Solar Valley Coalition
Renewable Energies
State key in energy debate   Stephen Smith:  (SACE) Knoxville News 6/23/07
Resource and Employment Impact of a Renewable Portfolio Standard in the Tennessee Valley
Authority Region      July 2006   Jack Barkenbus, Research Scientist     Institute for a Secure and Sustainable
Environment R. Jamey Menard, Research Associate    Dept. of Agricultural Economics, University of Tennessee
Energizing Rural America: How Renewable Electricity Standards Generate Rural Economic Prosperity By
Patrick Mazza, Research Director, Climate Solutions and Harvesting Clean Energy Network (Farmers Union)
Green Electricity Scenarios for Ontario:  Analysis of Resource Potential and Scenario Assumptions.  The Pembina
Institute (2007)

Analysis and Scenario Modelling of the Ontario Power System by Marc Godin, Portfire Associates • July 2007
Scenarios for a Clean Energy Future   Prepared by the Interlaboratory Working Group on Energy-Efficient and
Clean-Energy Technologies (2000)   Prepared for Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (U. S. Department of
Energy)   
ARC'S ENERGY GOALS:  Develop the Appalachian Region's energy potential to increase the supply of locally produced, clean,
affordable energy, and to create and retain jobs.
  • Strategic Objective 1: Promote energy efficiency in Appalachia to enhance the Region’s economic competitiveness.
  • Strategic Objective 2: Increase the use of renewable energy resources, especially biomass, in Appalachia to produce
    alternative transportation fuels, electricity, and heat.
  • Strategic Objective 3: Support the development of conventional energy resources, especially advanced clean coal, in
    Appalachia to produce alternative transportation fuels, electricity, and heat.
Bringing Clean Energy to the Southeastern United States - Achieving the Federal Renewable
Portfolio Standard:  SACE (October 2007)
TN's Road to Energy Independence.  Prepared by the Blue Green Alliance.  
Overview of new clean energy job growth potential.
FEDERAL ELECTRICITY SUBSIDIES:  Information on Research Funding, Tax Expenditures, and
Other Activities That Support Electricity Production
October 2007.  GAO-08-102.      Total R&D Expenditures from FY 2002 to FY 2007: $11.5 billion
with nuclear receiving $6.2 billion, fossil fuel receiving $3.1 billion and renewable energy
receiving $1.4 billion.  Total Tax Expenditures from FY 2002 to FY 2007: $18.2 billion with fossil
fuel receiving $13.7 billion and renewable energy receiving $2.8 billion.
Renewable Energy Businesses in Tennessee.  A directory by product type,
business type, and business name.
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency:Economic Drivers for the 21st Century
Roger Bezdek, Principal Investigator, Management Information Services, Inc.
for the American Solar Energy Society.  2007