Energy
Activities at CEEP
Solar
Cities | JISEEF
| Rural Development
|Rural Energy
for China |
RE Policy Analysis
| Local RE Planning
|Governor's
Energy Task Force
Sustainable
Energy Strategies for Rural Development
 Through
support from the Blue Moon Fund and the National Renewable
Energy Laboratory (NREL - the premier research institution
on renewable energy technologies in the U.S.), CEEP students
and faculty have had the special opportunity to work for
10 years on the challenges and possibilities of sustainable
energy strategies for rural communities (who represent the
majority of the human population). Economic, environmental
and social analyses of off-grid solar and small-wind systems
have been conducted and married with GIS software to represent
the potential of a renewables-based approach to sustaining
rural livelihoods. Focused on the provinces of Inner Mongolia,
Qinghai and Xinjiang in Western China, this work has revealed
the synergistic relationships between livelihoods-focused
economic development and renewable energy.
Solar
Cities | JISEEF
| Rural Development
|Rural Energy
for China |
RE Policy Analysis
| Local RE Planning
|Governor's
Energy Task Force |
