Smart Power/Renewable Now

It has been a great week at Renewable Now.  Our radio shows for the next two months are booked solid with great guests from around the world (you can listen live each week at WARL 1320 and their global stream, or each week at our main site referenced below), we have covered some great stories and events, and, today, we released the news on building a new, dedicated channel to Smart Power and their CEO, Brian Keane.

Here's a link to the main story on our site, and some bio below.  Welcome Brian, Smart Power, to the network that covers the business side of green:  http://renewablenow.biz/smart-power.html

About Brian F. Keane

Brian F. Keane is President of SmartPower and author of Green Is Good: Save Money, Make Money, and Help Your Community Profit From Clean Energy (Lyons Press, 2012). He is a leading voice on clean energy, energy efficiency and the environment. As President of SmartPower, a Washington, DC-based marketing agency dedicated to promoting clean, renewable energy and energy efficiency, Keane has helped shape the energy debate in the United States and brought clean energy and energy efficiency to the American consumer.

Hailed as Mad Men for an eco-conscious generation, SmartPower’s award-winning marketing campaigns have engaged hundreds of thousands of people across the country, drawing credit for inspiring our nation’s renewed interested in renewable energy and energy efficiency. 

For their efforts, Keane and SmartPower have been recognized with numerous awards, including a 2010 Clean Air Excellence Award from the Environmental Protection Agency, recognizing SmartPower’s “America’s Greenest Campus” energy efficiency campaign. Other accolades include the coveted Green Power Pilot Award presented by the EPA and the U.S. Department of Energy; four Gold Awards from the Service Industry Advertising Awards (SIAA); and the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection’s Green Circle Award. In 2005 Keane was recognized as one of Connecticut’s “Outstanding Forty Under 40.”

PART OF BRIAN'S REPORT THIS MONTH:

Issue: 001 April, 2014

"While very little is happening on the political front to advance solar power, there’s really exciting progress happening across the country state by state.  A very recent report released by Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) in conjunction with Green Tech Media (GTM) shows that solar expanded rapidly last year to nearly 13 GW of installations in the U.S. – enough to power nearly 2.2 million homes.  That growth spurred a burst of green jobs, with 143,000 added at 6100 businesses.  As SEIA’s report pointed out, “more solar has been installed in the U.S. in the last 18 months than in the 30 previous years combined, the equivalent of taking 2.8 million cars off the road or closing down 4 coal-fired power plants.”  That’s progress everyone can celebrate.

Our own SmartPower solar campaigns are seeing the same exciting results.  We’ve been operating community-based group buying programs in cities and towns across Connecticut.  As a result, participating towns more than doubled the amount of residential solar in just 20 weeks than over the previous 7 years combined..."

See the rest at our main site.