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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.
Energy 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.
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.