This page contains links to general renewable energy information, publications, and other information. The information contained on this page is relavent to multiple technologies and sectors.
Join businesses, manufacturers, local governments, educators, and others for the ERC's Energizing Our Region monthly breakfast seminars, held on the first Friday of each month from 7:30 to 9:30am. Seminars focus on renewable technology and energy efficient practices and products. Join your peers to network and gain knowledge about the economic and policy drivers of the new energy marketplace. Click on the title above to register for our next seminar.
This directory, developed by St Francis University's Renewable Energy Center, provides information about firms installing wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, and hydro technology across PA.
The maps and incentive sheets on this page were developed by EPA in partnership with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). This site provides information about opportunities for renewable energy generation on contaminated lands and minings sites in all 50 states. This page covers potential for six types of renewable energy: community wind, commercial wind, concentrated solar power, utility scale PV power, biopower facilities, and biopower facilities.
Visit the Renewable Energy Center's website to learn about solar, wind, hydro, geothermal and bioenergy. The site also maintains a directory of renewable energy installers, which may be accessed directly here.
This document, by the Wisconsin Focus on Energy group, explores options for renewable energy in agricultural settings. It outlines uses for renewable energy; benefits of renewable energy; examples; tax benefits; and links to more information.
This links to an article about Reynolds, Indiana, a town that reduced its dependence on foreign oil by implementing energy conservation and production technologies.
REPP's goal is to accelerate the use of renewable energy by focusing on the development of an active, robust renewable technology supply chain in the US. REPP provides credible information, insightful policy analysis, and innovative strategies amid changing energy markets and mounting environmental needs by researching, publishing, and disseminating information, creating policy tools, and hosting highly active, on-line, renewable energy discussion groups.
The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) works to strengthen the United States' energy security, environmental quality, and economic vitality in public-private partnerships. This site tracks current program details as they are put in action and projected for their ten renewable energy advancement and implementation programs.
Interstate Renewable Energy Council
IREC emphasizes education and outreach, stakeholder coordination, technical assistance, workforce development, the adoption and implementation of uniform guidelines and standards, consumer protection and building networks to share experiences and information. This site records the movement and organization of the advancement of renewable energy resources.
On August 6, 2009, the PA PUC approved PPL Electric Utilities Corporation's plan to offer customers the opportunity to invest in alternative energy through purchasing Alternative Energy Credits. The above is the press release with details about the plan. Further details are forthcoming.
Several European countries, and more recently the Canadian province of Ontario, have adopted a simple yet powerful strategy to expand renewable energy. It's called a feed in tariff: a mandated, long-term premium price for renewable energy paid by the local electric utility. Evidence shows that the tariff achieves high results at a low cost. Examine this policy brief, developed by the New Rules Project, to review the results.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
The NREL is the US Department of Energy's primary tool for research and development of renewable and efficient energy technologies. This site provides information about the science and technology, application, general use, and related policy development of renewable and efficient energy.