{"id":23624,"date":"2014-03-17T19:46:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T19:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/?p=326515"},"modified":"2014-03-17T19:46:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T19:46:57","slug":"government-encourages-clean-energy-by-creating-wind-resource-centers-around-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/government-encourages-clean-energy-by-creating-wind-resource-centers-around-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Encourages Clean Energy By Creating Wind Resource Centers Around the Country"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/northewestturbine-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"The U.S. Department of Energy has announced six regional resource centers around the country. Photo credit: Renewable Northwest Project\"><\/p>\n<p>With wind energy rising to the <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2014\/03\/07\/wind-energys-rise-milestone\/\" target=\"_blank\">fifth-largest electricity source in the U.S.<\/a>, the desire for more information and help deploying it won&#8217;t be dying down any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>Recognizing this, the&nbsp;the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and&nbsp;National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windpoweringamerica.gov\/filter_detail.asp?itemid=4144\" target=\"_blank\">announced the development<\/a> of six Wind&nbsp;Energy Regional Resource Centers around the country. The centers span the nation&#8217;s different regions and will be managed by various renewable energy groups from Massachusetts to Alaska. They will be administered by NREL.<\/p>\n[caption id=\"attachment_326523\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/northewestturbine.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The U.S. Department of Energy has announced six regional resource centers around the country. Photo credit: Renewable Northwest Project\" src=\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/northewestturbine.jpeg\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\"><\/a> The U.S. Department of Energy has announced six regional resource centers around the country. Photo credit: Renewable Northwest Project[\/caption]\n<p>The DOE did not release addresses or opening dates, but listed the names, areas and operators of each center:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Northeast Wind Resource Center, operated by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleanegroup.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Clean Energy Group<\/a>&nbsp;(CEG) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seadvantage.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sustainable Energy Advantage<\/a>&nbsp;(SEA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>America&#8217;s Islanded Grids Resource Center, operated by the <a href=\"http:\/\/alaskarenewableenergy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Renewable Energy Alaska Project<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/islandinstitutealaska.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Island Institute<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Northwest Wind Resource and Action Center, operated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rnp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Renewable Northwest Project<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Southeast Regional Resource Center for Wind Energy, operated by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secoastalwind.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Southeastern Coastal Wind Coalition<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Four Corners Wind Resource Center, operated by the <a href=\"http:\/\/utahcleanenergy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Utah Clean Energy Alliance<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Midwest and Prairie Regional Wind Resource Center, operated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windustry.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Windustry<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The Northeast Wind Resource Center will address the need for interstate cooperation and will emphasize sharing of experiences and best practices,&#8221;&nbsp;Maria Blais Costello, program coordinator for CEG, wrote in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleanegroup.org\/blog\/clean-energy-group-and-sustainable-energy-advantage-to-operate-u-s-department-of-energy-s-northeast-wind-resource-center\/#.UydJRq1dXFd\" target=\"_blank\">a blog post<\/a> announcing the group&#8217;s resource center management. &#8220;It will enable fact-based siting decisions driven by an inclusive process.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will serve the information needs of New England and New York in the case of land-based wind, and that same region plus the state of New Jersey for offshore wind. CEG will spearhead efforts around offshore wind, and SEA will focus on land-based wind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The DOE says the centers will work with legislators and politicians in those areas &#8220;to ensure they have the tools to make informed decisions about wind energy projects and related policies in their jurisdictions.&#8221; The centers will also be used for education, outreach and challenge mitigation when it comes to deploying wind for communities, homes and businesses.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the wind centers, the DOE made several other renewable energy announcements in the past two months. In February, it announced that the&nbsp;solar industry&nbsp;is&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2014\/02\/17\/solar-prices-governments-goal\/\" target=\"_blank\">more than 60 percent of the way<\/a> to achieving what it deems as &ldquo;cost-competitive, utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) electricity.&rdquo; The DOE also announced <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2014\/03\/10\/government-cost-going-solar\/\" target=\"_blank\">$2.2 million in grants<\/a> to solar companies that it believes can help bring down the cost of going solar.<\/p>\n<p>The department also announced the college students from around the world who are taking part in the <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2014\/02\/13\/college-students-2015-solar-decathlon\/\" target=\"_blank\">2015 Solar Decathlon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visit EcoWatch&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/category\/renewable-business\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>RENEWABLES<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;page for more related news on this topic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/stumbler\/EcoWatch\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"stumbleupon\" src=\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/stumbleupon.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"125\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,57],"tags":[2892,4737,2913],"class_list":["post-23624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","category-leed-news","tag-business","tag-featured","tag-renewables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}