NW Energy Coalition – For a clean and affordable energy future

In recognition of the most far-sighted, clean energy-based power plan in regional history, the NW Energy Coalition last week presented its highest award to the Northwest Power and Conservation CouncilThe Northwest Power and Conservation Council was created by Congress to develop and maintain a regional power plan and a fish and wildlife program to balance the Northwest's environment and energy needs..

This year’s award goes to the Council members, staff and advisory committee members who produced the Sixth Northwest Power and Conservation Plan in early 2010. The plan projects the next 20 years of regionwide electricity needs and prescribes the means of meeting them. The Sixth Plan tells Northwest utilities they can and should meet 85% of new needs with bill-reducing energy efficiency and most of the rest with new, clean renewable energy.

Read the full plan here.

The TransformerThe Transformer is an online publication from the NW Energy Coalition offering in-depth analysis of policy discussions influencing the Northwest power system.: A cheaper bright future

The region’s new power and conservation plan closely tracks NW Energy Coalition’s Bright Future analysis and provides an even lower consumer cost estimate for achieving our clean energy vision…

The TransformerThe Transformer is an online publication from the NW Energy Coalition offering in-depth analysis of policy discussions influencing the Northwest power system. – Energy efficiency brings good things to life

The new official power and conservation plan for the Northwest confirms that more than enough inexpensive energy efficiency is availability to meet most new electricity needs.

Moving the region toward a Bright Future: The new Sixth Northwest Power and Conservation Plan

Every five years the region’s official power planning agency, the Northwest Power and Conservation CouncilThe Northwest Power and Conservation Council was created by Congress to develop and maintain a regional power plan and a fish and wildlife program to balance the Northwest's environment and energy needs., produces a new 20-year forecast of growing electricity needs and a prescription for meeting them. The recently approved Sixth Northwest Power and Conservation Plan charts an aggressive clean energy path for our region’s future.

Coalition director Sara Patton discusses how The Northwest’s official electric power planning agency has confirmed, once again, that energy efficiency is the best and cheapest way to cover the next generation’s electricity needs in today’s Oregonian guest column.

The Columbian has an article about how energy efficiency upgrades will put more green in the wallets of 47,000 workers in four Western states over the next 20 years, according to a plan approved by the Northwest Power and Conservation CouncilThe Northwest Power and Conservation Council was created by Congress to develop and maintain a regional power plan and a fish and wildlife program to balance the Northwest's environment and energy needs..

NW Energy Coalition statement on adoption of the Sixth Northwest Power and Conservation Plan Feb. 10, 2010 The Northwest Power and Conservation CouncilThe Northwest Power and Conservation CouncilThe Northwest Power and Conservation Council was created by Congress to develop and maintain a regional power plan and a fish and wildlife program to balance the Northwest's environment and energy needs. was created by Congress to develop and maintain a regional power plan and a fish and wildlife program to balance the Northwest’s environment and energy needs. has [...]

Every five years, the Northwest’s official power planning agency – the Northwest Power and Conservation CouncilThe Northwest Power and Conservation Council was created by Congress to develop and maintain a regional power plan and a fish and wildlife program to balance the Northwest's environment and energy needs. — conducts a fresh assessment of the region’s long-term electricity needs and issues a blueprint for meeting them.

The newest edition of The Energy Activist chronicles the recent four-state hearing process for the Northwest Power and Conservation Plan.

In city after city, state after state, hundreds rallied and spoke for a Northwest Power and Conservation Plan to boost our use of energy efficiency and renewable energy.