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A new report commissioned by the Bipartisan Policy Center compares the economic impacts of a 25% renewable electricity standard (RES) and a 20% RES to the impacts of the North Carolina Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard (NC REPS). The study projected impacts from renewable electricity generation, renewable electricity feedstock production, and from electricity [...] From NREL: Having rapidly established itself as a “go to” site for transportation and other related energy information, the Virtual Information Bridge to Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (VIBE) is expanding its reach to attract new users across the widest range of energy issues. A sister site to VIBE, called Open Energy Information, has been launched [...] From the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association: The North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association (NCSEA) has released the 2009 North Carolina Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Industries Census, which identified 10,250 green energy jobs in all 100 counties of North Carolina… The 2009 report estimates that the renewable energy and energy efficiency industries employ 10,250 full-time equivalent [...] The Energy Information Administration has released its preliminary statistics on renewable energy consumption in 2008 is now available. The data shows that in 2008 renewable energy consumption increased by 7 percent and is 7 percent of the total energy consumption in the U.S. Of that 7 percent, 53 percent of the renewable energy produced in [...] The Alabama Forestry Commission has released a guide to help residential, commercial, and industrial consumers evaluate the opportunity to use woody biomass to fuel their energy needs. The guide illustrates the available woody biomass in Alabama and states that between 2001 and 2008 “Alabama’s tree inventory increased by a net amount of 13.9 million tons [...] The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 4 in Atlanta is developing a database of researchers and research projects related to biodiesel and cellulosic ethanol for the Southeast Diesel Collaborative (SEDC) (www.southeastdiesel.org/). The goal is to help make the southeast region the biofuels research capital of the U.S. by showing who’s doing what kind of research with [...] Sandia National
An A new article published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology found that corn ethanol emits, on average, 51 percent less greenhouse gases than gasoline. The University of Nebraska study researched dry-mill ethanol plants that use natural gas. The research team stated that this was the first study “to quantify the impact of recent A new report by the The University of Minnesota has cataloged the woody biomass policies now in place for each state in the U.S. The catalog can be accessed here. |
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