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Up one levelThe Transformer: Integrating wind power into the grid
If the region is going to meet new power needs and fulfill its climate-stabilization responsibilities, it will have to capture all cost-effective energy savings and develop thousands of megawatts of new, clean renewable energy. This new edition of The Transformer looks at how wind power will play an integral role in a clean and affordable energy future...
Coalition urges Congress to improve the American Clean Energy and Security Act
The NW Energy Coalition joined with more than 100 leading businesses, consumer and environmental organizations from across the country by signing onto a letter that urges Congress to improve the American Clean Energy and Security Act..
Seattle Times editorial: Efficiency, renewable energy better bets than gambling anew on nuclear power
Nothing could do more to spotlight the need to draw tomorrow's power from energy efficiency and new renewable resources than the recent news that Energy Northwest wants to build more nuclear-power plants in Washington...
Planning the Smart Grid for Sustainable Communities
Join faculty and students of Portland State University (PSU) and other business and community leaders for an interactive conference on how the technologies, concepts and models associated with the Smart Grid can support sustainable communities in the Pacific Northwest...
The Columbian: Kalama coal plant officially dead
The Columbian reports that the Richland energy consortium's bid to build a $1.5 billion coal gasification plant in Kalama is officially dead after the company withdrew its application to a state agency...
Puget Sound Business Journal: Ray of light in Washington state's new energy law
A sweeping energy-efficiency bill passed by the Legislature, though obscured from public view by the budget crisis and Alaskan Way Viaduct debate, could generate a business bonanza for companies ranging from architects and engineers to mechanical contractors...
Efficiency Works! goes on the air!
The Coalition's Efficiency Works! Montana advocate Patrick Judge takes to the airwaves on Montana Public Radio to make the compelling case for energy efficiency as the cheapest, cleanest and fastest resource available for meeting future energy needs, saving money, creating jobs and fighting climate change....
Insuring ourselves against energy uncertainty
Eugene Water and Electric Board Commissioner Joann Ernst, the new EWEB liaison to the Coalition, writes in The Oregonian that the Bonneville Power Administration's financial struggles argue for a bigger BPA commitment to energy efficiency to protect the agency and its customers from market and environmental volatility...
Energy efficiency will pay off for Montana
The Coalition's Montana Efficiency Works! advocate Patrick Judge writes in newspapers across Montana that energy efficiency is tailor-made for economic recovery, offering a rare opportunity to align the personal need to save with the macro-economic need for new investment...
New study: Northwest can meet climate and power challenges
Today, the NW Energy Coalition released an exciting new report showing that the four-state region has ample, affordable energy conservation and renewable energy resources to serve future power needs and fulfill our climate responsibilities, reviving our economy and creating thousands of good local jobs along the way...
Energy efficient TVs on the horizon
From the Wall Street Journal, a story about energy-sucking TVs, California's efforts to create efficiency standards and the industry's move to more efficient products...
Video: Van Jones on the promise of renewable energy and efficiency
Van Jones, founding president of Green For All and a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress, testifies before the Washington state Senate Environment, Water and Energy Committee.
Video: Energy efficiency and decoupling utility rates
Nancy Hirsh, Policy Director for the NW Energy Coalition, testifies before the Washington state Senate Environment, Water and Energy Committee on decoupling electric and gas utility rates and on incentives for conservation...
Time magazine looks at America's untapped energy resource
In its cover Dec. 31, 2008, cover story, Time profiles a magical energy resource that is cheap, clean, abundant, locally produced, economically stimulating and climate-healing: energy efficiency. See what Time has to say about the incomparable value of doing more while consuming less...
Media from the Fall Conference is online
Video of panels and speakers, powerpoints and photographs from the Fall Conference in Portland, OR are now available...
Make sure Washington state puts Efficiency First!
Did you know that energy use in buildings is responsible for more than 30% of Washington’s global-warming emissions? Existing buildings are the region’s greatest energy wasters and many new buildings still aren’t designed with maximum energy savings in mind. That is why a broad coalition of business, trade and environmental organizations are teaming up with Washington state citizens to pass legislation in support of energy efficiency...
Energy Matters Update - Victory on Kalama!
After years of trying to sell its massively polluting proposed coal-powered plant as a clean power solution, Energy Northwest has finally thrown in the towel on the Pacific Mountain Energy Center (PMEC), the proposed 793-megawatt coal-powered facility in Kalama, Wash...
Coalition launches Efficiency Works! campaign
The NW Energy Coalition has secured major new foundation funding to launch an ambitious, region-wide energy efficiency campaign. The Efficiency Works! campaign will show civic and business leaders that energy efficiency is the easiest, quickest and cheapest strategy for meeting regional energy needs and for cutting greenhouse gas emissions...
The Transformer - Plug-in hybrids: A view from the grid
Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles are a step beyond traditional hybrid vehicles such as the emblematic Toyota Prius. Much of their fuel comes directly from the electric grid (rather than a gasoline engine), and thus their extensive employment has significant implications for the electric power system. This issue of The Transformer considers those implications...
New edition of The Energy Activist now available
Victories in the fight against coal, British Columbia's first of-its-kind carbon tax and the cross-country adventures of a giant fish named FIN are all featured in the newest edition of The Energy Activist.