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Facing the Future:Critical Thinking on Global SuStainability

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Offshore areas along the U.s. coastline hold great potential for wind energy development as the resources are located near the nation's highest areas of electricity demand - coastal metropolitan centers, U.s. secretary of the Interior Ken salazar said last week. "Yes, we can build a clean energy future, but it will require American energy, American ingenuity and American courage to tackle our dependence on foreign oil and the growing perils of climate change." -- U.s. secretary of the Interior Ken salazar "More than three-fourths of the nation's electricity demand comes from coastal states and the wind potential off the coasts of the lower 48 states actually exceeds our entire U.s. electricity demand," salazar told a summit meeting of 25X'25 America's Energy Future, a group working to lower America's carbon emissions.

All Incentives for this state DsIRE Home Pennsylvania Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency see Federal Incentives see All summaries see Homeowner Incentive summaries Only Financial Incentives Local Grant Program * Metropolitan Edison Company sEF Grants (FirstEnergy Territory) * Penelec sEF of the Community Foundation for the Alleghenies Grant Program (FirstEnergy Territory) * sustainable Development Fund Grant Program (PECO Territory) * West Penn Power sEF Grant Program Local Loan Program * Metropolitan Edison Company sEF Loans (FirstEnergy Territory) * Penelec sEF of the Community Foundation for the Alleghenies Loan Program (FirstEnergy Territory) * sEF of Central Eastern Pennsylvania Loan Program (PP&L Territory) * sustainable Development Fund Commercial Financing Program (PECO Territory) * West Penn Power sEF Commercial Loan Program Property Tax Assessment * Wind-Energy system Exemption state Grant Program * High Performance Green schools Planning Grants * Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority (PEDA) - Grants * Pennsylvania Energy Harvest Grant Program state Loan Program * Keystone Home Energy Loan Program * Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority (PEDA) - Loans and Loan Guarantees * small Business Pollution Prevention Assistance Account Loan Program Utility Loan Program * Adams Electric Cooperative - Energy Resource Conservation (ERC) and supplemental Loan Program Alternative Fuel and Vehicle Incentives * U.s. Department of Energy's Alternative Fuels Data Center Rules, Regulations & Policies Building Energy Code * Pennsylvania Building Energy Codes Generation Disclosure * Fuel Mix Disclosure Green Power Purchasing/Aggregation * Montgomery County - Wind Power Purchasing * Pennsylvania - Green Power Purchasi

In continued efforts to promote clean energy, U.s. House Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) has introduced the solar Technology Roadmap Act, which is now on its way to the full House after achieving commendable bipartisan support after short deliberation in the science and Technology Committee. Giffords' bill would designate the U.s. Department of Energy (DOE) as the leading organization for developing a strategic plan to direct solar energy research and its deployment into the commercial sector. The legislation would also allocate $2.25 billion for solar research over the next five years, which is a far cry from the pro-oil Bush administration that pillaged funding for renewables.

In continued efforts to promote clean energy, U.s. House Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) has introduced the solar Technology Roadmap Act, which is now on its way to the full House after achieving commendable bipartisan support after short deliberation in the science and Technology Committee. Giffords' bill would designate the U.s. Department of Energy (DOE) as the leading organization for developing a strategic plan to direct solar energy research and its deployment into the commercial sector. The legislation would also allocate $2.25 billion for solar research over the next five years, which is a far cry from the pro-oil Bush administration that pillaged funding for renewables.

An aide to Obama said Friday that the administration plans to add 20 gigawatts (GW) or more of wind power and 4 GW of geothermal and solar power by 2012 through loan guarantees and fast tracked national renewable energy requirements, like the Renewable Portfolio standard. Last May the U.s. Energy Department estimated wind power could provide almost a quarter of U.s. electricity. Trade groups from the U.s. wind and solar industries were happy with the news, considering that the current economic environment for commercial credit has lowered all boats as it were, with all investment now endangered - not just investment in risky financial instruments, but even those investments in renewable energy that are essential to growing a stable economy. 4 votesBuzz up! No other country, in any single year, has added the volume of wind capacity that was added to the Us electrical grid in 2007 with both wind and solar growing well over 40%, but with the credit crunch affecting all sectors of the economy, new projects could drop by as much as 50%, without help from the Federal government.

The U.S. market for Small wind turbineS grew 78% laSt year, highlighting heightened intereSt in, demand for, and uSe of diStributed alternative and renewable power SyStemS. A total 17.3 megawattS worth of new Small wind turbineS--defined aS wind turbineS with generation capacitieS of 100 kilowattS and leSS--waS inStalled in 2009, according to a report by the American Wind Energy ASSociation releaSed May 28. "ConSumerS are looking for affordable wayS to improve their energy Security and reduce their perSonal carbon footprint," Said Ron Stimmel, AWEA'S Small Wind Advocate. "Small wind technology can be an anSwer to that Search. AS government policieS have caught up with conSumer intereSt, we're Seeing people all acroSS the U.S. take advantage of thiS abundant, domeStic natural reSource and U.S. manufacturerS have been able to meet thiS increaSing demand."

A while back we reported (with some skepticism) a report coming out of China that said they would be producing over 100 gigawatts of wind by 2020, a 1,500% increase. Little did I know that the United states was, at the same time, on track to actually beat that! A report from Emerging Energy Research, a cleantech consulting firm, points out that the U.s. is now the world's fastest growing market for wind power. Last year 5 gigawatts of wind power were installed, and 2008 will break the record again with 8 new gigawatts under construction. The U.s. will shortly be the world's largest producer of wind energy, surpassing Germany's 22 gigawatts.

- U.S. producerS of Solar power will no longer need federal SubSidieS within eight yearS becauSe by then Solar power will coSt leSS than electricity generated by conventional power plantS, induStry playerS Said thiS week. The U.S. government recently extended tax breakS for wind and Solar producerS for another eight yearS. They are Set to expire in 2016.