Press Releases – United States Renewable Energy Association

National Rifle Association Loss, USREA Gain

National Rifle Association Loss, USREA Gain

NRA Loss Is U.S. Renewable Energy Association Gain FORT GRATIOT, Mich. April 2, 2018 - United States Renewable Energy Association, LLC (USREA) announced today its campaign to fill [...]

Ten Years of USREA

Ten Years of USREA

Ten years ago, we began with a mission. "Change Your Energy... Change The World"™. It's hard to imagine how fast time flies. Since the "official" launch of the United States [...]

Black Friday Deals

Black Friday Deals

Join the U.S. Renewable Energy Association today and we’ll donate 1/3 of NEW Membership dollars to the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund. Help Others... Help Yourself. The need to help [...]

Invenergy – Sale of Corriegarth Wind

Invenergy – Sale of Corriegarth Wind

Invenergy Announces Sale of Corriegarth Wind Energy Center to Greencoat UK Wind PLC Invenergy, North America’s largest, privately-held renewable energy company, today announced the sale of its Corriegarth Wind [...]

USREA Nominated Best Christmas Card Ad

USREA Nominated Best Christmas Card Ad

Nominated for Best Christmas Card Ad. Please pass it along to your social media friends. We only exist with your enthusiastic support. @usrea #usrea Save

2017 Membership Guide Now Available

2017 Membership Guide Now Available

The USREA Membership Guide Affiliate Marketing Guides are now available. Find out how the US Renewable Energy Association can make a difference in promoting renewable energy. Download the Guide [...]

Wake Wind Energy Sale To Southern Power

Wake Wind Energy Sale To Southern Power

In a press release today, Invenergy LLC (“Invenergy”) announced the sale of a controlling interest in its 257 MW Wake Wind Energy Center to Southern Company subsidiary Southern Power. [...]

EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook

EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook

EIA Policy assumptions tend to be especially complicated. In the United States, policies at the federal, state, and local levels can all affect energy supply, demand, and prices. Read [...]

Solaroo Energy Joins USREA

Solaroo Energy Joins USREA

The US Renewable Energy Association is proud to acknowledge our newest member, Solaroo Energy. Solaroo Energy is a solar energy equipment supplier based in Salt Lake City, Utah, and [...]

CrowdFunding For Renewables

CrowdFunding For Renewables

The challenge of Idea Finance is often compounded by lack of business resources and organization for new projects to get off the ground. With the affiliation of USREA, we are now the dedicated choice for renewable energy project crowd-funding.

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Renewable Energy Independence Day™

Thank you for Supporting Renewable Energy Independence Day

Renewable Energy Independence Day™ is an initiative of the US Renewable Energy Association (USREA.org). The Nationwide Petition Drive asks Congress for a declaration of July 3rd as a date where national efforts toward achieving renewable energy use of (50.4%), as compared to non-renewable energy resources is acknowledged as a goal. This initiative supports the idea that before the U.S. can truly have Independence Day on July 4th, the U.S. must achieve Renewable Energy Independence.

The current national percentage of Renewable Energy Electricity use in 2019 (Approx 17%), represents a current Renewable Energy Day of March 2nd, (if a one year supply of renewable energy electric were used exclusively beginning January 1st, it would last until March 2nd). The goal of the United States Renewable Energy Association, along with supporting companies and like minded individuals, is to have a goal declaring July 3rd as the nationally recognized tipping point goal in clean energy production. It is structured somewhat like Tax Freedom Day.

The petition is available at usrea.org and is supported by multiple National Alternative Energy companies, associations and individuals. The goal is to have 200K signatures available before July in a national social media campaign delivered to the U.S. Congress.

United States
In the United States, Renewable Energy Day for 2020 is March 2nd for a total average effective use rate of 17% of the nation's energy use based on published data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. (In 2015, the energy use was February 18th and 13% )

Renewable Energy Day is the first day of the year in which a nation as a whole has theoretically switched from Renewable Energy use, from all sources, and moved to the balance of yearly energy production from non-renewable sources such as coal, petroleum, natural gas, nuclear, etc.

Purpose
According to Gerald B. Zack, President/CEO, USREA, “The purpose of Renewable Energy Independence Day is to provide US citizens a metric with which to estimate progress in the use and deployment of Renewable Energy Technologies. The premise is that by comparing the relative energy use in a date reference, progress toward the tipping point of July 3rd can more easily be assessed.“

The petition language will be sent to the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate in the following form:

Dear Speaker Pelosi, Leader McConnell, Leader McCarthy, Leader Schumer:

On behalf of a bipartisan constituency of renewable energy advocates from across the USA, we are writing to urge you to support our initiative for a National Declaration of Renewable Energy Independence Day on July 3rd. With this declaration, July 3rd will represent the yearly tipping point of more than 50% renewable energy use in the U.S. in a manner similar to tax freedom day. July 3rd is 50.4% into the calendar year, and as such can become an ambitious but achievable goal.

It is our position that energy independence is critical for our national security, future job growth, and national sustainability. July 3rd marks a clearly definable target that is inclusive of the entire clean technology sector. March 2nd is representative of 17% of the calendar year, or the amount of electric power from renewable energy in the USA in 2019. The Congressional Declaration will provide a metric that provides flexibility throughout the industry to find the best overall solutions to meet our increasing energy demands with clean alternatives in mind.

We also believe it is symbolically important to recognize all the public policy benefits of renewable energy, including a diversified energy portfolio, public health benefits, domestically-sourced energy, and others.

We appreciate your consideration and look forward to working with you on this important matter.
Sincerely,

United States Renewable Energy Association ( usrea.org )

**your signature**