ASERTTI News
DOE to Fund up to $454 Million
for Retrofit Ramp-Ups in Energy Efficiency
Projects Seek to Make Efficiency Accessible to Every
Business and Homeowner
U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced a
new $450 million program designed to catalyze a
nationwide energy upgrade that experts estimate
could save $100 million annually in utility bills
for households and businesses. The Recovery Act’s
"Retrofit Ramp-Up" program will pioneer innovative
models for rolling out energy efficiency to hundreds
of thousands of homes and businesses in a variety of
communities. Much like past roll-outs for cable TV
or the Internet, DOE intends to create models that,
when undertaken nationally, will save consumers
billions of dollars on their utility bills and make
the huge savings of energy efficiency available to
everyone. This competitive portion of the Energy
Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG)
Program will target community-scale retrofit
projects that make significant, long-term impacts on
energy use and can serve as national role models for
grassroots energy efficiency efforts. DOE is
seeking public comment on this newly funded program
under the Recovery Act. Public comment ends on
September 28, 2009. The Funding Opportunity
Announcement is expected to be released in early
October, following the public comment period. For
the full story and a link to the complete RFI,
please
click here. For more information on the EECBG
program, please
click here.
DOE Awards Up to $14.6
Million to Support Development of Advanced Water
Power Technologies
U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu
announced that 22 advanced water power projects will
receive up to $14.6 million in funding to advance
the commercial viability, market acceptance, and
environmental performance for new marine and
hydrokinetic technologies as well as conventional
hydropower plants. The projects selected will
further the nation’s supply of domestic clean
hydroelectricity through technological innovation to
capitalize on new sources of energy, and will
advance markets and research to maximize the
nation’s largest renewable energy source. Included
among the project awardees is ASERTTI member, the
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). For the
full story and additional information on the EPRI
projects and the other project awards, please
click here.
ASERTTI Fall Meeting:
Exploring California’s Energy Strategies
Please mark your calendars for the fall 2009
ASERTTI meeting, which will be held October 5-7,
2009 in Palo Alto, California. Hosted by the
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the
California Energy Commission (CEC), this year’s fall
meeting will include a presentation on the
California Climate Change Strategy and several
discussion panels cover such topics as Energy
Efficiency Successes, Challenges, Plans for the
Future and Renewable Energy Barriers and Solutions.
Other topics that will be addressed at the meeting
include transportation, smart grid and nuclear
energy. Please
click here to link directly to the ASERTTI fall
meeting page for additional agenda and registration
information.
New CSEM Working Paper: Doing
Well by Doing Good? Green Office Buildings
The Center for the Study of Energy Markets (CSEM)
recently released "Doing Well by Doing Good? Green
Office Buildings" as part of their Working Paper
Series. CSEM is a program of the University of
California Energy Institute, a multi-campus research
unit of the University of California located on the
Berkeley campus. The paper provides evidence on the
economic value of the certification of "green
buildings" – value derived from impersonal market
transactions rather than engineering estimates.
Please
click here to link directly to the study.
Save the Date!
Waste to Energy Opportunities in Wastewater
Treatment Facilities utilizing Anaerobic Digester
and CHP Concepts and Technologies Webinar
The Association of State Energy Research and
Technology Transfer Institutions (ASERTTI), in
conjunction with the National Association of State
Energy Offices (NASEO), and U.S. EPA Combined Heat
and Power (CHP) Partnership, invite you to
participate in a in a 90-minute webinar on energy
efficiency opportunities available for wastewater
treatment facilities (WWTF) utilizing the generated
biogas from the wastewater treatment process through
anaerobic digesters. The webinar will take place on
September 22, 2009 at 1:00 PM Central. Please
click here fore more information and to register
for the event.
ASERTTI Executive
Committee Update
The ASERTTI Executive Committee hosted their
monthly conference call on Thursday, September 3,
2009. In an effort to keep members up-to-date with
member activities and strategic planning, please
click here for the latest call summary. |
