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Renewables Definition - Any energy resource that is naturally regenerated over a short time scale and derived directly from the sun (such as thermal, photochemical, and photoelectric), indirectly from the sun (such as wind, hydropower, and photosynthetic energy stored in biomass), or from other natural movements and mechanisms of the environment (such as geothermal and tidal energy).
Renewable energy does not include energy resources derived from fossil fuels, waste products from fossil sources, or waste products from inorganic sources.
Policy Positions - The Texas Renewable Energy Industries Association (TREIA) will promote development of renewable energy and policies that will expand markets and allow all Texans access to renewable energy. TREIA supports policies aimed at achieving the following renewable energy objectives:
PREAMBLE. We, the members of the Texas Renewable Energy Industries Association (TREIA), recognize our duty to the public and our ever increasing role in providing energy for the present and the future. To provide maximum quality and service, upon the highest standards of honesty and integrity, we do hereby accept this Code of Ethics, so long as members of this Association and so long as nothing contained herein shall be unlawful.
ARTICLE 1. Members agree to abide by the Bylaws, operating policies and procedures and resolutions of TREIA.
ARTICLE 2. Members agree to conduct their businesses in a manner compatible with public health and safety; and to comply at all times with applicable local, state and federal laws, ordinances, regulations and codes.
ARTICLE 3. Members agree to conduct all marketing operations, whether company owned or contracted, in accordance with applicable local, state and federal laws.
ARTICLE 4. Members agree to promptly fulfill contract obligations; to offer a reasonable warranty, whether written or implied, on products and services; and to honor such warranty in a reasonable time.
ARTICLE 5. Members agree to present a true picture in advertisements and representations, and to only make performance claims that are realistic and verifiable. They shall avoid misrepresentations of pertinent facts regarding their products and/or services. They should endeavor to eliminate in their own businesses any practices damaging to the public or discrediting to renewable energy and the Association.
ARTICLE 6. Members shall be free to set prices for products and services as they deem appropriate in their own judgement. Members agree to give their customers accurate written statements regarding prices for products and services. Members agree to refrain from any pricing scheme that has the legal or practical purpose of defrauding governmental taxing authorities by artificially inflating prices of products or services to the customer to cover rebates or kickbacks to the customer, and to refrain from any other scheme which has a similar purpose of illegally increasing local, state or federal renewable energy tax credits.
ARTICLE 7. Members agree to present the merits and facts of their own products and services and to refrain from misrepresenting competitors' products, services or methods of doing business.
ARTICLE 8. Members shall help protect the public against fraud, misrepresentation and unethical practices in the renewable energy industries. Members shall be alert to factors that would adversly affect their industry and its consumers.
ARTICLE 9. A member charged before the Ethics Committee of TREIA with an unethical practice shall be given the opportunity to present evidence and any pertinent facts. Members agree to abide by the decisions of such committee subject to the right of appeal to the TREIA Board of Directors. We agree to abide by this Code of Ethics and fully recognize the right of TREIA, through established procedure, to withdraw our membership or allow termination of our membership pursuant to bylaw procedure should we violate this Code. Furthermore, we fully understand that appropriate authorities may be notified of any practice which the Association in good faith believes to be illegal. We recognize that these are proper functions of TREIA, and agree to hold TREIA, its officers, directors and staff harmless in these matters.
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