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December 10, 2009 IREC Webinar: DOE Solar Market Transformation Program
On December 10, IREC held a webinar on the DOE Solar Market Transformation Program.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Market Transformation Program promotes the commercialization of solar technologies by addressing the non-technical issues that act as barriers to the adoption of solar energy technologies. This seminar included special updates on Solar America Cities, Solar ... Read More
Mark Mrohs Winner of the Mark C. Fitzgerald Memorial Award 2009
November 20, 2009. Albany, NY. Mr. Mark Mrohs of SunPower Corporation was announced the winner of the 2009 ISP Mark C. Fitzgerald Memorial Award. The award was given on November 20, 2009 at the New Ideas in Educating a Workforce in Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Conference.
The award was presented by Mr. Jack Werner, ... Read More
ONTILITY, LLC Awarded ISPQ Accreditation
The Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) is pleased to announce that ONTILTIY, LLC of Houston Texas (formerly Advanced Energy Strategies – ADVEN, LLC) has been awarded the Institute for Sustainable Power Quality (ISPQ) Accreditation for Continuing Education for its ‘Solar Installation Training – Solar Electric Training’ course offering.
This solar installation training course teaches the NABCEP Photovoltaic ... Read More
State & Stakeholder Newsletter, November 18, 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Volume #8, Issue #23
Editor: Jane Pulaski
The IREC State & Stakeholder Newsletter tracks a range of market-oriented news, services and outreach tools valuable to the renewable energy community. This free newsletter is distributed semi-monthly to email subscribers and published on IREC’s website. If you have comments or if you would like to submit ... Read More
IREC updates website; now find reports, directories and program info easier
The Interstate Renewable Energy Council has just launched a redesigned website. The home page features IREC’s six key program areas in distinctive boxes, described in easy-to-understand language, making navigation on the site easy.
IREC’s overall goal was to organize, economize and communicate who it is and what it does.
“We know what we’re talking about when we ... Read More
Solar America City: Santa Rosa’s Clean Energy Advocate
Even if you live in a county where your GHG emissions reduction targets are 25% below 1990 levels by 2015, your Sonoma County Energy Independence Program (SCEIP) is one of four successful local government property assessed clean energy programs in the U.S., and your solar installation goal is 25MW in by 2011, you still aren’t ... Read More
City of Santa Rosa Completes Phase II of its Fuel from Aquatic Biomass (FAB) Project
The City of Santa Rosa was an IREC Innovation Awardee in 2008 for its Fuel from Aquatic Biomass (FAB) project. Since then, the City recently finished building Phase II of the project, which was constructed to investigate the means of extracting usable energy from harvested algae and aquatic vegetation growing in municipal wastewater. The Bay ... Read More
ISPQ: Building the Renewable Energy Workforce
It’s been busier than usual for IREC’s renewable energy training and accreditation department. As we approach 2010, we find ourselves, collectively, immersed in a place that we’ve wished for and dreamed about for decades: a real, viable renewable energy market in the U.S. IREC’s Annual Meeting and Solar Power International 2009 conference in Anaheim ... Read More
PACE: States lead, feds follow
A little over a year ago, the City of Berkeley launched Berkeley FIRST (Financing Initiative for Renewable and Solar Technology), which allows property owners to borrow money from the city’s Sustainable Energy Financing District to install photovoltaic (PV) systems and repay the cost over 20 years through an annual special tax on property tax bills. ... Read More
November 09 Connecting to the Grid Newsletter
Editor: Laurel Varnado
NC Solar Center, NC State University
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The Connecting to the Grid newsletter is published electronically every month by the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) and the North Carolina Solar Center at North Carolina State University. This is a free publication. Click here to subscribe.
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While customer-sited net metering and interconnection ... Read More
