Reports & Studies
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…
The Power of Efficiency
Northwesterners can save enough electricity to power the region’s economic growth over the next decade, according to a new study from the NW Energy Coalition.
The study, The Power of Efficiency: Pacific Northwest Conservation Potential through 2020, also shows increased efficiency can cut new regional natural gas demand in half.
Bright Future
Bright Future shows that the Northwest has ample, affordable energy conservation and renewable energy resources to serve future power needs and fulfill our climate responsibilities while reviving our economy. For negligible costs compared to continued reliance on dirty power sources, we can cover future electric demands (including those for electric-powered vehicles), help salmon survive both climate change and the hydrosystem, shut down the highly polluting coal plants now serving the region and meet state and regional greenhouse gas reduction goals.
Tellus Report
A report from the Tellus Institute shows the Northwest can meet its growing need for electricity by increasing energy efficiency and investing in new sources of renewable power generation. Thanks to recent innovations, clean energy technologies are primed to compete with gas plants, the economic benchmark for new power generation. The results of the Tellus study cast doubt on the need for additional fossil fuel generation in the Northwest.
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