of Civil Engineers by Economic Development Research Group, Inc. in association with La Capra Associates. FAiluRE to ACt The economic impacT of current Investment trends In ElEctr icity Infrastructure http://www.asce.org/uploadedFiles/Infrastructure/Failure_to_Act/energy_report_FINAL2.pdf
If annual investments …will be most harmed.

Nuclear war
Mead 09 Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, Only Makes You Stronger, The New Republic, www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=571cbbb9-2887-4d81-8542-92e83915f5f8andp=2
The greatest danger … still have to fight.

Independently, a long term blackout destroys civilization as we know it.
Reynolds 12 Glenn Harlan Reynolds is Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee “U.S. Woefully Unprepared for a Blackout Like India’s: Analysis” Popular Mechanics August 6 http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/infrastructure/us-woefully-unprepared-for-a-blackout-like-indias-analysis-11413652
But don’t get too … without power for days. 

ADV 2: Financial Speculation
Current tax credits for renewables bolster the tax equity industry of banks and Wall Street firms who reap all the profit
Farrell 12 John Farrell is an Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) senior researcher specializing in energy policy developments that best expand the benefits of local ownership and dispersed generation of renewable energy. Energy Self Reliant States, 4-19
A regular tax credit …to finance projects.

Now is the time to pay attention. NEW INVESTORS ARE CREEPING INTO THE THIRD-PARTY SOLAR FINANCING MARKET
Linder and Di Capua 12 -- Stefan Linder, Analyst, Clean Energy Economics, Michel Di Capua, Head of Research, North America, Bloomberg New Energy Finance. US SOLAR – WHITE PAPER, 6-4
US solar financing … from distributed generation.

Financial trading of energy ensures future Enrons -  high prices and bankrupt states
Coile 4   Zachary, SF Gate, New evidence of Enron schemes /
6-15, http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/New-evidence-of-Enron-schemes-Documents-tapes-2713873.php#ixzz25SsxruqA
Enron, which was …Belden said in the Aug. 8, 2000, call.

ENRON SHORTAGES empirically have caused higher energy prices and cost billions of dollars
Hildyard et al 12 Nicholas, The Corner House, Larry Lohmann and Sarah Sexton.12 Energy Security For Whom? For What? February 2012
Market manipulation and … practices still continue.

Independently, depending on third party Wall Street financing jacks up the cost of energy
Farrell 10  John, GRIST, How renewable incentives affect project ownership, 12-7
It’s not just … most revenues local.

THE government’s pitiful solar policy ensures a weak manufacturing sector and a reduced work-force
Valenza 12   Tor advises solar companies on marketing, communications, and public relations. Why the 1603 Treasury Grant Program Matters to Solar and RE, Renewable Energy World, 3-16, http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/blog/post/2012/03/26-senators-go-on-the-record-we-dont-support-solar-jobs-or-any-renewable-energy-jobs
Now, watch the …, including the ITC.

Manufacturing is critical to creating an economy not built on Wall Street speculation
Elk 10   Mike Elk is a third-generation union organizer and journalist whose work appears frequently in In These Times. He previously worked for Campaign for America's Future and the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers (UE).  AlterNet, 8-26, http://www.alternet.org/story/147957/despite_fresh_rhetoric_about_saving_u.s._manufacturing%2C_obama_is_quietly_pushing_failed_bush_trade_policies
Rebuilding an economy …of big financiers.

As companies financialize their debt -- they are creating the conditions for another recession – high energy means consumers can’t pay mortgages and can’t pay for food
Lipson 11  Daniel N. Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at SUNY New Paltz, New Political Science Volume 33, Issue 4, pages 555-575
At the macro level, … goods and services. 

Rising energy prices cause resource wars, inhumane austerity measures, famine, pandemics and turn America into Detroit
Lipson 11  Daniel N. Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at SUNY New Paltz, New Political Science Volume 33, Issue 4, pages 555-575
Peak oil experts … lower gas prices. 

A cash grant prevents banks from upping the price of energy
Farrell 11 (John, “Democratizing the Electricity System: A Vision for the 21st Century Grid” The New Rules Project, June 2011)
In addition to limiting … tax credits to bankers.10

Plan: The United States Federal Government should provide Section 1603 Cash Grants to nontaxable entities for community and residential solar power. 

Solvency

Providing cash grants to nontaxable entities key to make solar competitive on the local level.
Farrell 12 John Farrell directs the Energy Self-Reliant States and Communities program at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and he focuses on energy policy developments that best expand the benefits of local ownership and dispersed generation of renewable energy. “Rooftop Revolution Changing Everything with Cost-Effective Local Solar” Institute for Local self-reliance, march http://www.ilsr.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/rooftop-revolution-ilsr.pdf
But keeping solar … rather than credit.

Community solar solves intermittency of solar.
Bailey 12 Insecurity For Community Solar: Three Strategies To Confront An Emerging Tension Between Renewable Energy Investment And Federal Securities Laws Kristin L. Bailey J.D. Candidate, University of Colorado Law School Class of 2012. http://www.jthtl.org/content/articles/V10I1/JTHTLv10i1_Bailey.PDF January 2012 Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law;Winter2012, Vol. 10 Issue 1, p123

Community solar is a term with varying definitions, but for purposes of this Note “community solar” will refer to “the ability of multiple users—often lacking the proper on-site solar resource, fiscal capacity or building ownership rights—to purchase a portion of their electricity from a solar facility located off-site.” 10 Other community solar models are variations on this idea, often influenced by state and local law. 11 Traditionally, solar installations …project described below. 12

DG increases critical infrastructure’s ability to island
DOE 7 (“The Potential Benefits Of Distributed ¶ Generation And Rate-Related Issues ¶ That May Impede Their Expansion¶ A Study Pursuant To Section 1817¶ Of The Energy Policy Act Of 2005” http://www.ferc.gov/legal/fed-sta/exp-study.pdf)
To address the … generation in the system (Zerriffi 2004).”  

It diversifies backup generation
Hirsh et al. 5 (Richard F. Hirsh, Benjamin K. Sovacool, and Ralph D. Badinelli “Distributed Generation and Momentum Change in the American Electric Utility System: A Social-science systems Approach” Electric Power Networks Efficiency and Security.)
Surprisingly, perhaps, DG …to an attack.34 

It solves cascading failures and ensures power for critical infrastructure.
Andres and Loudermilk 12 Richard B. Andres, PhD, is Professor of National Security Strategy at the National War College and Senior Fellow and Chair of the Energy and Environmental Security Policy Program with the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University. Micah J. Loudermilk is Senior Research Associate for the Energy and Environmental Security Policy Program with the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University, contracted through ASE, Inc. “National Security and Distributed Power Generation” No. 24, Sep 2012 http://livebettermagazine.com/eng/magazine/article_detail.lasso?id=352and-session=user_pref:42F9487313cd739475NXKWN2440B

TODAY, PEOPLE OF …large scale failure.

It spurs innovation and solves peak load issues.
Andres and Loudermilk 12 Richard B. Andres, PhD, is Professor of National Security Strategy at the National War College and Senior Fellow and Chair of the Energy and Environmental Security Policy Program with the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University. Micah J. Loudermilk is Senior Research Associate for the Energy and Environmental Security Policy Program with the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University, contracted through ASE, Inc. “National Security and Distributed Power Generation” No. 24, Sep 2012 http://livebettermagazine.com/eng/magazine/article_detail.lasso?id=352and-session=user_pref:42F9487313cd739475NXKWN2440B
 DECENTRALIZED SYSTEM ALSO HAS … peak load problems.

People will say yes- multiple examples prove there is a growing grassroots movement for DG.
Bronin 10 Sara C. Bronin Associate Professor of Law, University of Connecticut “Curbing Energy Sprawl with Microgrids” December, 2010 Connecticut Law Review 43 Conn. L. Rev. 547 lexis

Lower infrastructure costs, … microgrids is now.
Localist politics is overly simplified by mainstream and radical politics in the squo. Localism creates critical sites of resistance to large corporations and social inequality and injustice.
Hess 9 David J. professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University and member of the Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment. Localist Movements in a Global Economy, Sustainability, Justice, and Urban Development in the United States
The continuities of … the nonprofit sector.