New State Publications

May 2008

Read here a list of new state publications on renewable energy (RE) and energy efficiency (EE) and DOE publications about the adoption of RE and EE technologies in the states. DOE's State Energy Program maintains a database of state publications that currently lists more than 500 titles. You can search this state publications database by state and topic.

• State Publications
• DOE Publications on State-Related Topics

If your state publishes online a document that you don't see listed here, send us a link to it via email. Some of the following documents are available as Adobe Acrobat PDFs. Download Adobe Reader.

• Mainstreaming Solar Electricity: Strategies for States to Build Local Markets

  (PDF 3.52 MB)
  The Clean Energy Groups publishes this report that it prepared with the Peregrine Energy Group, Inc. under the headline "Clean Energy State Program Guide;" 60 pp.; April, 2008.

State Publications

Electric Power and Renewable Energy

• Farmer's Guide to Wind Energy: Legal Issues in Farming the Wind

  (PDF 8.17 MB)
  The Nebraska Energy Office publishes online this report that is a publication of the Farmers' Legal Action Group, Inc.; 293 pp.; June, 2007.

Industry

• Small Farm Energy Primer: An Energy Saving Tool to Assist Small Farmers in Lowering the High Costs of Energy Inputs on their Farms

  (PDF 12.89 MB)
  The Nebraska Energy Office publishes this primer for small farmers about energy projects that was originally published as a print document by the Small Farm Energy Project of the Center for Rural Affairs; 60 pp.; July, 1980.

• The Role of Recycled Water in Energy Efficiency and Greenhouse Gas Reduction

  (PDF 1.50 MB)
  California Flex Your power publishes this report that was prepared by Navigant Consulting for the California Sustainability Alliance under a project funded by California utility ratepayers through the California Public Utilities Commission; 89 pp.; May, 2008.

DOE Publications on State-Related Topics

Buildings

• Building America — Research Toward Zero Energy Homes The Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver Zero Energy Demonstration Home

  (PDF 725 KB)
  This brochure describes the 2005 demonstration home designed by NREL and the Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver; 4 pp.; April, 2008.

Electric Power and Renewable Energy

• Solar America City — San Diego, California

  (PDF 366 KB)
  This fact sheet features San Diego, California, as a DOE Solar America City. Through various collaborations at the local level, San Diego has a goal of 50 megawatts of solar installed by 2010; 2 pp.; May, 2008.

• Solar Photovoltaic Financing: Deployment on Public Property by State and Local Governments

  (PDF 1.17 MB)
  The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has published a new report that was written by NREL analysts Karlynn Cory, Jason Coughlin, and Charles Coggeshall; 72 pp.; May, 2008.

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