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Up one levelJob Opening: Senior Policy Associate or Policy Associate
The NW Energy Coaltion has an open position for a Policy Associate to represent the Coalition in legislative, regulatory and utility proceedings as well as analyze and critique utility, state and regional electric, natural gas and climate policy proposals.
The Transformer - Study shows feasibility of integrating wind in the Northwest
As more and more wind projects sprout up across the region, planners wonder how much wind the power system can reliably and economically incorporate into the electricity system...
It's a party, and you're invited!
Please join the NW Energy Coalition as we celebrate our 26th Anniversary! No, that’s not a typo. We were so busy last year fighting for a clean and affordable energy future that we missed our own 25th birthday! Never ones to pass up the chance for a good party, we’ll be celebrating the NW Energy Coalition’s first quarter-century with a 26th Anniversary Gala...
Join us for the Fall Conference & Board Meeting on October 12 &13
NW Energy Coalition's Conference and Fall Board Meeting will be held on October 12 & 13, 2007 in Seattle. We're looking forward to a great weekend, featuring panel discussions on how energy efficiency and renewables development address climate change and on the effects of BPA’s Regional Dialogue decision. Of special interest will be a Friday afternoon debate on cap and trade policies from Coalition stalwarts and blackbelt policy masters Ralph Cavanagh and Jim Lazar...
Coalition comments on Energy Northwest’s phony ‘sequestration plan’
Energy Northwest, the public consortium attempting to develop a gasified coal power plant in Kalama, Wash., recently submitted to state regulators what it called a “plan” to store (sequester) the plant’s global-warming emissions. In written comments to the state Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council, the NW Energy Coalition demonstrates that the so-called plan falls light years short of what state law requires...
Final BPA plan an improvement
Bonneville Power Administration made significant improvements in its “Regional Dialogue” plan for providing electricity to publicly owned utilities in the Northwest. Improving the plan was a primary focus of the NW Energy Coalition’s Energy Matters campaign...
Energy Matters Update - Campaign leaves its mark
Bonneville Power Administration has released the final version of the “Regional Dialogue,” BPA’s radical new plan for divvying up cheap federal power among public utilities in the Northwest. This issue of the Energy Matters Update looks at what was accomplished and notes the unfinished work ahead...
The National Solar Tour is coming!
On Saturday, October 6, 2007, Join American Solar Energy Society's 12th annual National Solar Tour, the largest demonstration of installed renewable energy technologies and energy efficient building practices in the USA. The tour offers local residents an opportunity to find out how their neighbors are trimming their energy bills, increasing their energy independence and taking steps to address global warming...
Updated: Attend I-937 rulemaking hearing on Wednesday
Updated with more location details. This Wednesday, Nov. 14, the state Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development (CTED) will hold a public hearing on its final draft rules for implementing Clean Energy Initiative 937. We and other clean-energy advocates have significant concerns about CTED’s draft provisions for renewables and energy efficiency — provisions that could limit achievements in both areas. Please consider attending the hearings to support the goals that you and other Washington voters embraced one year ago...
Just in: Climate, consumers win big on Kalama
In a victory for the environment and utility customers, Washington state utility regulators halted the permitting for a proposed coal-fueled power plant in southwest Washington...
A giant of the clean-energy and social-justice movements is gone.
On July 1, Doug Still, a co-founder and former board chair of the NW Energy Coalition, passed away. His years of Coalition service were just part of a tireless commitment to clean energy, social justice and environmental stewardship...