The Energy Farms’ Energy Digest
Newsletter
By
The Energy Farms Group
April, 2006
We want to encourage the development and support of Renewable Electric sites distributed along the power grid to:
- Reduce Pollution and health costs incurred from fossil fuels
- Provide jobs
- Reduce the impact of any terrorism
- Reduce the need for military actions to guard oil supplies
- Become energy independent
- Greater availability of electric and less outages
- Lower and more stable electrical costs
- Promote it as a stable independent family small business
- Broaden the tax base in rural areas
- Help encourage research for electrical energy for the world
Contents this issue:
New
Section(s) in RED
Product
Of The Month
(In
Editorial section)
Jobs in the Energy Field
Latest News and Articles
Recent
articles – Latest articles related to our goals
Friends
(companies and groups that just joined in with us)
Energy Sites and Information
Sample
Sites for Solar, Wind, Micro-Hydro, Geothermal and Biomass
RE-Communities
and Developments
RE Pictures
– From the National Renewable Energy Lab.
Additional Permanent Sections
Politics
Outages
The Energy Farms Gear
CHALLENGES
The Manufactures/Dealers $200,000 - $500,000 Challenge
– Promote and sell your solution(s)
Financial
US
Banks – A list of US banks along with a link to The World Bank
Venture
– Venture Capital Companies
Additional Financial Planning – A liaison effort between the seekers and money
suppliers.
Master Contract
– Edison Electric Institute’s
Legislation, Government Contacts
Government
State
– We also started a new section for state information and need representatives
to send in reports.
See
States….
The
Grid – Interstate Renewable Energy Council
State Activities
– New section looking for correspondents from each state to send in latest
information.
Promote The Effort of Changing the World
Brochure - A simple
brochure you can print and distribute to support the Energy and Environmental
issues
Presentations – A page dedicated to adding
presentations and links to appropriate presentations
Alternate
Fuels Data Center – Information on
alternate fuels
Financial
Planning – Banks, Start up funding, and
venture capital companies interested in RE
Suggested Actions - Things you can do to support the project!
Awards
– We plan on sending out an
awards certificate to people/groups/organizations/companies that have
contributed to the promotion of Energy Farms or Renewable Energy. There is no timetable or limits on the
number. We are following the Dr. W. Edwards Deming concept of continuous improvements and not the Malcolm
Baldridge National Quality Award of just rewarding the
top performer. Please feel free to send in your candidates along with a brief
description as to why we should consider them.
Misc.
Shops
– Renewable Energy Sales
FOR SALE – RE products
Sponsorship
Financial
Energy Foundations – A list of Foundations interested in renewable energy.
Grant
Information – Public and Private sector grants funding sources
Conservation
Phantom Loads – Do you really
KNOW your electric device is OFF or just SLEEPING?
Education
RE
Education – Learn about electric and a possible career
Questions, Answers, Feedback and Events
Product Feedback Section – Have you used a RE product and would like to tell us your
experiences.
The
“Q” Page – The question to the readers, and from the readers (FAQs’
and Qs’ and As’)
Events / Fairs – RE happenings
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