WHAT'S NEW

FREE CESA - CDFA Webinar on the "U.S. Department of Energy Loan Guarantee Program Office's (LGPO) RFI from Development Finance Organizations" to be held Monday, November 23, 2009 at 2:30 pm ET. For more information, click on the registration form (pdf) here.

CESA Update Call: DOE Loan Guarantee Info Session Presentation by Steve Klein and Tom Cochran. (pdf). November 13, 2009. DOE RFI (pdf).

Tracking the Sun II - The Installed Cost of Photovoltaics in the U.S. from 1998-2008, (pdf) by Ryan Wiser, Galen Barbose, Carla Peterman and Naim Darghouth, LBNL. October 2009.

New CESA Report: Distributed Renewable Energy Finance and Policy Toolkit (pdf), by Charles Kubert and Mark Sinclair. September 2009.

PV Peer Network Webinar, September 22, 2009. A briefing on "Smart Solar Marketing Strategies," (pdf) new report from Clean Energy Group and SmartPower.

New CEG Report: Smart Solar Marketing Strategies: Clean Energy State Program Guide (pdf), by Lyn Rosoff, SmartPower and Mark Sinclair, Clean Energy Group, August 2009. This report provides marketing best practices on how to address barriers to solar market growth. According to the report, by acting more like retailers selling a product, state solar programs have the potential to sharply increase PV purchases and installations.

Market Assessment of Biomass Gasification and Combustion Technology for Small- and Medium-Scale Applications (pdf), by David Peterson and Scott Haase, NREL. At the request of the Clean Energy States Alliance, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory prepared this market assessment of gasification and direct combustion technologies that utilize solid biomass to generate heat, power, or combined heat and power (CHP) for small to medium-scale applications. July 2009.

Small Rooftop Wind Turbines: Common Questions and Answers, by Mick Sagrillo, Wisconsin Focus on Energy. August 2009.

CESA Memo on NEPA. In response to inquiries by CESA members, this memo addresses the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirements related to the use of State Energy Program (SEP) funding being allocated by the Department of Energy (DOE) as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). August 2009.

CESA National Membership Meeting, June 14-17, 2009 in Burlington, VT. Hosted by the Vermont Clean Energy Development Fund.

CESA Webinar: How to Design an Effective Clean Energy Loan Program (pdf) - May 8, 2009 at 1 pm EDT.

CESA Awarded New DOE Funding to support State Outreach Project to advance state best practices that accelerate wind development and acceptance. See DOE Press Release (pdf). May 6, 2009.

The Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust has announced a new Commonwealth Wind incentive program (CommWind), designed to assist feasible wind energy projects of all scales to achieve successful and timely installations. There are three initiatives within this program: 1) Micro Wind, 2) Community-Scale Wind, and 3) Commercial Wind.

CESA-NASEO Webinar: How to Design an Effective Clean Energy Program: April 2, 2009, 1-3 pm EDT. Webinar Announcement (pdf); Briefing Papers on Program Strategies (pdf); RE Incentives(pdf); Competitive Grants (pdf) and Clean Energy Loans (pdf). Webinar presentations can be found by clicking here.

NREL Technical Report: Photovoltaic Financing: Residential Sector Deployment (pdf), prepared by Jason Coughlin and Karlynn Cory. This report examines incentives available to reduce the cost of owning and operating a PV system and creative ways to combine them into a comprehensive financial package for residential PV systems. March 2009.

“PTC, ITC, or Cash Grant? An Analysis of the Choice Facing Renewable Power Projects in the United States,” by LBNL and NREL. This report quantitatively and qualitatively analyzes, from the project developer/owner perspective, the choice between the PTC and the ITC (or equivalent cash grant) for a number of different renewable power technologies such as wind, open- and closed-loop biomass, geothermal, and landfill gas projects. March 2009.

“Tracking the Sun: The Installed Cost of Photovoltaics in the U.S. from 1998–2007,” by LBNL: Ryan Wiser, Galen Barbose, and Carla Peterman. February 2009.

Clean Energy Group offers comments on Markey Legislation for Federal RPS. See Cover Letter and Memo (pdf). February 10, 2009.

Voice of America News story on CESA State Clean Energy Funds and Clean Energy Stimulus. Click here for text of the audio file (pdf). January 21, 2009. Click here for mp3 audio file.

Lew Milford interview on E&E TV "On Point" on Federal-State Clean Energy Partnership, January 14, 2009. Read the transcript(pdf).

CESA announces winners of the 2009 "State Leadership in Clean Energy" (SLICE) Awards in Washington, DC. January 13, 2009. See Press Release and Fact Sheet. Summaries of the winning programs from CA, CT, MA, NJ and WI can be found here.

CESA and EESI presented an educational Congressional Briefing on "The Strategic Role of States in Supporting Clean Energy" on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009 in DC. Please click here to download the briefing materials.

Review of State Renewable Portfolio Standard Programs in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Regions, prepared for the CESA Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States Collaborative on RPS Implementation by Exeter Associates, December, 2008.

CESA State RPS Policy Report: Increasing Coordination and Uniformity Among State Renewable Portfolio Standards, prepared by Edward A. Holt, Ed Holt and Associates for CESA and the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic RPS Implementation Collaborative, December 2008.

Shaking Up the Residential PV Market: Implications of Recent Changes to the ITC (PDF). Berkeley Lab and CESA are pleased to announce the release of this new report that analyzes and discusses these implications of changes to the residential solar ITC. November 2008.

New Jersey Board of Public Utilities awards $4 million grant to Garden State Offshore Energy (GSOE) to develop offshore wind farm on the East Coast. The proposed 345.6 MW offshore wind facility would be located southeast of Atlantic City, 16 miles off the coastline. When completed, the facility would produce enough electricity to power approximately 125,000 homes annually. See Press Release (PDF). October 2008.

CESA submits Comments (PDF) on MMS Proposed Rule for Alternative Energy and Alternate Uses of Existing Facilities on the Outer Continental Shelf. September 2008.

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