Resource | Source and Description | Audience | Topic | Type | Additional Tags | File |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Western NC Energy Cost-Share Assistance Program (Energy CAP) |
Energy CAP provides opportunities for renewable energy production and improved energy efficiency for WNC farms and small businesses through free grant application assistance, site assessments, consultations and energy audits. |
Service |
||||
U.S Energy Mapping System — Renewable Energy Power Plants |
A map of renewable energy power plants across the U.S. |
Map |
||||
TVA — Green Power Providers |
Details of TVA's Green Power program for members of TVA-controlled local power companies (Note: The Green Power Provider program will be retired and closed to new applications as of December 31, 2019) |
Policy or Regulation |
||||
Tools to Build Local Power - Clean Energy |
Browse a list of the proven resolutions, actions, and rules cities can adopt to promote local economic development from clean energy. |
Factsheet |
||||
The Carbon-Free City Handbook |
The Carbon-Free City Handbook is designed to help city staff implement climate policies and actions that resolutely place their communities on an aggressive path toward sustainable, low-carbon economies. |
Guide or Toolkit |
||||
System Advisor Model |
The System Advisor Model (SAM) is a techno-economic model designed to facilitate decision making for people involved in the renewable energy industry. |
Tool or Calculator |
||||
State Community Power Score Map |
The Institute for Local Self-Reliance's Community Power Score map assigns points to each state based on its policy environment for supporting local energy action. |
Report Policy or Regulation Map |
||||
State and Local Solution Center |
Explore resources that enable strategic investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies through the use of innovative practices across the United States by a wide range of stakeholders, in partnership with state and local organizations and community-based nonprofits. |
Guide or Toolkit |
||||
SolSmart National Designation Program |
The SolSmart solar program is a national designation program, funded by the Department of Energy, to recognize communities removing barriers and promoting solar by making it easier and more affordable to install systems. |
Guide or Toolkit Service |
||||
Solar-Plus-Storage 101 |
An article from the Solar Energy Technologies office explaining solar storage technology |
Factsheet |
Solar News
Energy Tech University Prize 2022 Competition
An Appalachian State University student team earned a Technology Bonus Prize in the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Tech University Prize 2022 Comp...
Betty's Biscuits Goes Solar
Boone, NC - Local restauranteur, Tina Houston, operates a successful food truck, Betty's Biscuits. Until this past sunny, late fall Sunday, she powere...
Mobile PV System Enables Flexible Use
In the summer of 2018, Cameron Van Dyke, Assistant Professor in the Applied Design Department, reached out to Brent Summerville, Practitioner-in-Resid...
Off-Grid Electric System - Kellogg Residence
The Sustainable Technology program has a new relatively new Photovoltaics II class. The focus is on battery-based, off-grid solar electric syste...