AWEA Call-In Conference March 17th - Federal Policies Needed to Encourage Investment in Green Power Superhighway

Robert ,

 

We hope you are able to join by phone on Tuesday, March 17, from
10:20-11:20 am EST. Details follow below.

 

Best.,

Laura

 

Laura Stevens

The Rosen Group

Washington, DC 



 

 

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:                  Contact:  

March 11, 2009                                      Laura Stevens, (202)
862-4372, lauras@rosengrouppr.com 

                                                            Julie
Clendenin, (202) 384-3090, jclendenin@awea.org


 

 

NATIONAL LEADERS CONVENE IN KANSAS 

FOR AWEA TRANSMISSION WORKSHOP

 

Call-In News Conference Will Offer Insight on Federal Policies to
Encourage Investment in Green Power Superhighway, Renewable Energy
Development 

 

 

WHAT:  News Conference, March 17, 10:20-11:20 am EST; 9:20-10:20 am CST

 

WHERE:  Sheraton Overland Park, Overland Park, KS

Call in information: (866) 412-1090, CONFERENCE ID # 898-960-07

 

WHO:  Robert Gramlich, Policy Director, AWEA

            Donald Furman, Senior VP, Business, Iberdrola Renewables,
and President-elect, AWEA

 

Transmission is the largest single barrier to significant wind energy
expansion and the achievement of a national renewable electricity
standard (RES).   As Congress debates whether to enact a national RES,
upgrading the nation's outdated transmission system is emerging as
another key component of our energy future.   

 

Gramlich and Furman will explain why the U.S. needs a high-voltage,
interstate green power superhighway to deliver clean, renewable
electricity to the consumers who need it.  A successful RES will require
this critical infrastructure upgrade, which will also make more
efficient use of our existing transmission capacity, reduce the logjam
in interconnection queues, and expand transmission capacity.  

 

A national, high-capacity transmission network, combined with a national
RES could bring tremendous economic benefits to Kansas, in the form of
jobs, increased manufacturing investment, and clean, affordable wind
energy as a new export product for the state.

 

To view AWEA's white paper on transmission, Green Power Superhighways:
Building a Path to America's Clean Energy Future, visit 
http://www.awea.org/GreenPowerSuperhighways.pdf.  For more about AWEA's
Transmission Workshop, visit http://www.awea.org/events/transmission09/.


            

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 About the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA):

AWEA is the national trade association of America's wind industry, with
more than 1,900 member companies, including global leaders in wind power
and energy development, wind turbine manufacturing, component and
service suppliers, and the world's largest wind power trade show. AWEA
is the voice of wind energy in the U.S., promoting renewable energy to
power a cleaner, stronger America.  More information on wind energy is
available at the AWEA Web site:  www.awea.org <http://www.awea.org/> .