2010 Renewable Energy Market Conference

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Renewable Energy Markets 2010 Conference
October 19-22, 2010 | Portland, OR

Register now at this year's exciting Renewable Energy Markets 2010 conference in Portland, Oregon from October 19-22, 2010.

Topics include:

• Messaging and Marketing that Works
• Consumer Trends and Profiles
• Growing Utility Green Power Programs
• Renewable Energy Regulation, Cap and Trade, and RES Impacts
• Voluntary and Compliance Renewable Energy Markets
• Renewable Markets: Interaction with Carbon Offsets
• Renewable Portfolio Standard Program Evaluation

Agenda Available Now. There's something for everyone this year, whether you're a generator, marketer, utility, policymaker, or just want to learn more about where the markets are headed and opportunities in the new green economy. Join us Tuesday night for the opening reception, and stay through Saturday for a bus tour of several local sustainable wineries in the Portland area. See the REM 2010 agenda.

Don't Miss the Special Sessions. The RPS Collaborative will present these special sessions during REM 2010 focused on the intersection between the voluntary and compliance renewable energy markets:

• Wednesday, Oct. 20, 4:30-5:15 p.m. — REC Price Transparency and Data Access
• Thursday, Oct. 21, 11:15 a.m.-12 noon — In-State Generation and RPS Set-Asides
• Friday, Oct. 22, 8:30-9:30 a.m. — Integrating Renewables into the Grid

2010 Green Power Leadership Awards. Join us for the 2010 Green Power Leadership Awards, presented annually to leaders in the renewable energy industry at a banquet held on October 20, 2010, in conjunction with REM 2010.

Thanks to Our Sponsors. Renewable Energy Markets 2010 is proud to be sponsored by EarthEra, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Green Power Partnership, U.S. Department of Energy, Nexant, Pacific Power, PGE, 3Degrees, Green Mountain Energy, Sterling Planet, Iberdrola Renewables, and Community Energy.

Show Off Your Stuff. The exhibition floor will be packed with booths and exhibits showing off the companies that will lead the future of the renewable energy market, from purchasers and marketers, to offset sellers, to developers, traders, brokers, investors, and certifiers. Don't miss out on this once a year opportunity to make an impact on the industry's leaders and catch the eye of the media by exhibiting and sponsoring. Learn more by becoming an exhibitor or becoming a sponsor.

Reserve Your Hotel Room at a Discounted Rate. This year's conference will be held at the Doubletree Hotel Portland, the city's first Green Seal certified hotel. Reserve now to ensure availability.

Peek at Last Year's Photos. Last year's conference in Atlanta was a great success. Check out our Who's Who of the renewable energy industry here.

Register now and secure your spot today!

Conference Contact: Please contact Alison Lambert at 415-561-2103 or alison@resource-solutions.org with questions about the conference or sponsorship information.

About Renewable Energy Markets

For 15 years, Renewable Energy Markets (REM) has defined and expanded marketplace opportunities for clean power. Bridging the interests of renewable energy generators, marketers, and utilities with those of purchasers, policymakers, and the communities that benefit from clean energy, REM is the nation's premier forum for the energy community to gather, learn from each other, and recognize best practices for promoting renewable energy. This year's conference will take place in Portland, Oregon from October 19-22, 2010.

Conference details online at http://www.renewableenergymarkets.com/

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Renewable Energy Certificates

Renewable Energy Certificates

Western Climate Initiative Releases Comprehensive Program Design

The Western Climate Initiative (WCI) released a comprehensive program design, which includes recommendations regarding voluntary purchases and the role of renewable energy certificates (RECs). WCI includes 11 partner states and provinces and has a goal to reduce 2005 greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 15 percent by 2020.

Similar to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) model rule, the WCI program design includes an optional mechanism that sets aside allowances to be retired in recognition of voluntary renewable energy purchases. It will be up to each WCI Partner jurisdiction to decide whether to adopt this provision.

The WCI program design also recommends that RECs have no compliance role in the WCI cap-and-trade program. In this way, RECs and GHG allowances would be separate markets, and complications from the overlap of the two regulatory regimes would be avoided. If renewable energy from outside the WCI region is imported into the region, WCI would not attribute a greenhouse gas emissions value to it, regardless of whether the associated environmental attributes had already been sold into the voluntary market or for state RPS compliance.

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Top 50 Green Power Purchashers

EPA Releases Top 50 Green Power Purchasers

The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Green Power Partnership has released its latest list of top green power purchasers. Retaining their places at the top of the list were Intel Corporation, Kohl's Department Stores, Whole Foods Market, City of Houston, and Dell Inc. 

There were a number of newcomers to the Top 50 list including: Washington, D.C. (No. 14), TD Bank, N.A. (No. 15), the state of Illinois (No. 23), Pearson, Inc. (No. 27), Chicago Public Schools (No. 35), and Harris N.A. (No. 42). BD (No. 19) and the Port of Portland (No. 49) both rose in the rankings by nearly doubling their green power purchases.

Collectively, the top 50 largest purchases amount to more than 12 billion kWh annually, or approximately 70 percent of the green power commitments made by all EPA Green Power Partners.

EPA's Green Power Partnership works with more than 1,200 partner organizations that voluntarily purchase green power to reduce the environmental impacts of conventional electricity use. Overall, the partners buy more than 17 billion kWh of green power annually.


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Dear Scotts, If one law helped shrink the hole in the ozone layer, most people would think it was good. If the same law helped save our forests from acid rain, removed toxic lead from our gasoline and lowered the number of our children developing asthma, most people would consider it great. And if that same exact law saved our country nearly $22 trillion over 20 years, most people would call it a landmark piece of legislation and a model of American leadership. That law exists -- it's called the Clean Air Act. But right now, lobbyists from the fossil fuel industry are trying to gut this crucial law and roll back decades of progress for our economy, our health and our environment. Tell big polluters that clean air belongs to us -- and it isn't for sale. Join Alec Baldwin, Kris Kristofferson and Gloria Reuben by adding your picture or video to Repower America's Clean Air Act video today. The Clean Air Act has received overwhelming bipartisan support over the years. In fact, one of the biggest updates to the law was signed by President George H.W. Bush in 1990. Yet the fossil fuel industry is targeting one of the provisions that makes this law so successful -- the section that empowers the EPA to limit greenhouse gas pollution threatening our public health and welfare. They're trying to weaken the law that's given us cleaner cars, lower rates of cancer and a huge increase in air quality. Add your voice to the new video and take a stand for clean air by midnight on Friday, September 10: www.RepowerAmerica.org/MyCleanAir We'll select the best submissions to be in our final video. The Clean Air Act is our last, best line of defense against the fossil fuel industry. Supporters like us need to take action today and save this vitally important law. Thanks for getting involved at this critical moment, Dave Boundy Campaign Manager The Climate Protection Action Fund's Repower America campaign Contributions or gifts to the Climate Protection Action Fund are not tax deductible.   RepowerAmerica.org | Facebook | Twitter | Unsubscribe This email was sent to scottscontracting@gmail.com. Paid for by the Climate Protection Action Fund

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