Since the beginning of 2000, GENI has been focused on advancing renewable
energy awareness and development. We have coordinated expert panels on
hydropower, wind, solar, geothermal and biomass energy at each IEEE
Power Engineering Society meeting. Each of these sessions has become
a feature story in the Power Engineering Review, reaching thousands of
utility engineers. GENI's CD-ROM, "There
is no energy crisis" was distributed to all 190 UN
Ambassadors and UN agencies at the UN
Summit on Sustainable Development.
Now, led by Britain, a dozen nations
have formed a partnership
to promote the use of renewable energy around the world. This is a breakthrough
— as almost every nation remains addicted to fossil fuels for power production
and transport. Renewables are just 8% of the global primary energy — yet
the resource potential could actually provide all the energy needs of
our planet!
This multinational Partnership is promoting key points of the G8 Renewable
Task Force: portfolio standards, incentive tariffs, international collaboration,
micro-financing schemes, and shifting support from fossil fuel subsidies
(over $200 billion/year) to renewable technologies. The GENI staff
has summarized the best renewable energy policies on our web site at:
www.geni.org
Click on Policy
Options. Please share these recommendations with your policy-makers.
We realize that most nations look
to the United States for leadership. However, the new US Energy Bill did
not pass in this session of Congress — giving us a window of opportunity
to inform our policy-makers of these enlightened renewable energy policies
this month. The question we pose: "How can the United States
meet it's energy needs in the most economic, reliable and environmentally
sustainable manner?" (As a non-profit, GENI cannot lobby
legislators, but we can educate them!)
Please vote
with your dollars by investing in the sustainability of our planet.
