News
Keeping our information nicely chilled: Green datacenters on the rise
Tech Blog Ars Technica has an extensive article about how energy efficient technologies, both old and new, are helping to reduce the energy consumption of the datacenters powering the modern world.
Seattle Times Editorial Board: Water over the dam works for salmon
A recent Seattle Times Editorial urges the Obama administration to listen to fisheries scientists and biologists who want to keep spilling water over dams in the Columbia and Snake river basins to aid salmon migration.
Sixth Northwest Power and Conservation Plan, Part II
The Transformer: A cheaper bright future
The region’s new power and conservation plan closely tracks NW Energy Coalition’s Bright Future analysis and provides an even lower consumer cost estimate for achieving our clean energy vision…
Helena Independant Record: Energy efficiency key to clean energy future
Coalition staffer Diego Rivas and director Sara Patton make the case in the Helena Independent Record that energy efficiency is the key to meeting the Northwest’s new power needs over the next two decades. They highlight the assertion in the Northwest Power and Conservation Council’s Sixth Power Plan, released last month, “that the region can and should meet the lion’s share — 85 percent — of new power needs with energy efficiency costing far less than power from any new generating facility. For western Montana, this means saving about 200 average megawatts, an amount equal to its projected load growth.”
Sixth Northwest Power and Conservation Plan, Part I
The Transformer – Energy efficiency brings good things to life
The new official power and conservation plan for the Northwest confirms that more than enough inexpensive energy efficiency is availability to meet most new electricity needs.
Energy Matters Update – March 16, 2010
Moving the region toward a Bright Future: The new Sixth Northwest Power and Conservation Plan
Every five years the region’s official power planning agency, the Northwest Power and Conservation Council, produces a new 20-year forecast of growing electricity needs and a prescription for meeting them. The recently approved Sixth Northwest Power and Conservation Plan charts an aggressive clean energy path for our region’s future.
Greenest building in Seattle planned
The Seattle Times is running a story on how the Bullit Foundation, a Coalition funder, is preparing to build a new headquarters that would also serve as a showplace for cutting-edge green engineering and architecture.
Wash. Leg Review: Some Enviro Bills Live, Others Die
KPLU’s Liam Moriarty has a short report on the Washington state legislative session and the fate of several environmental bills, including some authored or supported by the NW Energy Coalition. Listen online.
Future Energy Conference in Portland April 21-22
The Future Energy Conference, of which NW Energy Coalition is a supporting partner, will be a great networking and learning opportunity for project developers, service and equipment providers, energy end users, utilities, policy makers and others involved in building the new energy economy. Plus, NW Energy Coalition members get a $50 discount!
Wash. Legislature passes landmark bill on recycling fluorescent lights
The State Legislature has passed a bill to create a convenient residential recycling program for compact fluorescent lights and other lights that contain mercury. The bill, ESSB 5543, now awaits only the governor’s signature to become law.