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Local Clean Power

Author: Creech, Dennis, Eliot Metzger, Samantha Putt Del Pino, John D. Wilson
Date: 2009
Periodical: Southeast Energy Opportunities
Abstract: Southeast states seeking solutions to current and future energy challenges have a major opportunity to use existing technology to harness local renewable energy resources. Our regional assessment, drawing on recent government and regional studies, suggests sufficient renewable energy resources to meet as much as 30 percent of the Southeast’s electric power needs within the next 15 years. National, regional, and state renewable energy potential studies in the Southeast show that available biomass, solar, wind, and hydroelectric resources can play a significant role in meeting the region’s 21st century electric power needs. Sustainably developed biomass resources can be an alternative to new coal and nuclear baseload electric power plants. Solar, wind, and low-impact hydropower can be integrated to meet intermediate and/or peak electricity demands.
View: local_clean_power_wri.sace.southface.pdf


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