Wind Potential in Tennessee

When a community wants to learn more about alternative energy, the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy has always been willing to listen. We rarely have an opportunity to step in and physically influence opportunity, but in the case of the town of Greeneville, we had a chance to do just that. Through an important project [...]

Citizens Take Just Say No To Coal to the Streets

On April 20th citizens from across the country descended on Charlotte, North Carolina to deliver a “Call to Conscience” message to Jim Rogers and Duke Energy that construction of the 800 MW new Unit 6 at the Cliffside coal plant is not OK.  In what became the largest anti-coal rally in the history of the [...]

Reassessing renewable energy

In fits and starts, energy experts are reassessing renewable energy. Ken Silverstein of EnergyBiz Insider recently commented on offshore wind possibilities. … the Obama administration says that wind facilities placed offshore along the East Coast could replace most of the coal-fired power plants now in the United States. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says that the [...]