Power to the people: local governments go green
Abstract Local governments could become important vehicles for green power by acting as community aggregators and offering consumers the opportunity to express local preferences for cleaner power sources through the purchase of renewable energy.
Promoting Renewable Energy in a Market Environment: A Community-Based Approach for Aggregating Green Demand
PREFACE This report is the result of a partnership between the Land and Water Fund of the Rockies (LAW Fund) and the Community Office for Resource Efficiency (CORE). It introduces, describes, and justifies a new community-based approach for selling clean power we have developed in Colorado. We believe this grassroots approach can play an important role in commercializing renewable resource technologies in an increasingly competitive electric utility industry. The Community Office for Resource Efficiency is a non-profit energy office funded by a unique coalition of three local governments and three utilities. Based in Aspen, Colorado, CORE's mission is to promote energy efficiency and renewable energy in western Colorado. CORE was established due to the efforts of a grassroots advocacy group interested in resource efficiency issues. undertaken to produce this report was critical in leading to the offering of a wind energy product by several utilities in Colorado. Throughout this project we have greatly appreciated the counsel, flexibility, and patience of Cathy Ghandehari, the Contracting Officer's Technical Representative. Many others played essential roles in developing the Colorado green pricing programs, providing advice, and reviewing draft versions of this report. We would especially like to thank The views expressed in this report represent those of the LAW Fund and CORE, and not necessarily those of the DOE. The DOE's financial support for this project in no way represents an endorsement of the views or findings represented in this report.
Cooperative Collection Development
The author discusses cooperative collection development from an historical perspective and examines some of the projects conceived and implemented during the past forty years. In many cases the projects failed even after years of concentrated effort. However, more important than these failures are new efforts that are being made. The major focus of this article is on both current regional projects and the more broadly based ARL-sponsored North American Collections Inventory Project. The author discusses these efforts and offers some specific judgments regarding the possibility that these projects will lead to a truly successful coordinated collection development project on a national basis.