21 Recent Sustainable Energy Studies
A series of 21 “Sustainable Energy Studies” compiled by the SUN DAY Campaign. These “studies” are summaries of recent reports produced by various governmental, business, academic, and non-profit organizations. Each provides information and analyzes about the near-term potential and/or status of renewable energy and energy efficient technologies. Collectively, they document how it is possible to use sustainable energy technologies to meet U.S. energy needs while simultaneously reducing energy imports, phasing-out nuclear power, and cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
The “Sustainable Energy Studies” is an on-going series of studies being produced by the SUN DAY Campaign. Approximately one or two new studies are issued each week.
If you would like to become a member of the SUN DAY Campaign and receive these studies as they are issued as well as receive a daily compilation of 10-15 sustainable energy news stories, please see the attached information on how to join the SUN DAY Campaign.
SUN DAY CAMPAIGN
6930 Carroll Avenue, Suite #340
Takoma Park, MD 20912
301-270-NIRS, ext.23
sun-day-campaign@hotmail.com
More information about the Sun Day Campaign can be found in this Word Document
Summary of Studies
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY STUDY #1
Clean Energy Policies Could Save Iowa Consumers More Than $1 Billion, Create 5,000 Jobs and Cut Fossil-Fuel Pollution by 2020.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY STUDY #2
Tackling Global Warming at the Local Level – U.S. Cities Are Struggling to Meet Greenhouse Gas Emissions Targets.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY STUDY #3 (PDF)
New Report Touts Vast Energy Efficiency Potential in Texas; Challenges TXU, Other Utilities’ Call for Costly New Power Plants.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY STUDY #4
Solar Roadmap for Arizona Unveiled – State Could Generate Up to 1,000 Megawatts of Solar Electricity and Create 3,000 Jobs by 2020.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY STUDY #5
MIT-Led Panel Backs Geothermal ‘Heat Mining’ as a Key U.S. Energy Source.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY STUDY #6 (PDF)
U.S. Can Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 72 Percent by 2050 Through Increased Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Technologies.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY STUDY #7
New Study Shows How Florida Can Meet Nearly Half of Its Future Electricity Needs Over the Next Fifteen Years with Efficiency and Renewables.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY STUDY #8
Researchers Find Substantial Wind Energy Resource off Mid-Atlantic Coast; Potential Is 330 GW.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY STUDY #9
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Can Turn the Tide on Global Warming.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY STUDY #10
New Study Shows How Texas Can Meet Future Energy Needs with Energy Efficiency and On-site Renewables.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY STUDY #11
Environmentalists Release Clean Energy Strategy to Replace Nuclear Plants in New Jersey.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY STUDY #12
Solar Hot Water Could Save California the Equivalent of 24 Percent of All Gas Use in Homes.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY STUDY #13
Rhode Island Study Wind Power Could Provide 75 Percent of State’s Electricity Needs; Points to Offshore Resources.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY STUDY #14
Report Foresees U.S. Renewable Energy Supplying 635 GW of New Electric Generating Capacity by 2025 and Supplanting as Much as 40 Percent of U.S. Petroleum Products by 2030.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY STUDY #15
Landmark Energy Policy Study Points the way to U.S. Energy Future without Fossil Fuels or Nuclear Power – Protecting Climate Will Require Essentially Complete Elimination of U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions by 2050.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY STUDY #16
Southeast States Would Benefit from National Renewable Electricity Standard, New Analysis Finds National Standard Would Generate Jobs, Reduce Electric Bills, and Cut Global Warming Pollution.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY STUDY #17
U.S. Energy Information Administration Releases Renewable Energy Consumption and Electricity Preliminary 2006 Statistics; Renewables Up by 7 Percent While Fossil Fuel Use Declines.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY STUDY #18
New Study Finds That Developing Wind Energy Will Energize Ohio’s Economy.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY STUDY #19
Huge Potential for Green Geothermal Energy in the US.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY STUDY #20
Renewable Energy Mandate Could Lower US CO2 Emissions 22 Percent – Executive Summary of Analysis of Energy and Economic Impacts of Implementing Both a 25-Percent RPS and a 25-Percent RFS by 2025:
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY STUDY #21
New NanoMarkets Report Predicts Thin-Film Photovoltaics Market Could Reach $7.2 Billion by 2015 – PV Could Eventually Account for as Much as 20 Percent of the U.S. Market’s Energy Needs:
Nice to know, reactors can be replaced by solar, wind, tidal and geothermal installations and modest, discriminating, sensible and respecting use of power in the first place! We are entering and age of oil shortages. There simply isn’t enough left to provide cheap oil for Asia, Europe, Russia and America all at once! Alternatives have been found in the American South west, a Radiant Resource Rich area, and the Gobi desert. A conversion to solar and wind power resources, the perpetual sources of power is underway, it is fueled by the remaining oil and coal on earth and will force itself on mankind in a short period of time, meanwhile, we contend with nuclear waste, a crime against mankind and nature as we struggle to balance the energy books! In the end, the non-renewables will run out, and the perpetual, or renewables if you like, will win everywhere!
January 29th, 2009 at 8:21 am