Clean Energy Week
With concerns mounting that the Congress may fail to enact climate and energy legislation this year, we are dialing up our advocacy efforts at the Alliance. We are teaming with more than 30 organizations, interest groups, businesses and associations to create the first-ever Clean Energy Week, which will occur February 1-5 here in Washington, D.C.
Friends, we will be asking you to join us as we push for the Congress to put legislative action on strong climate and clean energy legislation back where it belongs – on the front burner! Poll after poll shows that the American people want clean energy legislation; and businesses from coast-to-coast are standing up to say that such legislation is vital not just to the world’s environment, but to our effort to rebuild the economy and enhance our energy security.
During Clean Energy Week, more than 120 CEOs are coming to D.C. to meet with Members of Congress to urge them to enact meaningful legislation – and the Alliance will be right here with them.
The Clean Energy Week agenda features a host of informative conferences, workshops, receptions, seminars, briefings, blogs and outreach activities. Contact Sandy Fazeli Fard (sfard@ase.org) for more information about this action-packed week, and be on the lookout for an appeal from me for you to add your voice to the roar for climate and energy legislation that we hope to unleash on the Congress that first week of February!
EE Global Blog: Voices of Efficiency
EE Global 2010 planning is well underway, but I’m too anxious to begin the key conversations and sharing of ideas, solutions and the creation of intersections that will take place in the Washington, DC Convention Center from May 10 through 12 to wait, so… I’ve posted the first post on the EE Global Blog, and I hope you will join me in this conversation today! The blog will offer opinions, commentary, thought-pieces and announcements of value to the clean energy community – and we need your voice and involvement to make this a useful and informative tool. You can contact Jane Teeling (jteeling@ase.org) or Audrey Cotton (acotton@ase.org) to find out more about writing for the EE Global Blog.
Clean Energy & Efficiency Globally
2009 ended on a strong note for driving energy efficiency in developing economies. In November, China and the U.S. inked a bilateral agreement expanding their cooperation on climate change, energy and the environment and opened many doors of opportunity for the energy efficiency sector.
Our fact sheet on the bilateral agreement highlights the elements of the agreement directly impacting energy efficiency. China is an exciting new market, to be sure, and I hope our fact sheet gives you a glimpse of the energy efficiency opportunities we can tap into there!
We’ve also published a fact sheet on the Renewables and Efficiency Deployment Initiative (Climate REDI) announced by the U.S. DOE in Copenhagen in December. This program also promises a wealth of opportunities for the efficiency sector to promote energy efficiency as a solution to the extreme energy poverty seen in many developing countries.
So, we’ve come to the end of another amazing week in this decade of energy efficiency. I hope you have a terrific weekend and come back on Monday “recharged” and ready to seize the enormous opportunities to advance energy efficiency that are before us!
Best,
Kateri Callahan
President, Alliance to Save Energy
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