Energy Evolutions

Energy investments surge

This article is located at the Financial Standard site. I found it encouraging. There’s plenty of depressing energy-related reading material on hand lately. But it’s pleasing to know about the increase in investments.

Something thought-provoking as well: The article brought up two sides of the energy situation – that there is a need to create more energy as well as the need to be using less energy. Energy efficient products and solutions are on the side of requiring less, while realizing the potential of renewable energy is on the side of harnessing more. This all relates to that other article which came out recently and delved into the need for a smarter power grid. That falls into energy efficiency on a larger scale.

I’m saying it’s really interesting to see in action the sort of sibling relationship energy efficiency and renewable energy sources have. As well as to see how an understanding of this relationship is being worked into the minds of everyone who happens to read such news. It goes along with that May 2007 publication by the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy: The Twin Pillars of Sustainable Energy: Synergies between Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Technology and Policy.

This ripple in ideas is exciting. As it all becomes more and more a basic part of public knowledge, we all benefit as a community.

There’s an opinion article which was published yesterday in the Start Telegram, written by Kateri Callahan of the Alliance to Save Energy which delivers a bit of a happy note as well: Decreasing vehicle miles traveled a sign of the times.

She brings up the changes many Americans are making today as a response to gas prices . . . But also brings up a few alterations made in people’s lifestyles which wouldn’t immediately revert back were gas prices to decrease. And if that weren’t enough info for a great article, she brings up specific trends and steps which Congress and the Bush administration could do well to get behind.

If you’d like to know more about the Alliance to Save Energy, check out their site here.