Applied Solutions

05/27/2015

Our June 9th webinar will feature ILSR Director of Democratic Energy, John Farrell, as he reports on the potential of solar rooftop projects on local government and public buildings. Don't miss it! Sign up today at http://bit.ly/ASWebinars.

04/13/2015

Check out this infographic from Energy Self-Reliant States looking at solar energy in Missouri!

03/31/2015

Here's an exciting recent update on King County's Bullitt Center that was featured as an Applied Solutions project profile (http://bit.ly/1IME68H) last year. Read how the Bullitt Center is hoping to spur governments, universities and other institutions take the Living Building Challenge.

Two years after opening, Capitol Hill’s Bullitt Center is running so efficiently that tenants paid nothing for electricity and the building generated 60 percent more than it used.

01/14/2015

How has this community demonstrated that clean energy can save money?

With support from the Alaska Renewable Energy Fund, strong local leadership, and sustained effort, the Kodiak Electric Association (KEA), a cooperative electric utility, has achieved over 99 percent renewable energy electric generation in the town of Kodiak, Alaska. KEA has developed a renewable ene

12/30/2014

Applied Solutions membership base continues to grow, this year we welcomed 5 new affiliates and recently engaged 7 interested affiliates! Thank you to all of our Local Government Affiliates that continue to build a local clean economy. Check out a complete list at bit.ly/1thRnx2.

12/23/2014

Applied Solutions Report Finds Efficiency Financing Program Could Save Millions While Creating Local Jobs. Read the full report on our website at bit.ly/1x4Hve5

12/17/2014

Yeah, baby!

USGBC's Joe Crea interviews "Austin DC Power" in a fun discussion about what the Emerge Alliance is promoting safe DC power in commercial buildings

12/08/2014

Slow growth in electricity demand (or, in some places, flat or declining sales) and growing numbers of customer photovoltaic systems are creating concern among utilities about their ability to adequately recover the costs associated with producing electricity. In response, there has been a disturbin…

11/26/2014

We had a great time at the Business of Local Energy Symposium in October hearing presentations on Community Choice Aggregation, microgrids, energy efficiency and demand response, energy storage and financing! Resources from the Symposium can now we found online!

The Challenge: To significantly decrease greenhouse gas emissions, the energy system of the future must be radically different from the energy system of today. The shift is already underway: distributed renewable energy is displacing centralized fossil fuel power.

11/20/2014

Great day at the National League of Cities Expo in Austin, Texas! We love talking to local governments on their efforts with clean energy, water efficiency and transportation projects!

11/13/2014

3 successful initiatives were presented at the Growing Sustainable Communities in Dubuque, Iowa with shared lessons in public-private partnerships, engaging stakeholders, finding resources, and increasing success. Find out what the presenters had to say.

Many communities want to use and provide renewable energy options. But moving from green energy ideas to a plan-of-action and an installed system can be an overwhelming process, stretching across years, changing budgets and the rapidly developing industry of renewable energy technology.