On 2 March 2012, RAP Senior Advisor Dr David Crossley received an Energy All-Star Award from the Australian Alliance to Save Energy for outstanding achievements in moving Australia towards a smarter, cleaner energy sector. The prestigious awards recognises those individuals who have demonstrated exemplary dedication, innovation and passion in furthering the deployment of clean energy,…
Berlin, Germany RAP Europe’s recent article published in the German Financial Times was highlighted by European parliamentarian Claude Turmes in his keynote speech in Berlin on February 29, at the annual conference of the Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative EnergieEffizienz.An English version of this article can be found here. The conference brought together key members of government, industry…
The tale of today’s energy-efficiency programs is a good news, bad news story. The bad news is that many energy-efficiency programs have suffered from the harsh state of national fiscal realities, which have resulted in government roll backs of energy-efficiency funding and some program disruption. The good news is that utility energy-efficiency programs are, for…
RAP Senior Associate Lisa Schwartz has been named to serve as the Integrated Resource Planning expert representative to the committee that guides transmission planning for the US Western Interconnection. The Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) Board of Directors approved her nomination at its March meeting. Among the committee’s functions are managing WECC’s new 10- and…
RAP has been chosen as a recipient of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s (ACEEE) 30th Anniversary Award, honoring individuals and organizations for their outstanding contributions to the field of energy efficiency. The award was made at a Dec. 7, 2010 ceberation in Washington, DC. In making the award, ACEEE said RAP “has been…
Richard Cowart, a director and principal of the Regulatory Assistance Project, has been chosen to head up the Department of Energy’s Electricity Advisory Committee (EAC), which advises DOE on implementing federal energy legislation and modernizing the nation’s electricity delivery system. Cowart chaired his first meeting of the EAC on Oct. 29. Its 27 members include…
RAP’s Richard Sedano was presented with the National Association of Regulatory Utilities Commissioners’ Mary Kilmarx Award during the organization’s 121st Annual Convention in Chicago. Read more….
