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--- American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) -- Energy Efficiency Program Options for Local Governments under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 -- The report examines a number of innovative energy efficiency programs implemented by American towns and cities prior to the passage of ARRA. http://aceee.org/pubs/e09x.htm
--- The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) -- South Carolina's Energy Future: Minding Its Efficiency Resources -- The report examines the potential electricity and water efficiency savings that could be realized in South Carolina through the implementation of a suite of eleven electric and five water efficiency policies, and quantifies the growth in gross state product and employment that would result from these investments. http://aceee.org/pubs/e099.htm
--- American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) -- Climate Change Policy as an Economic Redevelopment Opportunity: The Role of Productive Investments in Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions -- The more cap-and-trade legislation is crafted to spur investments in energy-efficient devices, materials, and designs, the more it will lead to increases, not decreases, in the number of jobs in the U.S. economy. Furthermore, it will lead to reductions, not rises, in our energy bills, with negligible impact on the size of the economy. http://aceee.org/pubs/e098.htm
--- American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) -- Industrial Energy Efficiency Programs: Identifying Today's Leaders and Tomorrow's Needs -- Energy efficiency in the industrial sector represents a low-cost resource compared with other sectors, but running successful programs for this sector requires different approaches than are traditionally used in other sectors. The new report identifies leading industrial programs and successful program strategies, and suggests directions for programs looking to start or expand offerings to realize the energy efficiency savings in this sector. http://www.aceee.org/pubs/ie091.htm
--- American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) -- Saving Energy Cost-Effectively: A National Review of the Cost of Energy Saved Through Utility-Sector Energy Efficiency Programs -- Energy efficiency is by far the least costly energy resource option available for utility resource portfolios http://www.aceee.org/pubs/u092.htm
--- American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) -- Semiconductor Technology: The Potential to Revolutionize U.S. Energy Productivity -- Need for 184 electric power plants already eliminated due to more efficient technologies. http://aceee.org/pubs/e094.htm
--- American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) -- Potential for Energy Efficiency, Demand Response, and Onsite Solar Energy in Pennsylvania -- Energy efficiency improvements can save Pennsylvania consumers nearly $5 billion each year on energy bills and help create 27,000 new, local jobs by 2025. http://www.aceee.org/pubs/e093.htm
--- American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) -- Shaping Ohio's Energy Future: Energy Efficiency Works. The report includes a summary of past experience with energy efficiency programs in Ohio's electricity sector, a discussion of the key issues that must be addressed in shaping a new set of electricity policies on energy efficiency, and detailed recommendations. http://www.aceee.org/pubs/e092.htm
--- American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) -- Meeting Aggressive New State Goals for Utility-Sector Energy Efficiency: Examining Key Factors Associated With High Savings -- This report presents the results of a comprehensive national review of recent accomplishments in utility-sector energy efficiency, and an examination of key factors associated with large savings achievements. http://www.aceee.org/pubs/u091.htm
--- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) -- ASME Energy Grand Challenge Roadmap -- Through the priorities outlined in this report, ASME will work to leverage its myriad of capabilities and resources to make increased contributions the energy-related challenges that face the world today. http://files.asme.org/Strategy/20476.pdf
--- Clean Air-Cool Planet -- Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy and Historic Preservation: A Guide for Historic District Commissions -- Details in 40 pages ways to employ energy efficiency measures and renewable energy without detracting from the historic value of properties, from private residences to community buildings and museums. http://www.cleanair-coolplanet.org/for_communities/HDCGuide.pdf
--- EcoAlign -- Markets, Technology and Institutions: Increasing Energy Efficiency Through Decentralized Coordination -- The report explores new infrastructure technologies that increase consumer awareness of electricity consumption and the ability of consumers to modify electricity consumption. http://www.ecoalign.com/node/276
--- Greenpeace: Energy [R]evolution: A Sustainable U.S.A Energy Outlook http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/energyrevolution
--- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) -- The Impact of Wind Power Projects on Residential Property Values in the United States: A Multi-Site Hedonic Analysis -- “Neither the view of wind energy facilities nor the distance of the home to those facilities was found to have any consistent, measurable, and significant effect on the selling prices of nearby homes,” says report author Ben Hoen, a consultant to Berkeley Lab. http://eetd.lbl.gov/ea/ems/re-pubs.html
--- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) -- Tracking the Sun: The Installed Cost of Photovoltaics in the U.S. from 1998–2007 -- Report shows significant historical reductions in the installed costs of solar photovoltaic systems in the U.S. http://eetd.lbl.gov/ea/emp/reports/lbnl-1516e.pdf
--- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) -- Tracking the Sun II: The Installed Cost of Photovoltaics in the U.S. from 1998–2008 -- Study shows installed costs of solar photovoltaic (PV) power systems in the U.S., showing that the average cost of these systems declined by more than 30 percent from 1998 to 2008. Within the last year of this period, costs fell by more than 4 percent. http://eetd.lbl.gov/ea/emp/re-pubs.html
--- NSF International & Trucost: Carbon Emissions – Measuring the Risks -- Many U.S. companies will soon have to pay for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under the planned cap-and-trade program. The report examines the GHG emissions and carbon footprints of S&P 500 companies in several sectors that NSF works with: chemicals, food and beverage, healthcare, industrial goods and services, personal and household goods, automobiles and parts and retail. http://www.nsf.org/info/sandpcarbonemissionsreport/
--- NW Energy Coalition -- Bright Future: How to keep the Northwest's lights on, jobs growing, goods moving and salmon swimming the era of climate change. The four-state region has ample, affordable energy conservation and renewable energy resources to serve future power needs and fulfill our climate responsibilities. http://www.lightintheriver.org/brightfuture
--- Onset Computer Corporation white paper -- Wind Resource Site Assessment: A Guide to Selecting Monitoring Equipment. The new paper provides project managers and others involved in small- to moderate-scale wind energy projects with details on how data loggers and web-based monitoring systems are used to evaluate wind resources. http://www.onsetcomp.com/windwp
--- Onset Computer Corporation white paper: Optimizing Solar Thermal Performance with Data Loggers. How solar thermal systems, with the help of portable data loggers, can be optimized to deliver the financial benefits residential and commercial users hope to achieve through their investments. http://www.onsetcomp.com/solar
--- Postal Regulatory Commission -- Electric Vehicles for Mail Delivery: Identifying Key Issues. -- Paper and presentation discuss how the use of electric vehicles for mail delivery can help provide much-needed resilience and energy storage for the nation’s electrical grid, reduce the cost of operating postal vehicles that get only 8-10 miles-per-gallon, and provide some important revenue for the Postal Service.
(presentation) http://www.prc.gov/prc-docs/library/refdesk/techpapers/prcstaff/Ravnitzky%20Eastern%20Conf%20slides.ppt
--- Rocky Mountain Sustainable Enterprises, LLC (RMSE) -- Cleantech Brief: Data Management in the Clean Energy Economy -- The White Paper provides a backdrop on the use of Data Management Systems (DMS’s), as well as an analysis of current DMS trends. Most importantly, the paper looks forward to future development possibilities for data management and applications across the cleantech sector. http://rmse.biz/rmse_whitepapers.htm
--- U. S. Dept. of Agriculture -- Energy Life Cycle Assessment of Soybean Biodiesel -- Study shows that for every unit of fossil energy needed to produce biodiesel, the return is 4.5 units of energy. http://www.usda.gov/oce/reports/energy/ELCAofSoybeanBiodiesel91409.pdf
--- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) -- Assessment of the Impacts of Global Change on Regional U.S. Air Quality: A Synthesis of Climate Change Impacts on Ground-Level Ozone -- There is a potential for climate change to make ozone pollution worse in some regions and that future ozone management decisions may need to account for the possible impacts of climate change. http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/cfm/recordisplay.cfm?deid=203459
--- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) -- Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2007 -- The report indicates that overall emissions have grown by 17.2 percent from 1990 to 2007. http://epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/usinventoryreport.html
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