Posts by Alicia Healey
NWEC Comments on Avista’s EE targets for I-937
NWEC Comments on Avista’s EE targets for I-937
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Protect the integrity of Clean Energy Initiative 937
Clean Energy Initiative 937, passed by voters in 2006, requires WA state’s major utilities to increase the amount of new renewable resources to 15% by 2020. We will once again be tracking any legislative attempts to amend 937 in 2010 and we’ll need your help and full support to ensure that no changes to 937…
Read MoreEnergy efficiency: The key to our clean energy future
Coalition director Sara Patton discusses how The Northwest’s official electric power planning agency has confirmed, once again, that energy efficiency is the best and cheapest way to cover the next generation’s electricity needs in today’s Oregonian guest column.
Read MoreCoal-Free Washington Rally Photos
Activists seek more public input on Centralia coal plant’s future and urge earlier shutdown
Clean energy activists from across Washington state braved wind, rain and soggy footing to bring the coal-free message to the State Capitol in Olympia on Saturday, Feb. 27. Learn more about the event and see photos inside.
Read MorePower Plan: Conserving energy will create jobs
The Columbian has an article about how energy efficiency upgrades will put more green in the wallets of 47,000 workers in four Western states over the next 20 years, according to a plan approved by the Northwest Power and Conservation Council.
Read MoreMore Idaho Cities Riding the Clean Energy Wave
They’re not the first and they certainly won’t be the last, but three more Idaho cities are showing how they truly “get” how energy efficiency and renewable energy programs can chop away at their utility bills and help their communities stake a claim to the sustainable energy movement at the local level…
Read MoreA Success Story Waiting To Happen: Financing Retrofits For All
The Sightline institute has a good primer up on the challenges and promises that energy efficiency financing (like the Coalition’s proposed Energy Efficiency Financing Act now working it’s way through the state legislature) offer Washington state.
Read MoreFACT CHECK: HB 2416 TV Efficiency Standards
Get the facts here – New TV models would offer the same or better picture and performance while improving the energy efficiency of the TV at no additional cost to the consumer.
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