What's Happening in Your State?
Energy issues vary widely from one state to the next. Differences in climate, natural resources, and political and regulatory attitudes have all affected energy decisions. And traditionally, most electricity issues have been decided at the state, not federal, level.
There is a great deal of information on the web about energy issues in different states—and it's growing all the time. This page will point you to valuable state level energy resources on the web. In areas where UCS has been active, we include our own information. Be sure to check the UCS Web Action Center for activist alerts that tell how you can get involved.
Contents
State Policy Information
Basic Energy Data
Renewable Energy in Your State
Renewable Energy Resource Potential
Environmental Impacts
State Government Energy Agencies
Other Information
- UCS State Clean Energy Policies
- UCS State Clean Energy Policy Maps and Graphs
- UCS Renewable Electricity Standards Toolkit – A comprehensive resource on state-level renewable electricity standard policy including both summary-level and in-depth information on the design and implementation of each existing state standard.
- Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency – A comprehensive collection of state, local, utility, and federal rules, regulations and incentives for renewable energy and energy efficiency
- U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), State and Local Clean Energy Programs – Information about state clean energy program activities, and Clean Energy-Environment State Partnership Program
- Interstate Renewable Energy Council – State and local government and community activities to advance renewable energy resources
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Energy Information Administration (EIA) State Energy Profiles – A short summary of key electric utility facts for each state
- U.S. DOE, In Your State – Short summaries of energy issues, as well as news items, and related links for each state
- U.S. DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), State Activities & Partnerships – A compendium of state energy statistics, EERE-sponsored projects in the states, cooperative projects and grants with states, and news about state involvement in energy projects
Renewable Energy in Your State
- U.S. DOE EIA, Renewable Energy Annual (2004 Edition) – Comprehensive report with data and trends on state level renewable energy development
- U.S. DOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Renewable Electric Plant Information System (RePIS) – Information on renewable energy plants and installed capacity
- U.S. DOE EERE Wind Power America Program, State Wind Activities – Includes validated wind maps, anemometer loan programs, small wind guides, wind working groups information, exhibits, and workshops for each state
- American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), Wind Energy Projects in the United States – State by state listing of installed and proposed wind energy facilities
- Geothermal Energy Association, Plant Database – A full listing of geothermal plants by state, including data, contact information, and a photo of each plant
- Plugging In Renewable Energy: Grading the States – UCS report assigns grades to each of the 50 states based on their existing renewable energy use and commitment to supporting new renewable energy development
Renewable Energy Resource Potential
- U.S. DOE NREL, GIS Maps of Various Renewable Energy Resources
- U.S. DOE NREL, Wind Energy Resource Atlas of the United States
- U.S. DOE EERE Wind Powering America Program, State Wind Resource Maps
- U.S. DOE NREL, U.S. Solar Radiation Resource Maps
- U.S. DOE Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Bioenergy Feedstock Information Network
- Virginia Tech, Regional Geophysics Laboratory, Geothermal Resources for the Eastern and Southeastern United States
- Oregon Institute of Technology, Geo-Heat Center
- Southern Methodist University Geothermal Laboratory, Geothermal Map of North America
- U.S. DOE Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Hydropower Resource Assessment
- Renewable Energy Atlas of the West – A comprehensive review of renewable energy resource potential in the eleven Western states
- U.S. EPA, Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database (eGRID) – A comprehensive source of data on emissions and resource mix data for virtually every power plant and company that generates electricity in the United States
- U.S. EPA, Power Profiler – Tool for generating a report about your own electricity use
- U.S. EPA, Climate Change: Where You Live – Information about climate change emissions and impacts, as well as programs and activities where you live
- U.S. EPA, State Impacts from Global Warming – State by state reports on the expected impacts of climate change
- UCS, Climate Choices – Comprehensive information about climate change impacts in the Northeastern U.S. and California
- UCS Report, Climate Impacts in the Great Lakes Region
- UCS Report, Climate Impacts in the Gulf States Region
State Government Energy Agencies
- National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO), List of State and Territory Energy Offices
- National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissions (NARUC), List of State Utility Commissions
- National Association of State Utility Advocates (NASUCA), List of Utility Consumer Advocates
