Solar Valley Coalition
Renewable Energies
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.
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
Growing Green: The Potential for Green Job Growth in Tennessee.  Labor Market Information Section
Employment Security Division. TN Department of Labor and Workforce Development.  Nov. 2008.

Tennessee goes green.  States eager to tap conservation, renewable energy.  David Flessner.  Chattanooga
Times Free Press.  Feb. 3, 2009.

Yes We Can: Southern Solutions for a National Renewable Energy Standard
Prepared by: Southern Alliance for Clean Energy February 12, 2009

Energy Self-Reliant States.  State by State Renewable Potential.  October 2009.
New Rules Project.

Solar industry's promises bring environmental challenges for Tennessee.  
By Chas Sisk • THE TENNESSEAN • August 9, 2009

Renewable energy outperforms nuclear.  By Paul Hanley, The Star Phoenix
June 23, 2009

Local Clean Power: Renewable Electricity Opportunities in the Southeast United
States.  April 2009.  World Resource Institute.