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Green Spirit Awards: Two leading sources of dehydration team up to save water! (HINT: One's beer.)

This is the fifth post in our Green Spirit Awards monthly blog series, highlighting breweries, wineries and distilleries in the Southeast using clean energy to create tasty, sustainable beverages. You can read…

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New Shell Oil Spill in the Gulf Underscores Need to Transition to Clean Energy

An oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico reported on Friday serves as a stark reminder of the consequences of perpetuating the fossil fuel era through risky offshore drilling. Shell spilled more…

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Wind Power Provides 40% of Electricity to Southwest Power Pool

This blog is part of the Southern Wind Energy Association's Windy Wednesday series leading up to the wind energy industry's largest annual event, WINDPOWER 2016, being hosted in New Orleans May 23-26. Registration…

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First Legal Challenge to the Clean Power Plan Dismissed

Today, the DC Circuit dismissed the first legal challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan. The lawsuit, filed by the coal industry and several coal dependent states, claimed that EPA…

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Breezy for the Big Easy: WINDPOWER 2016 heading to New Orleans

This blog is the last in a series from Southern Alliance for Clean Energy staff attending the American Wind Energy Association’s WINDPOWER 2015 Conference & Expo in Orlando, Florida.  After each WINDPOWER conference, attendees…

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Breezy for the Big Easy: Wind Power for Louisiana

This is the third post in a blog series discussing state-by-state highlights of wind energy throughout the South in the lead up to the WINDPOWER Expo in Orlando, FL, May 18 –…

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Why the South is the Next Frontier for Wind Energy

This blog entry was written by Allie Brown, former Clean Energy Advocacy Manager at SACE.

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EPA proposed regulations suggest states capture up 6 times more efficiency in the Southeast

On June 2, the EPA released its proposed rules on existing coal fired power plants. In our press release, we discussed that the proposed standards call for reductions in carbon emissions from…

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Big Wind Turbines, Big Opportunity for the South

The Department of Energy recently announced a $2 million funding opportunity to improve logistics for taller wind turbines, which is big news for everyone in the South. Not only could the funding…

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Efficiency Works for Louisiana

This blog was originally posted by the Alliance for Affordable Energy. On June 26th in Baton Rouge, the Louisiana Public Service Commission voted 3-2 to reinstate the statewide plan for energy efficiency…