Nebraskans for Solar’s March Speaker:
OPPD Alternative Energy Solutions Manager Kirk Estee
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March 11, 2020 - 7 to 8:30 pm
UNO Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center
Combined Rooms 230 & 231
6400 University Drive S (64th & Dodge)
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Kirk Estee: "The adoption rate of customers installing generation at their homes or businesses has significantly increased in OPPD’s service territory and throughout our country with expectations of this trend continuing.
In order to remain a trusted energy partner for our customers, OPPD started an initiative to improve the process and experience for customers connecting their own generation to the grid. This not only allows for a simple and streamlined process for applicants, but it also improves the safety for OPPD personnel in the field.
The result of this project includes a new online application process, enhanced content on OPPD webpages, and tools to assist customers in making educated decisions when it comes to customer-owned generation including a solar calculator."
A Q&A will follow the presentation. Refreshments provided. Reserved parking is available for Nebraskans for Solar guests in the lots in front of the Community Engagement Center, near the Durham Bell Tower. Enter at the kiosk. Please join us and bring a friend!
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Conservation Nebraska Event
March 13, 2020 - 2 to 4 pm
RR 434, Lexington
Free and open to the public.
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Conservation Nebraska Event
March 21, 2020 - 2 to 4 pm
Community Center
803 O Street, Loup City
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Citizens’ Climate Lobby Event
March 28, 2020 - 9 am to 5 pm
Creighton University Harper Center
Room 3023
602 N. 20th Street, Omaha
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Rural Energy for America Program
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The Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) provides guaranteed loan financing and grant funding to agricultural producers and rural small businesses for renewable energy systems or to make energy efficiency improvements.
Click the following links to learn more:
Additional Recommended Reading
USDA investments in rural Nebraska include more than $1.1 million in 37 energy efficiency, renewable energy, and energy development assistance projects through the Rural Energy for America Program.
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Grassroots Rising: A Call to Action on Climate, Farming,
Food, and a Green New Deal
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Grassroots Rising
offers a blueprint for building a grassroots Regeneration Movement based on consumer activism, farmer innovation, political change, and regenerative finance, embodied most recently by the proposed Green New Deal in the US.
Using regenerative agriculture practices that restore our agricultural and grazing lands, we can sequester massive amounts of carbon in the soil. Coupled with an aggressive transition toward renewables, Cummins argues that we have the power to not only mitigate and slow down climate change, but actually reverse global warming. - Chelsea Green Publishing
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More News, Opinion & Resources
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- First electric buses arrive in Lincoln, 1011 NOW
- Sharing Email from Allied Organization Nebraska Interfaith Power & Light: “Positive Steps on Climate Action”
- Report: Utilities could help connect low-income customers with solar, Energy News Network
- Commentary: With battery technology ready, regulatory framework must catch up, Energy News Network
- New report provides roadmap to achieve carbon-free transportation, Environment America News Release
- NPPD cutting ribbon on new community solar facility, NPPD News Release
- Structure rebuild completed in time for potential flooding, The Wire
- With FERC tariff filing, Southwest Power Pool moves closer to Western imbalance market launch, Utility Dive
- The Solar+ Decade Will Usher in Widespread Clean Energy and Massive Economic Growth, by Abigail Ross Hopper, SEIA President & CEO, SEIA News Release
- 4 ways to scale regenerative ag, GreenBiz
- Commentary: For retired wind turbines, we can find alternatives to landfills, Energy News Network
- All Hell Breaking Loose Examines Climate Change From the Perspective of the U.S. Military
- Jeff Bezos commits $10B to climate. How should he spend it?, written by Catherine Morehouse, Utility Dive
- Call for Nebraska climate change plan advances to full legislative debate, Lincoln Journal Star
- LB283: Provide for a climate change study
- Planning commission hears presentations on solar, downtown projects, Norfolk Daily News
- La Vista to add two electric vehicle charge stations, Omaha World-Herald
- Electric Vehicle Charging Rebate Recipients: Funding for the EV charge stations comes from the Volkswagen settlement funds, administered by the Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy.
- Honoring the Contributions of Black Americans in the Solar Industry, by Abigail Ross Hopper, President and CEO, Solar Energy Industries Association
- Voluntary emissions limit focuses on the future, The Wire, OPPD Blog
- NPPD process ensures customer safety, grid reliability before starting a renewable energy project, NPPD News Release
- MidAmerican Energy: Keeping the power on, The Messenger
- Why Traditional Wind Markets Are Flipping to Solar and Vice Versa, Greentech Media
- Inside Clean Energy: The Case for Optimism, Inside Climate News
- How community solar supports rural communities and farmers, SEIA Blog
- SEIA Paper: How Community Solar Supports American Farmers
- Conditional Use Permit Approved For Pierce County Solar Farm, News Channel Nebraska
- Clay County Supervisors ask planning commission to look at solar regulations, Hastings Tribune
- Step up for Earth Day 2020, by John Elkington, GreenBiz
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Thank you for all you are doing to advance renewable energy in our state!
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