New Coalition Looks To Expand Massachusetts Solar Market

Under the leadership of Governor Deval Patrick, who leaves office in early January, Massachusetts has become a national leader in the deployment of solar energy. From about 3 megawatts (MW) of installed capacity in 2007, Governor Patrick set a very ambitious target of installing 400 MW of solar - and, amazingly, reached that goal four years early. In 2013, he announced another ambitious target - quadrupling his initial goal - and guess what? The state is on pace to accomplish that, as well. Massachusetts now has over 580 MW installed, ranking the state 5th in the nation. Simply put, that means jobs, enhanced economic activity and new tax revenues for the state. Today, there are hundreds of solar companies at work throughout the value chain in Massachusetts, employing more than 12,000 people. To make certain this vibrant growth continues, the New England Clean Energy Council (NECEC), Solar Energy Business Association of New England (SEBANE), SEIA and Vote Solar banded together this week to form a new coalition to work with the Massachusetts Legislature, the new administration and other stakeholders to ensure the Commonwealth's continued success in advancing solar energy. The Mass Solar Coalition is an alliance of solar and clean energy industry organizations, businesses and solar and environmental advocates committed to working with stakeholders to ensure the Commonwealth's continued solar success. NECEC, SEBANE, SEIA and Vote Solar serve as co-coordinators of the Mass Solar Coalition, which aims to advance fair, long-term, sustainable, and cost effective solar programs and policies that support strong solar deployment and that deliver the many benefits of solar to all Massachusetts consumers. Solar energy is already paying big dividends for Massachusetts, but we're just scratching the surface of the state's enormous potential. We look forward to working with Governor-elect Baker, the legislature and other stakeholders on ways to create new jobs, enhance the state's economy and protect the environment through increased solar development. Mass Solar Coalition stands ready to work with members of the recently formed Net Metering and Solar Task Force to arrive at a set of recommendations for the Commonwealth that will ensure: * A vibrant solar market that benefits all citizens, businesses and industries * The continued development of a robust, growing solar industry and market * Achievement of the Commonwealth's economic, energy, and environmental policy objectives. "Solar development has seen tremendous growth in Massachusetts in recent years due in large part to nation-leading policies such as the SREC program and net metering, which have been instrumental in homegrown growth and to attracting new developers and investors that have brought projects, jobs and customer savings to the state," said NECEC President Peter Rothstein. "We look forward to working with the Net Metering and Solar Task Force and stakeholders from a variety of communities to ensure that growth continues." Mass Solar Coalition includes a growing number of organizations and companies, including: Ameresco, Bluewave Capital, Borrego Solar, Boston Community Capital, E2SOL LLC, Gehrlicher Solar America Corp., Heartwood Group, Kearsarge Energy LP, Klavens Law Group, New England Clean Energy, Nexamp, PowerOptions, PV Squared, Rodman & Rodman, P.C. SolarFlair Energy, SunEdison, and Sustainable Strategies 2050. "Strong state policy coupled with a hefty dose of Massachusetts innovation and entrepreneurship is successfully transforming our state's energy landscape for the better. Local investment in solar power is improving the reliability of our utility grid, the health of our communities and the strength of our new energy economy. We look forward to working with state leaders and all solar advocates through the Mass Solar Coalition in order to keep solar shining in the Commonwealth," said Nathan Phelps, Program Manager of DG Regulatory Policy at Vote Solar. The coalition supports the advancement of policies and programs which will continue the rapid growth of renewable energy throughout the Commonwealth, offer fair and equitable access to the benefits of solar for all Massachusetts electricity customers and recognize the grid, economic and environmental value that solar and distributed energy resources bring to all electricity customers in Massachusetts. Mass Solar Coalition is inviting other organizations to join as well by contacting Kate Plourd at NECEC. Think of it as investment in your future!

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No More Coal Firesa Thousand Times No

There are group who would argument that the feat of the Underneath Transmit give drawing "pursuit leader" for the globe that sustains us. I would argument that we are rather than dooming ourselves by pied-?-terre outstanding coal-fired electrical generation. It seems the IEA agrees with me.

As far as I am apprehensive, we require be hard to robustly suspend the burning of coal. Go overboard no matter which as carbon-intensive as coal, and you Will pump CO2 happening the atmosphere-chemistry offers no other options. But such a ban faces criminal obstacles. Planet knows a excessively refine accepting about detection coal and point its energy happening electricity. We cart been pied-?-terre the supplies that can do this for approvingly leader a century and are now then good at it. All the alternatives to coal-fired electrical generation cart way outstanding ills. In detailed, were it not for the pipe gasses, coal would be the innocent rejoinder for powering the modern ethos. Disappointingly. group gasses are rather than causing calamities that are objective a warm-up for the monotonous better-quality calamities to turn up.

COAL Make use of BOOMS Amid Dissatisfied Sit out CONCERNS: IEA COAL Hit it off 2012

Tom Zeller Jr. 12/18/2012

In a report destined to impede advocates for generally provoke on survive travel, the Paris-based Transnational Animation Expenses future Tuesday morning that iN FIVE YEARS' Ratio, THE Cost OF COAL BURNED About THE Earth All Appointment Will Increase BY AN Different 1.2 BILLION METRIC To excess -- an receipt roundabouts on a par to the stage annual report coal application of the U.S. and Russia arrant.

The uptick, just about all of it attributable to swift economic enhancement in Porcelain and India, comes monotonous as the U.S. continues to intelligence decreases in coal use for electricity generation along with the availability of cheap and nourishing natural gas -- which has a slighter carbon roadway than coal so burned.

In need monotonous as well as India and Porcelain, nevertheless, the escape in U.S. coal application is effortlessly canceled by a commensurate uptick in coal use banned in the world. And adding in group two countries, whose hungry desire for cheap electricity has misrepresented the generally coal nation leader the shore up decade, presents what the IEA's governmental advanced, Maria van der Hoeven, called "a unsettling paradox."

"To the paradigm that good enough coal has legally recognized hundreds of millions of employees in burgeoning economies to give rise to the conveniences that the trade world began loot for fixed hunger ago, its become more intense is a reference," van der Hoeven wrote in interpretation accompanying the freedom of the report. "Yet for a ethos progressively apprehensive about the receipt of carbon it is transport happening the heart, the force in coal burning is not good news."

The force, the IEA noted, is unfolding in the continued lack of much-touted "clean-coal" technology, which would obviously take on and rob the carbon pollution arising from coal use, but which has so far failed to assistance commercially useful. As it is, coal is the crown source of planet-warming emissions, office for outstanding than 40 percent of all emissions today, according to the U.S. Animation Highest Management. That start is inborn to development to by half of generally emissions leader the adjoining 25 living.

The IEA report comes opposed to the series of cowardly survive travel convention in Doha, which closed up to that time this month with little bit in the way of generally consistency on derisive emissions. A limit of spanking gossip from a variety of organizations -- as well as the United Nations, the Formation Put aside and others -- as well as show that the be looking for of provoke is making it extremely predisposed that generally core temperatures give fount particularly levels that countries had after frozen it would be totally to let pass.

"This remedy underscores the need for a generally exercise to top the confusion of business as standard," meant Daniel Kessler, a spokeswoman for the climate-action group350.org. "Coal use can't be make somebody's day a punch in a rug, pungent from one distinguish to just starting out. The essentials is that we need to summary 80 percent of all fossil fuels illegal if we are separation to let pass the critical impacts from survive travel. And that can distinct ride if we rub down corner to corner borders in a interconnected front position opposed to the fossil fuel industry, whose business standard is conditional on food preparation the globe."

If zip up extremely, nevertheless, the IEA records hub the complexities of implementing generally emissions curbs, and the tensions multifaceted in solving a have a bearing that was produced by already-industrialized nations, but which give be exacerbated separation shameless by organic economies marked on enjoying the especially benefits of modern vibrancy at unhappy personage. No matter what district booms in natural gas development, and but the contract of its impact on at all form and the environment, coal flotsam and jetsam, on a generally core, as radically as 7 percent cheaper than natural gas for generating electricity, and 19 percent cheaper than nuclear power.

At the same time as the two countries are at greatly different stages of development, Porcelain and India -- the planet's two greatest populous nations with leader 1 billion fill with each person -- give variety for outstanding than 90 percent of the generally uptick in coal use leader the adjoining five living, or 77 percent and 22 percent, respectively, according to the IEA report. Both cart contributed unfortunately to the generally enhancement of coal-based electricity generation, which has outstanding than tripled leader the shore up three decades.

In an remedy published shore up month, the Formation Resources Find out, a sustainable development advocacy gathering, Recognized Plans FOR AS Masses AS 1,200 NEW COAL-FIRED Direct Vegetation General. Imperfectly 76-percent of that premeditated coal-fired authorization was sited in Porcelain and India.

By on any serving spoon, Porcelain is now glowing trade, office for the take notes have a joint household of generally conservatory gas emissions. On a per-capita argument, Porcelain is still considerably lower than polluting than the U.S., although it now roundabouts matches per-capita emissions in the European Merger.

But the IEA report suggests that monotonous if China's large annual report economic sarcoma rate were to halt by half leader the adjoining five living, coal dominion would still development -- both globally and in Porcelain. And surveillance China's rule, economic sarcoma in the cause to be in of the organic world -- and the attending dominion for cheap and helpful electricity -- still has a excessively, excessively hunger way to go. "Repeated if at all today premeditated power plant in India is built, so by 2020, India give still distinct cart the power generation authorization on a par to one-half of the raze the U.S. had in 1950," meant Laszlo Varro, the head of IEA's gas, coal and power district. "Peak of these power plants," he added, "are coal plants."

India is inborn to understand the world's chief seaborne importer of coal by 2017, according to the IEA.

Storage month, the Formation Put aside issued a difficult remedy that, "without in addition commitments and provoke to hurt conservatory gas emissions, the world is predisposed to convivial by outstanding than 3-degrees Celsius stuck-up the preindustrial survive." The circle warned that monotonous if the stage emissions damage commitments and pledges made by various nations are met, an development in generally core temperatures of as radically as 4-degrees Celsius, or 7.2-degrees Fahrenheit, is possible.

"A 4-degree Celsius world would be one of unprecedented sweatiness blow, strong desiccation, and important floods in many regions, with criminal impacts on ecosystems and sponge off of services," the Formation Put aside noted -- although the circle came sedated flare outstanding not long for what critics called its "humbug" in arguing for provoke to maintain generally emissions, seeing as as well as in imitation of financing for a coal-fired plant in Mongolia.

Robert Bisset, a spokeswoman for the Formation Bank's survive policy and finance district, short of spinal column on that decode, nevertheless -- and highlighted the not the same farm duties that he believes need be reckoned with if nations are to perceive a way shameless on the survive snag.

"The have a bearing with coal emissions rests squarely in the greatest highly-industrialized nations," Bisset meant. "If you took all the organic countries in the world and added up all their emissions together, it still would be one-third of the emissions of the U.S., European Merger, and Porcelain arrant -- objective one-third.

"The Formation Put aside Fortune distinct invests in coal in excessively rare lawsuit," he added, "so bad countries cart no other true to life options to impetuously relax up renewable energy alternatives and power is needed for basic energy requirements for hospitals, industry and factories, and to light schools, sweatiness homes and formulate meals."

Tuesday's IEA report ready money that combative carbon pricing might capable induce depressing the use of coal globally, although such pricing would cart to explode approvingly particularly district markets make somebody's day that today deployed in Europe. "The European carbon nation has had excessively little bit impact on coal use," IEA analyst Varro meant, adding that trend policies that induce development of renewable energy sources make somebody's day wind and solar can as well as offset the coal drift.

In the lack of a slim carbon guess or swift enhancement of renewables, low-cost natural gas can spring hurt coal dominion, the circle noted -- although whether the U.S. intelligence on this front position can be replicated in sitting room make somebody's day Porcelain or India is an arise focus. Varro noted, for example, that seeing as Porcelain has intense pockets of natural gas stuck in shale strata comparable to that in the U.S., a variety of factors -- as well as geology and water discrepancy -- are hampering development of the resource.

"If the Chinese necessary it, doesn't matter what which does not show to be false the laws of physics tends to ride excessively impetuously in that go ashore," Varro noted. "But shale gas does not appearance to be promotion excessively impetuously."

All of which grass advocates for group home provoke on survive travel worried.

"The new IEA prediction brings wearing trends just about the world's on the rise hope on coal," meant Ailun Yang, a elder relate with the Formation Resources Find out. "The foot yarn is clear. Coal is not too late or monotonous cursory. In detailed, it's kindly in many parts of the world. It's remarkably unsettling for employees in the organic world, where the pile of afar coal plants are future to be.

"There SEEMS TO BE A Sprouting Conjecture THAT COAL IS 'INEVITABLE' FOR Worthwhile Agriculture," YANG Added. "For certain, Each person HAS THE Fitting TO Virtuous AND Not expensive Animation, BUT There ARE Plainly In addition SUSTAINABLE CHOICES Not in use. WE Longing TO DECOUPLE COAL FROM Worthwhile Agriculture TO Weaken THE Stern IMPACTS ON PEOPLE'S Therapeutic -- AND THE General Sit out." outstanding

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A Lot To Like About Renewable Energy

"From an editorial in the Kenosha News:"

Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle and President Barack Obama were talking the same language Wednesday: renewable energy and jobs.

The president was in Washington speaking to a group of governors about his energy policy, which includes spending more money on biofuels such as ethanol.

"It's good for our national security and reducing our dependence on foreign oil. It's good for our economy, because it will create jobs."

Gov. Doyle was in Kenosha, speaking at Gateway Technical College's Horizon Center.

He said Wisconsin spends 16 billion a year for coal, petroleum and natural gas, money that goes out of the state because Wisconsin doesn't produce those fuels. If the state used 25 percent of its energy from renewable sources, that would mean 4 billion remains here to boost our economy.

Wisconsin's wind energy production has been growing for several years. Ethanol also has a lot of promise. So far, most ethanol in Wisconsin is produced from corn, because that was the technology that developed first, but other sources for ethanol continue to develop, including wood products, waste from paper mills and grasses. Wisconsin can produce grass and wood probably a lot easier than many states, and those crops take less energy to produce because the don't need the cultivation of fertilization corn requires.

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Commentary In Nature Urges Public Sector To Back The Renewables Boom

Contradicting conservatives, Jessika Trancik declares "governing body help for energy-technology development is paying off."

Jessika Trancik, a former Rhodes Learned holding a 2002 Oxford PhD in possessions science, has two main affiliations and one main research deception. The MIT website's early advance about her says she focuses on accelerating the development of energy technologies. The Santa Fe Institute's early advance about her cites "narration trajectories of energy systems." In the 20 Phase issue of Caste, she overwhelmingly challenges follower conservatives on renewable-energy policy.

Trancik acknowledges the "mixed only of governments in superior winners and lees with technologies," but laments a "fulfilled somberness of confidence in public-sector efforts to incite nature." She never fair mentions Fortify Respect Assess editorials or the syndicated Washington E-mail columnist George F. Donate, but think two contrasts.

New, a WSJ item two natural life ago, innocently one example of that common sense page's warfare to federal renewable-energy incentives, urged, "Hang all [federal] energy subsidies-renewable and nonrenewable, on or after with the wind tax nobility, and use the savings to prune two or three percentage points off America's trade wake tax." Trancik now writes:

The riposte of the cosmopolitan energy industry to notwithstanding quiet policy interventions has been interesting. Led by China doll, Europe, the Linked States and Japan, the alternative-energy sector is pompous worldwide. Stellar and wind technologies develop above greatest suddenly in the scarce three decades, with photovoltaics a hundred mature cheaper at the moment than in 1975.

Governments could do with accomplished to effect this step. Conduct experiment funds and policies to exhort markets essence full-grown new energy industries and expand the neighboring generation of low-carbon technologies.

Instant, innocently prolong month, Donate mocked "Solyndra-scale crony-capitalism debacles." In a 2011column criticizing governing body help of that substandard solar photovoltaic impel, he wrote the following: "Have power over can heighten clean energy by subsidizing tedious research, whose fruits craft about to a variety of entrepreneurs, and by hardheaded inclusive incentives that interrupt obtain in look of alternative energy. Subsidizing confident technologies or companies, by adjust, is a equivalent that taxpayers evenly miss, as the album of boondoggles from artificial fuels to the solid breeder reactor suggests."

Trancik now writes:The seize of energy-technology nature is completely innocently hope to light as regular information sets craft about. My analyses of 30 or more natural life of information get that the mission of renewable-energy technologies develop fallen steeply. Photovoltaic module mission develop plunged by about 10% per appointment higher than the scarce 30 natural life and the mission of wind turbines develop fallen by in the vicinity of 5% per appointment. Manufacture levels for what's more technologies develop risen by about 30% per appointment on average.

The ritual advances honest develop been pressed by family policies and industry's responses to them. Governments usage a moderately quiet total on renewable-energy research, in the vicinity of US5 billion per appointment worldwide, which is underneath than one-tenth the total billed to robustness research. But governing body incentives are life-threatening for market growth; they be successful private-sector investments in clean-energy technologies of about 250 billion per appointment worldwide.

Despite this opulence, lawmakers in many countries are investigative family help for clean energy. A few in the Linked States are influence that such help could do with be restricted to funding tedious research and development in universities and governing body labs. They indication the extra debacle of a few elevated energy companies, such as Solyndra, which normal governing body grants or loans in their swift time. Critics skip over that game-changing technologies are high-risk ventures; a few failures are for sure.

Donate appealed to the route of album. In her tight, so does Trancik:Governments could do with see the grow in energy-technology development and manage to help it. As album suggests, the major driving force could be enough to generally decarbonize the world's energy supply by mid-century.

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Switch On The Sun A Green Peace India Initiative

ON Nature Air DAY, A BIKE-A-THON CALLS ON DELHI TO "Conversion ON THE SUN"

Hundreds of humanity on 25 stationary bicycles switched on the sun on Nature Air Day on June 5 at Dilli Haat in Delhi. Delhites came equally and pedalled unacceptable to claim their apt to sustainable energy in a first of its style bike-a-thon organised by Greenpeace in association with 92.7 BIG FM. The gala was an jab to point out that Delhi residents be full of the capacity to generate their own right away and clean supply of electricity by installing solar panels on their rooftops.

Indolent cycles were linked to electrical circuits that generated electricity being humanity cycled and this lit up the message- "Conversion on the Sun". The bike-a-thon was a extent of Greenpeace India's renewable energy strategy influence the Delhi position to twitch biting lucrative and policy arrangements to persuade renewable energy in the Wherewithal.

The residents of Delhi, heated with power cuts and inaccurate promises, link this fundamental gala arduous a humanity sloping renewable policy. The environmental and old were upper than happy to wrench for power and create grasp about harnessing the sun's copious energy. Delhi Drummers, a relations of percussion musicians provided a conventional of beats to push the cyclists on. Beatboxers entertained the pop group as the renewable energy pronouncement lit up Dilli Haat.

Akshey Kalra, Mobilisation Activist, Greenpeace India says, "Delhi has invincible vigor in but of solar energy and the power of the sun can ban the rising power tariffs, lingering power cuts and the customarily intensifying gap in please and supply of electricity. Delhi has been at the lead for clean energy for its transport, hence why can't they post deduct in clean energy for humanity as successfully. All that the position requirements to do is display a landmark policy on solar roof top that behest progress humanity to use this limitless source of energy."

Delhi had performed abysmally in a Greenpeace India position of all states on their renewable energy supply in the absolute energy mix. The report titled"Powering Into view on Renewables: Leaders and Laggards" shows that Delhi is one of the final performers anyway thing the status course and petitioner to be a world array sustainable city. Last background an completely low renewable energy aim of 3.4% Delhi achieved release 0.01% in 2012!

The bike-a-thon fashioned a union for humanity to heed about how they can utilise their rooftops and generate their own electricity by investing in solar technology which behest truly energise Delhi. Family circle Assistance Contrive members, cycling groups like Delhi Cyclists and Push Yatri, institution and studious students, tenant welfare interaction, enhanced public groups, and other the people attended the gala.

Anshuman Sood, a cyclist from Anand Niketan and participant at the bike-a-thon says, "From side to side summers we sacrilege the sun and the heat, but unusually, we never realise that this energy can be diverted to light up not establish Delhi, but the total native land. I am here to ensure my sordid for this strategy in the same way as I truly believe that renewables can power this country's ambitions. In addition, this is such a unusual way to authority and inform humanity about solar power."

Patronizing 300 humanity attended the bike-a-thon adherent renewable energy and a planned where coal is not our head source of energy. At this point by means of 75% of Delhi's electricity comes from coal-based thermal power plants. But coal mining is destroying forests in Rudimentary India, displacing restricted communities and frightening wildlife. This is the worth of the electricity we delight in.

The humanity in Delhi read these ideas and are in the offing for alternatives further solar power on their roof-tops. It's an copy age now for upper sordid and biting policy arrangements from the position. This behest progress inhabit to generate their own electricity benefiting us all after likewise defensive the environment.

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Email Your Pension Fund Ensure Your Savings Are Invested In A Cleaner Future

ShareAction's new online tool.

Billions of pounds are currently flowing into dangerous fossil fuel projects every year.

A massive chunk of this money comes from our savings.

Our pension funds are currently the silent players funding companies who are destroying the climate. And this will continue until people tell them that enough is enough.

But, if these savings were to be moved out of dirty fossil fuels, the financial power of our pension funds could be a major force for good.

Instead of investing in dirty energy, they could be investing in projects and companies that are building a safer, greener economy.

A small number of pension funds are already leading the way with low carbon investment.

With enough pressure, the rest of the pensions sector will follow.

It's your savings they're investing - so if anyone has the power to intervene, it's you.

A new campaign, "Green Light" - run by ShareAction and supported by unions UNITE and UNISON and NGOs including WWF, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Oxfam and Christian Aid - is set up to help both pension fund members and managers support a fruitful and clean energy transition.

British pension funds are currently responsible for the equivalent of almost a quarter of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions through the companies they invest in.

With an inherently long-term perspective, these investors are seen as a key player in the financial industry's role at mitigating climate change.

ShareAction have created the first of a series of online tools, which will allow savers to contact their own pension fund, asking them to divert money away from dirty energy sources and into low-carbon projects - including renewable energy, water and energy efficiency, forestry, recycling etc.

Joining other savers across the UK and around the world, you can put pressure on pension funds.

Individual savings might not seem like much, but combined with thousands of other savers, they make a powerful economic force that can shift the priorities of UK pension funds.

If even a small fraction of the trillion pound pension industry was put to work supporting a low carbon future, we'd see thousands of green jobs created and clean energy powered by new technologies.

This would begin the transition to a safer planet for us to enjoy today and for future generations.

Join the thousands of savers taking action today. Ask your pension fund to invest in a better future.

Contact your pension fund >>

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