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Sustainable Energy Coalition
Who We Are
The Sustainable Energy Coalition (SEC) brings together more than 60 national and state-level business, environmental, consumer, and energy policy organizations. Founded in 1992, the Coalition promotes increased federal support for ENERGY EFFICIENCY and RENEWABLE ENERGY technologies and reduced federal support for unsafe or polluting energy resources.
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Technologies for a Cleaner Tomorrow
Sustainable Energy Coalition members advocate federal energy policies that will lead to a cleaner environment, safe reliable energy technologies, and a secure, prosperous future for all Americans. Avenues for Coalition activity include policy decisions on the federal budget, electric UTILITY restructuring, pollution prevention, Climate Change, and tax policies.
Listen to Burl Haigwood, SEC Member (Clean Fuels Development Coalition)Member organizations of the Sustainable Energy Coalition do not support every item or issue adopted by the Coalition and generally focus on their issue area within the Coalition recommendations and policy positions.
Sustainable Energy Coalition includes more than 60 members:
- National Governing Board Organizations
- DC Associate Member Organizations
- Non-DC Associate Member Organizations
- Individual Member
View the complete Sustainable Energy Coalition Member Directory and Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Online Directory.
The SEC Web site is designed to highlight its members and educate key decision makers in government, the media and the financial community -- the benefits and opportunities in significantly utilizing energy efficiency and renewable energy to grow the global economy, stabilize energy prices and international tensions, lower GREENHOUSE GAS and regulated emissions, and reduce instability from conventional energy resources, technologies and infrastructure.
Introduction to SEC Factoids
In summer 2005, several of the organizations that comprise the Sustainable Energy Coalition (SEC) drafted a document entitled the "Sustainable Energy Blueprint."
The "Sustainable Energy Blueprint" proposes that the goals of the nation's energy policy should be to:
- promote energy-saving technologies in all sectors of the economy - including energy-efficient buildings, appliances, lighting, vehicles, and industrial processes as well as COGENERATION, District Energy, and FUEL CELLS;
- promote environmentally-responsible applications of the cross-section of RENEWABLE ENERGY technologies including BIOFUELS, BIOMASS, GEOTHERMAL, HYDROPOWER, OCEAN, SOLAR, WIND, and renewably-based hydrogen;
- reduce GREENHOUSE GAS emissions to a level consistent with a world-wide goal of global climate stabilization (e.g., curbing U.S. CO2 emissions by 60-80% from current levels by no later than mid-century);
- eliminate U.S. energy imports (i.e., Oil and Natural Gas - now 58% and 15% respectively), while reducing overall use of oil, Coal, and natural gas; and
- phase out the current generation of nuclear power and not construct new reactors in their place.
To demonstrate that it is technically and economically feasible to realize these goals, given the necessary political support, the Sustainable Energy Coalition is compiling a series of "factoids" that are being released on an approximately weekly basis.
Each "factoid" is a summary of a study on the potential of renewable energy and ENERGY EFFICIENCY produced by a governmental, business, academic, or non-profit organization.
Each factoid provides a summary of the key findings of the study – often derived from the study's media-release materials or executive summary. Additional information is provided on how to obtain a copy of the full study.
Neither the Sustainable Energy Coalition nor its member groups necessarily endorse the findings of specific studies. Rather, they are presented as analyses that suggest the general feasibility of realizing the above-listed five goals.
Read all Sustainable Energy Coalition Factoids.
