LISTSERV: Cal-IRES News

Since our first Cal-IRES Forum held on May 12, 2010, we wanted to share recent developments relevant to topics presented that day, specifically:

• In early August 2010 the California Energy Commission submitted a response to the USDOE Request for Information on demonstration projects for the DOE Offshore Wind Program. Both Cal-IRES and CWEC contributed to this effort, which is discussed in the Cal-IRES Introduction: Cal-IRES Introduction; DOE Offshore Wind Program RFI Response
  
  
• DOE Announces $30 Million for Energy-Efficient Housing Partnerships including BIRA team lead, ConSol
  EERE, July 20, 2010. Rob Hammon of ConSol led the BIRA team, and Cal-IRES submitted a letter of commitment for the proposal.
  
  
• On the RESCO front, we launched our Cal-IRES blog on August 3 on the topic “The Reason for RESCO.” Our intention is to selectively highlight solid information or results in our focus areas of RESCO, RESB, and USRE, and our thoughts on its significance.

We were saddened to learn in late June of the loss of Ray Dracker, long-term colleague, who spoke on behalf of Solar Millennium at our May Forum. For those who knew him or met him at that event, we have posted A Special Note about Ray.

We appreciate your interest and future contributions.