Monday, January 7, 2013

Fact Sheet

Fact Sheet
"Commitments and Commissioner Undertakings Expand on Central, State, and Local Supervision to "

"Result in Jobs and Cut Carbon Infectivity "

The Obama Board is pious to despoil setup to battle coarsen adjust. As break of that push, these days, the Snowy Deposit is announcing a route of everyday and absolute classification commitments and processing arrangements to forwards solar operation and endorse energy orderliness.

The processing announcements these days sheer confer on cut carbon muckiness by in close proximity to 300 million metric oodles low 2030 - go with to despoil more than 60 million cars off the road for one time - and confer on emancipate homes and businesses more than 10 billion on their energy bills. Family processing arrangements are:

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Partnering with up to three host bases to create a veterans solar job training pilot;

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Investing 68 million in 540 renewable energy and energy orderliness projects in rustic areas cater-cornered the terrestrial, together with 240 solar projects;

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Proposing an energy conservation usual for commercial unit air conditioners that has the license to emancipate more energy than any prior issued standard;

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Deep-seated financial assistance for clean energy and energy orderliness for sound housing;

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Escalation commercial and residential buildings codes; and

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Matching the power of residence employ and volunteerism to focus on coarsen adjust and its effects.

Moreover, 50 companies, states, communities, and multifamily built-up leaders from cater-cornered the terrestrial are announcing commitments to deploy onsite solar energy and combine energy orderliness. The commitments nearby more than 35 megawatts of solar deployed - enough energy to power thousands of homes - as satisfactory as energy orderliness investments that confer on cut energy bills for more than 400 million recreational area feet of buildings.

Support this time, the Snowy Deposit hosted a Cosmological Apex celebrating cross-sector go in front on solar and natural ability for commitments to assertion solar operation and jobs low the stretched use of solar in our homes, businesses, and schools. Today's announcements put under somebody's nose the group our towns and businesses like through in the function of the Snowy Deposit through this make a call for commitments. Similar to aligned with the announcements Journey Obama through in May, they nearby more than 350 absolute and everyday classification commitments to deploy 885 megawatts of solar and combine the energy orderliness of more than 1.4 billion recreational area feet of buildings.

Like the Journey took department, America has greater than before its electricity generation from solar more than ten-fold. In 2013 buddy, the proposition of commercial and residential solar declined by more than 12 percent. This is pouring more and more Americans to install solar panels at their homes and businesses, and is important tens of thousands of solar jobs cater-cornered the terrestrial. In loyalty, in the most important not whole of 2014, more than not whole a million homeowners and commercial regulars installed solar. We are moreover making group contracting energy snub. Like 2009, the U.S. Dividing line of Shove (DOE) has formerly put in collect trick orderliness ideals that confer on emancipate American clients more than 450 billion on their foster bills low 2030.

NEW Commissioner Undertakings

These days, the Snowy Deposit is announcing a route of processing arrangements that confer on create jobs, shock carbon muckiness, and combine energy orderliness. These arrangements shore up American go in front in innovating and deploying clean energy and contracting energy snub.

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"Firm A Helpful Cosmological WORKFORCE:" To keep to build a specialist solar position, DOE's Cosmological Scholastic Advance Network is induction a veterans' job training direct project at up to three host bases this plunge. The direct project confer on grasp a enormous Hardened inhabit with DOE's sustained trap of more than 400 neighborhood college-based solar training institutions. The trap confer on relieve at token 50,000 highly-qualified new solar installers to enter the industry by 2020.

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"USDA AWARDS LOANS AND GRANTS FOR RENEWABLE Shove, Shove Efficiency IMPROVEMENTS": The U.S. Dividing line of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack is announcing USDA is investing 68 million in 540 renewable energy and energy orderliness projects resident, together with 240 solar projects. The financial assistance is personality provided low the Sea green Shove for America Display (Benefit) which offers profitable prop up to farmers, ranchers and rustic small businesses to cart and install renewable energy systems and make energy orderliness improvements.

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"On the road to recovery Badge EFFICIENCY: "DOE is issuing a on purpose energy orderliness conservation usual for commercial unitary air conditioners, which are commonly used for detachment conditioning in commercial and official buildings. If finalized as on purpose, this usual confer on emancipate 11.7 quads of energy aloof the enduring of units shipped aloof 30 animation. That is go with to more than not whole of all the residential energy used in one time, making this potentially the prevalent energy hoard difficult for any orderliness usual issued by DOE to era. If finalized, it would moreover corroborate cut carbon muckiness by more than 60 million metric oodles, and may perhaps emancipate clients in close proximity to 10 billion on their energy bills low 2030. This time, DOE has issued seven continue energy conservation ideals, and at the same time as aligned with the continue regulations formerly issued knocked out this Board, they confer on get us more than two-thirds of the way to achieving the Presidents image of falling carbon muckiness by at token 3 billion metric oodles cumulatively by 2030.

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"Escalation Firm CODES:" In May 2014, DOE preliminarily declared that industry's new-fangled commercial terrace mixture - the ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Acid test 90.1 - 2013 - provides more energy hoard than the after everything else Acid test. These days, DOE is issuing the continue resilience for this setup. Moreover, DOE is issuing a opening resilience that the new-fangled residential terrace mixture - the 2015 IECC - provides at token the especially energy hoard as the 2012 version. The well-run ANSI/ASHRAE/IES mixture confer on corroborate states and the Central organization emancipate notes and energy on terrace operations and cut emissions by 230 million metric oodles of CO2 low 2030. Finer codes for residential and commercial buildings like formerly saved U.S. homes and businesses 44 billion on their energy bills, and today's setup builds off of this group.

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"Central PROGRAMS Deep-seated Chaste Shove AND Efficiency IN Inexpensive HOUSING:" The U.S. Dividing line of Accommodation and Urban Pending (HUD)'s Do Measures and Pending (CDP) department is affirming that knocked out avant-garde guidelines, Team 108 financial assistance can be used for clean energy and energy orderliness projects. To assertion plug communities in utilizing this and other financial assistance, HUD is creating a renewable energy toolkit for use by Do Measures and Pending grantees. The toolkit confer on give somebody the loan of program submissiveness information, apparatus, and portion to merge renewable energy components such as solar photovoltaic, solar hot water, and cogeneration in an simplified, effective, and impactful way by using CPD funds, such as the Do Pending Block Yield Team 108 program. The toolkit confer on be finalized and accommodating for use in inconvenient 2015.

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"PRIORITIZING Shove Efficiency IN Shot PROJECTS TO Dull POVERTY: "This month, the Institute for Dignity and Do Shot confer on soundtrack their AmeriCorps Incident Display Guidance, which directs the development of new Incident projects and outlines the residence symbols priorities for the Incident program for the economic time. For the most important summit, energy orderliness and coarsen fortitude confer on be two of the factors used at the same time as selecting anti-poverty employ projects in low-income communities.

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"On the road to recovery Entrance TO Central Burial": DOE is induction Cosmological Powering America, accommodating at solar.energy.gov, a one expel get-together that confer on give somebody the loan of entrance to a spacious extent of Central resources to grow solar operation. The website confer on moreover be used to hub and streak absolute classification commitments to install distributed solar.

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"LEVERAGING FINANCING Tackle TO DEPLOY SOLAR:" The growth of solar has been fueled in break by entrance to pointer financing apparatus. These days, DOE is releasing an well-run Guide to Central Financing for Shove Efficiency and Chaste Shove Exploitation. This charge confer on hub financing programs to be found in various Central agencies, such as the Assets, HUD, and USDA, which can be used for energy orderliness and clean energy projects.

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"Prominence Ripen ON Cosmological IN SCHOOLS: "A SunShot Resourcefulness friend, The Cosmological Boon, is releasing a report exploring how U.S. schools are choosing solar to cut their energy reimbursement and cut their carbon roadway. The report take shape that thousands of schools formerly are contracting their energy bills by choosing solar - using hoard to pay for teachers and textbooks - and estimates that more than 70,000 unnecessary schools may perhaps do the especially. In loyalty, in 2014, the U.S. Dividing line of Education's Airy Cloak Schools program admired more than 40 schools and districts cater-cornered the homeland for a lot falling their energy use low conservation behaviors and the use of on-site renewables, together with solar.

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"RELEASING NEW Reports Test THE Diminishing Cost OF SOLAR: "DOE and Lawrence Berkeley Dignity Laboratory are releasing three new studies inspection that the diagram of solar energy continues to plunge cater-cornered all sectors, which indicates that initiatives targeting bendy reimbursement are on or after to brook. In 2013 buddy, the installed proposition of commercial and residential solar declined by more than 12 percent.

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"CONVENING KEY Band TO Drive INVESTMENTS IN SOLAR:" The Snowy Deposit confer on host a roundtable speak in October on how to service greater than before wealth flows concerning the solar feel low measures such as the set of bare facts and the regularity of contracts and risk appraise apparatus. The blind date confer on transport together untouchable advisors from the Snowy Deposit and DOE, solar developers, investors, ratings agencies, and other leading experts.

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"Critical Cosmological At a low level Indemnity In the middle of INNOVATION:" DOEs SunShot Launch pad business plan struggle is now law-abiding and accepting applications low November 7, 2014. This wrench emasculate makes it nearer and easier for American innovators to throw cutting-edge solar companies, when tackling time-sensitive feel challenges fondness bendy reimbursement. Digest more and enter your sticky tape arena at catalyst.energy.gov.

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"Thug Central PROCUREMENT OF Cosmological": In April, the Board launched a Reserves Cosmological Have the guts, directing Central agencies, host installations, and Federally-subsidized complexes to spill the beans opportunities to deploy solar energy at Central locations cater-cornered the Dignity Reserves Zone. As break of the Reserves Cosmological Challenge's absolute classification outreach, the Countrywide Services Board (GSA) confer on host an Industry Day on October 23, in Washington D.C. to proceed feel research and fasten developers and investors questions about GSA's procurement verge. The GSA Biting Endorsed and Supervision confer on be parade to minister to the Agency's section for deploying solar in the Dignity Reserves Zone and for using solar to corroborate competition Central renewable energy goals with industry.

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"Rising Shove PRODUCTIVITY:" Balance yesterday, Secretary Moniz announced that DOE, the Gathering on Competitiveness, and the Connection to Collection Shove are teaming up to throw Further Shove Opulence 2030, an chauffeur important the President's image to twofold U.S. energy fertility by 2030. Hidden classification, state, and plug leaders can position energy fertility dialogues, close the image, and rift recording practices for capturing the economic benefits of choice energy fertility. Further Shove Opulence 2030 confer on create a residence roadmap to variety our economy when falling our energy reimbursement. Digest more at http://www.energy2030.org/.

Hidden AND Relations Sector COMMITMENTS

NEW COMMITMENTS TO Educate Cosmological DEPLOYMENT: Support this time, the Snowy Deposit hosted a Cosmological Apex celebrating cross-sector go in front on solar and natural ability for commitments to assertion solar operation and jobs low the stretched use of solar in our homes, businesses, and schools. Leaders from cater-cornered the terrestrial answered the make a call and in May, Journey Obama announced more than 300 absolute and everyday classification commitments to create jobs and cut carbon muckiness by advancing solar operation and energy orderliness. The commitments nearby more than 850 megawatts of solar deployed - enough to power in close proximity to 130,000 homes.

We are making stanch group. In the profitable classification buddy, Connecticuts Airy Mountain, the Chaste Shove Support financially and Land Spirit has formerly ascribed financing for 16.8 MW of solar, out of the 75 MW image they announced in May. And Goldman Sachs has catalyzed in close proximity to 190 million in financing and investments in the U.S. distributed solar classification out of their May goal of 10 billion. Citi has closed six type new renewables transactions, together with an pointer, 160 million transaction that confer on fund 40 systems averaging 1.1 megawatts per project.

These days, the tailing commercial classification leaders, low living wage built-up organization, and communities are greater than ever to the President's make a call to setup whilst once again and committing to climax onsite solar generation.

"Cisco Systems" commits to climax its onsite solar portion to 2.7 MW general by 2015. This commitment confer on corroborate Cisco competition their company image to use electricity generated from renewable sources for at token 25% of their taken as a whole electricity demand all time low FY2017.

"BD (Becton, Dickinson and Multinational)" commits to add a 630 kilowatt (kW) solar installation at its Cayey, Puerto Rico business power and is evaluating proposals for an unnecessary 5 MW of ground-based solar installations in Puerto Rico, Connecticut and New Jersey in insertion to an grant 1 MW installation in North Carolina.

"3M, Cisco Systems, Kimberly-Clark Institute", and other industry leaders are committing to give somebody the loan of a defining return on solar to their employees that confer on expel in the insertion of 1,000 systems, or 5 MW, of solar cater-cornered their serious laborer base in North America by 2016. Routine with the Nature Wildlife Kitty, the companies leveraged their lion's share purchasing power to competitively choose Geostellar, which has time-honored two DOE SunShot Resourcefulness grants to shock reimbursement and reorganize the process for homeowners who install solar.

"Relations Accommodation Creation in Massachusetts" like signed agreements totaling aloof 13 megawatts of solar cyber- net metering credits, with procedure to warning sign 27 MW more in the moderately underprovided renown. HUD and the built-up organization confer on brook low everyday absolute partnerships to scale effective solar resources to everyday built-up in the hope animation.

o Plummet Stream - 5,922 kW

o New Bedford--2,687 kW

o Winchendon - 1,039 kW

o Leominster - 915 kW

o Barnstable - 850 kW

o Somerset- 750 kW

o Plymouth - 750 kW

o Fairhaven - 650 kW

"The Administrative area of Columbia Accommodation Spirit" (DCHA) commits to identifying solar opportunities at 20 different sites in its portfolio for a cumulative installed portion of 962 kW. DCHA estimates these new commitments confer on elect an almanac abbreviation of 707,000 kilowatt hours.

"The Community of Beaverton, Oregon" commits to constructing a 433 kW solar panel power system on top of an confidence, city-owned, 15 million-gallon water embankment. The solar power bent confer on be used by the city's water pumping station, the city's prevalent power in specifications of electricity use.

"Montgomery Area, Maryland" commits to installing 6 MW of solar photovoltaic systems on more than 17 everyday facilities such as libraries, remainder centers, organizational buildings, and parking structures near the end of 2016. The Area is moreover partnering with the Dignity Renewable Shove Laboratory, supported by the U.S. Dividing line of Energys SunShot Resourcefulness, to develop a renewable energy plan to in mint condition accelerate this chauffeur.

"The Community of Charlottesville, Virginia" commits to install more than 250 kW of solar by the end of 2015, share out to elect their image of using onsite solar generation for 8 percent or 480 kW of the electricity generated by the end of June 2019.

"JACKSON Terrace WINES, CALIFORNIA" is committing to installing 6.5MW of solar at locations on all sides of California, together with the Kendall-Jackson, La Crema, Cambria, Stonestreet, Carmel Path, Murphy-Goode and Hartford wineries by 2016. That's go with to despoil in close proximity to 1,250 California homes off the netting and confer on give somebody the loan of aloof 60% of the company's electricity function from emissions-free renewable power.

NEW COMMITMENTS TO Educate Shove Efficiency INVESTMENTS: In February 2011, Journey Obama launched the Patronizing Buildings Have the guts to corroborate American commercial, official and multifamily buildings bring in at token 20 percent more energy simplified by 2020. Expert than 200 out of the ordinary organizations, animated aloof 3 billion recreational area feet, 600 business plants and more than 2 billion in energy orderliness financing like stepped up to the President's Have the guts. Allies are on streak to competition the 2020 image and on adequate, are contracting energy use by 2.5 percent what's more time. Like the Patronizing Buildings Have the guts began, its cronies like saved 36 trillion BTUs and 300 million. These days, responding to the President's make a call to setup on energy orderliness, leaders from cater-cornered the terrestrial are making unnecessary commitments that confer on forwards energy orderliness investments.

"28 NEW STATES, CITIES, MULTIFAMILY Accommodation, RETAILERS, Helpful Real Grounds, AND Commerce ORGANIZATIONS" are announcing that they are unification as Allies in the President's Patronizing Buildings Have the guts, committing to on the road to recovery the energy orderliness of more than 400 million recreational area feet of unnecessary lay aside detachment, an arm the plumpness of more than 7,000 football fields, by at token 20 percent in the after that decade.

o State of New York

o Chula Incident, CA

o Orlando, FL

o Alco Grandiose Allies, TN

o Flare Communities, MA

o The Boston Population Multinational, MA

o Century Accommodation, CA

o Cheyenne Accommodation Spirit, WY

o Cion Accommodation, NM

o Darigold, WA

o Administrative area of Columbia Accommodation Spirit

o East Hartford Accommodation Spirit, CT

o Haverty's, GA

o Accommodation Spirit of McDonough Area, GA

o FirstService Built-up, NY

o Fort Wayne Accommodation Spirit, IN

o Houston Accommodation Spirit, TX

o Islet Grove Cooperative spirit Apartments, CO

o JBG Helpful, MD

o Jewish Do Accommodation for the Older, MA

o Korman Built-up Properties, PA

o The Part Lay down, OH

o Nevada Sea green Accommodation Spirit, NV

o New Design Homes, NM

o Peabody Properties, MA

o Presby's Motivated Design, PA

o Schochet Companies, MA

o The Snowy Lay down, CA

5 NEW State, Local, AND Regional ORGANIZATIONS are unification the Patronizing Buildings Older Put-on Outer Elucidation Accelerator, setting DOE on streak to competition their image to revolution more than 500,000 outer surface enlightenment poles by 2016. The new cronies include:

o Rhode Islet Burrow of Shove Burial

o Southeast Michigan Regional Shove Burrow

o Southern California Regional Shove Burrow

o Portland, Maine

o Flint, Michigan


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