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Energy Alabama Comments on Alabama Housing Finance Authority’s Design Quality Standards

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Energy Alabama provided comments to the Alabama Housing Finance Authority’s update of their Design Quality Standards in order to encourage more energy efficiency in affordable housing. Much of the affordable housing built in Alabama is designed to meet these minimum standards. Our comments focused on raising the minimum standards in line with today’s market. This …

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Don’t take power for granted, industry says

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A group [Energy Institute of Alabama] made up of state power company officials has released a study showing how much money the energy industry generates for Alabama. It’s a lot — $13.22 billion overall, while supporting 124,000 jobs and paying $385 million in taxes. As gaudy as they are, those numbers may not shock people in …

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Energy Alabama and GASP Weigh In on Clean Energy Incentive Program

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Energy Alabama and GASP submitted comments to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to encourage changes to the Clean Energy Incentive Program (CEIP), part of the Clean Power Plan. Specifically Energy Alabama and GASP requested EPA more equitably define what constitutes a low income community, to use existing measurement and verification methods at use in the market, and …

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Energy Alabama Wins 2016 Air Pollution Control Achievement Award

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Energy Alabama was honored to win the 2016 Air Pollution Control Achievement Award (Education Category)! The award application was submitted under our legal name, Alabama Center for Sustainable Energy. We are a non-profit organization accelerating the transition to sustainable energy in Alabama. The City of Huntsville honored us for our work in the schools to …

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Green, Sustainable Buildings of the Future

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FLORENCE — Energy efficiency is quickly becoming a growth industry in the building trades, but northwest Alabama is lagging compared with the rest of the state, according to advocates. Speakers Monday at the Shoals Creativity Experiment, an ongoing public discussion about renewable energy and sustainability, included Daniel Tait, CEO of Energy Alabama, who said that …

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Movement Shows Importance of Sustainable Energy

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Energy Alabama in Huntsville recently kicked off a movement in efforts to convert Alabama to 100 percent sustainable energy. The local team of Energy Alabama presented a platform for people within Madison County to come together and share ideas as well as act upon those innovations and ideas. “Energy Alabama wanted to launch a movement …

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UAH sustainability program brings changes to campus

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Since 2013, Haley Hix, Sustainability Coordinator at the University of Alabama-Huntsville, has been hard at work, creating and implementing environmentally conscious projects. Her goal in each new endeavor is two-fold: to educate the Huntsville community about sustainable options and to make the UAH campus more environmentally friendly. The small town girl from Tennessee has always …

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Executive Actions on Energy – What It Means

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The last few years have seen a slurry of executive actions on clean, sustainable energy from the Federal government. There’s way more than just the Clean Power Plan. So what is there and what does it mean? In March of this year, President Obama signed an Executive Order, Planning for Federal Sustainability in the Next …

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TVA’s Integrated Resource Plan – What it Means

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Recently the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Board of Directors approved an updated Integrated Resource Plan (IRP). That sounds great! But what does it really mean? What is an Integrated Resource Plan (IRP)? Most simply, an IRP is a common planning tool in the electricity sector. This planning tool helps utilities look into the future to weigh …

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Clean Power Plan Could Create Boom in Tenn. Valley Tech Industry

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TENNESSEE VALLEY (WAFF) – In the past several years, utility companies have started to move away from coal, opting for cheaper natural gas. On Monday, President Obama’s Clean Power Plan highlighted the government’s commitment to renewable energy, and showed power companies that they will profit from their investments. Daniel Tait, with Energy Alabama says there’s still a …

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