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Sleeping Giants: TVA and Georgia Power Stuck in Second Gear on Energy Efficiency
This is the third entry in a new blog series entitled Energy Savings in the Southeast. We will dive into the recent performance of Southeastern utilities’ energy efficiency programs, and highlight how the region…
"Energy Efficiency in the Southeast" 2019 Annual Report
SACE’s "Energy Efficiency in the Southeast" 2019 report shows that Southeastern states and utilities continue to rely on expensive, outdated, carbon polluting fossil fuel power plants while underinvesting in abundant low-cost efficiency…
Larry Heiman: A Year of Affordable Home Energy Upgrades Leads to Building Community
As part of the Clean Energy Generation, Larry Heiman used tax incentives and rebates to slash the cost of upgrading his Georgia home to help curb climate-warming pollution. Now, he's spreading the…
FERC complaint filed against TVA could allow customers access to cheaper, cleaner power
On Monday, January 11, 2021, several LPCs filed a FPA complaint at FERC against TVA. Here we'll breakdown the alphabet soup and explain why this has the potential to fundamentally change the…
Time for Virgin Islands to Transfer Power, to Renewables
This blog was written by Simon Mahan, former Energy Policy Manager at the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.
Hurricane Irene and its Impact on Wind Farms
This is the final blog in a three part series examining how natural disasters like hurricanes impact our energy generation. In the past decade, wind turbines have sprouted up along the East…
Sun Rising in Florida? Utility-Scale Solar Projects in Context
SACE Staffers Charlie Coggeshall and George Cavros contributed to this blogpost. It’s been a good run for solar power in Florida in the past few weeks. First, Gulf Power Company announced plans…
Fool's Gold? Nuclear Power and Climate Change
Below is a guest blog post with permission to re-post from Gregory Jaczko, former U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Chairman and Commissioner, originally published in the Huffington Post's "The Blog" on December 14,…
Tesla needs dirt cheap power to charge PowerWall and PowerPack, but from where?
Tesla, the electric car company, is announcing today that it will begin providing batteries to power households and utilities. Already, the blogosphere is catching fire with excitement over the new PowerWall product.…
Study Proves Fossil Fuels Way Worse for Land Use than Renewables
A new, peer-reviewed article published in the scientific journal SCIENCE estimates that 3 million hectares of land (that's 11,583 square miles, or 30,000 square kilometers) have been lost due to oil and gas…