New Energy News
- Northwest wins big with stimulus funds for electric cars, new battery technology
- The Obama administration's Department of Energy awarded more than $2.4 billion in grants yesterday to signficantly increase deployment of electric vehicles. The funding was part of the President's federal stimulus package approved by Congress earlier this year.
- New ‘road map’ to help leaders cut energy use
- Jackson Hole now has a skeleton plan for how to reduce energy consumption, and in the next few months leaders plan to start adding tendons, muscle and flesh to those bones.
- Cities use creative, targeted lending to speed energy projects
- A number of municipalities across the country are getting creative and experimenting with incremental, neighborhood- or district-based lending programs that help homeowners pay the up-front capital costs.
- Smaller towns and cities get aggressive on energy efficiencies
- The Northwest region's three largest cities are working to combine federal, state and local dollars to incentivize energy efficiencies. But what about some of the region’s smaller cities? Small cities have as much to gain – and to lose – as the big urban centers.
- Electric vision: King County working to become first national proving ground for electric vehicles
- With the introduction of the nation’s first mass-produced, commercially available electric vehicles less than a year away, King County is working with other municipal leaders to spearhead an effort that could transform the Seattle metropolitan area into a nationwide hub for green-vehicle technology.
- Boise mayor launches 'Green House' project to boost green energy projects
- Boise Mayor David Bieter hopes a city-owned launching pad for entrepreneurs will boost green energy projects in the Valley.
- The making of Missoula's green team
- With a few steps, any city or county can create a green team and start saving resources. Here's how Missoula, MT got the ball rolling.
