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About PRP
The Public Renewables Partnership is an initiative dedicated to enabling public organizations, co-operatives, and Tribal utility authorities to effectively integrate renewable energy into their power portfolios and business strategies. PRP's primary objective is to better inform utility decision makers about renewable energy technology options and potentials.
PRP members include municipal utilities and public power agencies, and other organizations wishing to establish renewable energy programs.
PRP's value to its members lies mostly in upstream activities, including evaluation of renewable energy resource potential, market and portfolio analysis, strategic planning and resource planning. This website is a resource for information on the use of green power through the nation and developments and events in the industry.
PRP supporters:
- Federal and state agencies
- DOE's power marketing administrations
- DOE national laboratories
- DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- American Public Power Association
- National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
- Many, many others
PRP aims to bring together critical decision making tools in a central location. Our goal is to make it less painful and more efficient for electric cooperatives, public utilities and Tribal utility authorities to quickly access important, timely and updated information about green power programs, renewable energy technologies, products and services.
PRP members believe greater use of renewable resources will:
- build more price-stability into the electricity marketplace,
- produce domestic economic development opportunities,
- create positive environmental impacts,
- support national security
- and support Public Power's commitment to voluntary emission reductions in response to the Administration's Climate Strategy.
Additionally, surveys show 80 percent of U.S. consumers support the use of renewable energy technologies. Electricity suppliers that offer green power, renewable energy technologies, products and services to their consumers ultimately are enhancing customer choice.
How do we do this?
- Collect and share information (see our annual report)
- Leverage national and regional funding to conduct research and development studies
- Aggregate purchases of renewable energy technologies, products and services
- Increase the affordability of utility scale renewable power generation
- Expand the affordability and diversity of using renewable distributed generation systems
- Move renewable energy into mainstream utility resource and strategic business planning.
- Maximize the administrative effectiveness in developing renewable energy outreach tools and replicable models
Partnership Administration: PRP is managed by several organizations, collectively working together to promote greater use of renewable resources and green power by the family of consumer owned utilitites, which includes public power, electric cooperatives and Tribal utility authorities. Management partners include the Center for Resource Solutions, a non-profit company based in San Francisco, California; Western Area Power Administration, American Public Power Association, U.S. DOE Wind Powering America Program and U.S. DOE GeoPowering the West Program.
PRP services: PRP's services range from structuring peer-matches to facilitating transmission studies. PRP is not a consulting organization. It's an organization whose members include public utilities, electric cooperatives and Tribal utility authorities; and whose supporters include state and federal agencies, national laboratories, private industry, among many others. PRP is the most effective way to bring a variety of renewable energy stakeholders together in a coordinated, organized and efficient process to identify potential collaborative research and study activities that lead to aggregate demand for utility- and distributed-scale renewable energy projects.
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