Last week in PennLive, East Region President of Cordia Mark Schneider praised Governor Josh Shapiro’s new energy plan that would create 15,000 energy jobs, lower utility bills for Pennsylvanians, and take action to address carbon pollution.
After unveiling his plan, Governor Shapiro visited Cordia Energy’s Harrisburg location and joined Mark Schneider and other industry leaders to highlight how his plan will create clean, reliable, and affordable energy to build on the Commonwealth’s legacy as a national energy leader, protect and create energy jobs, address climate change, and lower prices for Pennsylvanians.
Since the announcement, industry, labor, government, and environmental leaders have praised the Governor’s commitment to building on Pennsylvania’s long legacy of energy leadership by protecting and creating energy jobs and lowering electricity costs for consumers.
Said Schneider "
No longer is it quixotic to say that the state where the world’s first oil well was drilled can be a global leader in sustainability. Last week, Gov. Josh Shapiro launched an energy plan bringing to bear novel legislation that, if enacted, empowers the energy industry to make rapid investments in clean energy infrastructure. Communities and legislators must rally behind this plan that galvanizes historic Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) funds. These federal dollars will go to the states that are organized and deliberate.
Let Pennsylvania be that state; let us win.
As the largest district energy provider in Pennsylvania, operating the complex system that heats 120 Harrisburg buildings, including the Capitol Building, Cordia is ramping up operations in advance of IRA-related sustainability investments. When the governor visited our Energy Center Harrisburg, which has been in existence for 134 years, he pointed out that it was once fueled by coal, then oil, then natural gas – but those transitions took decades. The next clean energy transition catapulted by technology innovations and unprecedented federal investments will, in comparison, occur at lightning speed. But not all states will be ready to get on this high-speed-train."
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