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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Carolyn Beach [mailto:cbeach@ases.org]
<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, January 31, 2007 10:36 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Vikram
Sami<BR><B>Subject:</B> Tackling Climate Change report from the Amcerican Solar
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face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#336666>ASES Releases Landmark
Report - </FONT></STRONG></FONT><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
color=#336666 size=-1><EM>Tackling Climate Change in the U.S.: Potential
Carbon Emissions Reductions from Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy by
2030</EM></FONT>
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#336666 size=-1>The
result of more than a year of study, the report illustrates how energy
efficiency and renewable energy technologies can provide the emissions
reductions required to address global warming.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#336666 size=-1>To
develop the report, ASES recruited a volunteer team of top energy experts.
These experts produced a series of nine papers that examined how energy
efficiency and renewable energy technologies can reduce U.S. carbon
dioxide emissions—the main cause of global warming. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#336666 size=-1>ASES
collected the nine papers together and added an overview of the studies to
create the report. It covers energy efficiency in buildings,
transportation, and industry, as well as six renewable energy
technologies: concentrating solar power, photovoltaics, wind power,
biomass, biofuels, and geothermal power. The results indicate that these
technologies can displace approximately 1.2 billion tons of carbon
emissions annually by the year 2030—the magnitude of reduction that
scientists believe is necessary to prevent the most dangerous consequences
of climate change. <BR><BR>The report, edited by Chuck Kutscher,
illustrates how energy efficiency measures could keep U.S. carbon
emissions roughly constant over the next 23 years as the economy grows,
and how renewable energy technologies could make deep cuts below today’s
emissions. Wind energy provides about 35% of the renewable energy
contribution, while the rest is divided about evenly among the other
technologies. “Energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies can
begin to be deployed on a large scale today to help save us from the worst
consequences of global warming,” said Kutscher. “With continued R&D to
lower costs and a reasonable level of policy support, they have the
potential to meet most, if not all, of the carbon reductions that will be
required in the future."</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#336666 size=-1>The
report is available as a free download at <A
href="http://www.ases.org/climatechange">www.ases.org/climatechange</A>.
High-quality graphics showing the various emissions reductions and
deployment locations are also available at that site. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#336666 size=-1>You can
help by letting your friends, colleagues, co-workers, state and local
government officials and representatives, and your local newspaper know
about the report. A press release that you can forward is available at <A
href="http://www.ases.org/climatechange">www.ases.org/climatechange</A></FONT></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></P><PRE>
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