Communities
The face of energy production is changing. In many places, groups comprised of homeowners, business people and businesses are coming together to spread the risks and rewards of clean energy production and savings. These communities are growing and breaking the traditional mode of how energy is made, delivered and utilized.
If you are part of such a community, or interested in forming one, we have case studies, online tools, reports, vendor profiles and much more that can help you:
Community Leader:Garfield County Colorado (USA) has developed a program to promote clean energy and green business practices throughout a six city region. Via a combination of unique financing, education and energy management, CLEER promotes rapid deployment of energy efficiency, public transit and solar self generation.
- Immediately save as much as 50% on business and residential power and cooling bills
- Subsidize up to 100% of efficiency and green building improvements (leverage a wide array of government grants, tax incentives and rebates)
- Further offset energy costs through self generation
- Improve transportation quality and reach while reducing your global footprint
- Explore ways to increase productivity in manufacturing via advances in power, water and other natural resource management
- Lay the groundwork now to offset future carbon "taxes"
- Leverage clean energy initiatives to appeal to the environmentally-conscious side of your customers, employees, investors and overall community.
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Top Ten Utility Green Power Programs
The US Department of Energy ranks utilities by those having the greatest success with their green power programs. The DOE has been studying these types of programs since 2000 with the latest finding published from the end of 2007 (2008 stats are still being compiled). Their "Top Ten" lists of program characteristics and results are determined by: total sales of renewable energy to program participants; total number of customer participants; customer participation rates; and the lowest premium charged to support new renewables development. And the winners are: