Resources & Publications
Regulators weigh utilities’ efficiency targets in Washington state
Following a lengthy process, the Washington’s Utilities and Transportation Commission approved PacifiCorp’s and Avista Utilities’ targets for meeting the energy efficiency provisions of the state’s clean energy law. Initiative 937 requires the state’s major electric utilities to capture all of the cost-effective conservation in their service territories beginning in 2010.
Working Snake River project seeks broad involvement, political leadership to protect Northwest wild salmon
Working Snake River for Washington, a collaboration of clean energy proponents, conservationists, salmon and orca advocates, commercial and recreational fishermen, farmers and businesses, is a response to the government’s two-decade, multi-billion-dollar failure to craft a lawful, science-based federal plan that protects the Columbia Basin’s endangered wild salmon and steelhead.
Member Organization Profile – Moontown Foundation
Watch our video profile of Coalition member Moontown Foundation.
Future tense: Clearing the way for clean energy
We now know a clean energy future is both possible and affordable.
Will we rise above our differences to reach it?
Welcome to the first eActivist
From Executive Director Sara Patton: My first eActivist column promises to be shorter if not sweeter than my hard copy columns of yore. Electronic communications have proved a great boon to public-interest advocates, and we’re moving to take advantage of that opportunity.
But we’ll need to fully deploy all modes of human communication to surmount the challenges before us.
The Energy Activist – Summer 2010
Welcome to the first online edition of the Energy Activist. Electronic communications have proved a great boon to public-interest advocates, and we’re moving to take advantage of that opportunity.
The Energy Activist Online helps Coalition members and allies keep track of often complex energy and salmon issues. Each edition explores a key issue affecting the Northwest’s energy future…
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Realizing the Power of Efficiency
Barriers, Opportunities & Solutions to Financing Energy Efficiency for Small and Mid‐sized Businesses in the Northwest
The up-front costs of energy efficiency improvements may just be the king of barriers to energy waste reduction at the scale that will allow us to stop building costly and polluting new electric generating plants.
The Coalition’s Efficiency Works! project has commissioned a study of Northwest lending for energy efficiency projects in small and mid-sized commercial enterprises. The goal is to examine the current landscape, including the barriers encountered by existing programs, and offer a menu of solutions…
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…
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.