American Council on Renewable Energy

American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE)
Nonprofit 501(c)3
Founded 2001
Headquarters Washington, D.C., United States
Key people
Dan Reicher, Interim President & CEO, Chair, Board of Directors,
Website www.acore.org

The American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE) is a member-based, non-profit organization, founded in 2001 to bring together leading proponents and innovators from all facets of the renewable energy sector for the purpose of moving renewable energy into the mainstream of America's economy.

Established as a 501(c)(3) non-profit, ACORE does not lobby at the federal or state level. Instead, ACORE’s focus is to disseminate factual information about current renewable energy policy, market trends, and the numerous benefits of renewable energy and energy efficiency, without bias for specific technologies, to its members and the general public.[1] In addition, ACORE convenes forums throughout the year on various topics in renewable energy to bring together leaders from its own membership base and from the wider network of professionals involved in the sector to collaborate on solutions to the industry’s challenges.

As of January 2013, ACORE has over 400 member organizations from across the wide range of interests in the community, including renewable energy industries, associations, utilities, end users, professional service firms, financial institutions and government agencies.[2] In 2011, retired Vice Admiral Dennis V. McGinn was named President and CEO of ACORE. Under McGinn’s leadership, ACORE’s mission was updated to reflect the successes of the industry during ACORE’s first decade. The new mission statement became:

Building a secure and prosperous America with clean, renewable energy.[3]

In July, 2013, McGinn was nominated by President Obama to serve as the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Energy, Installations & Environment).[4] ACORE's Board of Directors tapped Board Member Michael Brower to fill in as interim President and CEO.[5] In January, 2014, the Board voted for Brower to serve as the organization's full-time President and CEO.[6] Mr. Brower retired in December, 2014 [7] and Dan Reicher, Chairman of the Board of Directors, is serving as interim President & CEO while the Board of Directors conducts an executive search process.

Primary Activities

Categorized broadly, ACORE’s work covers two main functions:

  1. Convening forums and hosting other events to promote collaboration on renewable energy issues, and
  2. Acting as an educational platform for the sector, providing both original content and news and reports from outside sources.

Forums and Events

ACORE organizes four major events each year, as well as an ongoing teleconference series. These include:

In 2008, ACORE hosted the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference WIREC with the U.S. Department of State. WIREC was the largest business-to-business and business-to-government conference and exhibition ever held on all-renewable energy in the U.S. It was global in scope, hosting exhibitors, speakers and delegates from 126 countries.[12]

Educational Platform

ACORE produces its own educational content in the form of market reviews, white papers, contributions to its EnergyFactCheck website and more, while also serving its audience with aggregated external media from the renewable energy space. The following list expands on several of ACORE's educational projects.

Organization

In 2012, ACORE created a new organizational structure for their educational programming and events schedule. Three focal initiatives were established to orient the organizations agenda toward primary targets in National Defense and Security, Transportation, and Power Generation and Infrastructure. These initiatives bring together sector expertise from ACORE’s membership and larger network to increase communication between key stakeholders in the three areas and to pursue important policy goals.

Three Focal Initiatives

National Defense - In partnership with the DoD, ACORE has launched a distinctive multi‐part initiative to examine the strategies and the technological and financial opportunities and challenges related to the expanded use of renewable energy in support of national defense. The initiative highlights innovative ways the purchasing power of DoD and the ingenuity of private sector industries and financiers can be used to lower costs and support the military's mission.[23]

Transportation - The Initiative's primary objective is to provide a forum for discussion of the vision and strategy for tomorrow's renewable transportation sector, encompassing all technologies and principal constituencies: vehicle and equipment manufacturers, energy providers, technology developers, component suppliers, government agencies, cities and ports and end users. The Initiative is structured around several forums throughout the year that will bring together the major players in the industry to discuss specific developments in the field and ultimately will result in an overarching deliverable that will guide the Initiative into the coming year.[24]

Power Generation and Infrastructure - This multi-part Initiative brings together leaders from the utility, business and investment, regulatory, public and non-profit sectors to explore the regulatory framework, the changing nature of customer relations, emerging financing structures, the advent of new technologies, and what this all means for business models for renewable energy electricity in the 21st century. The collaboration will: (1) examine the challenges, opportunities and appropriate strategies related to the expanded use and effective integration of renewable energy in the power generation sector; and (2) explore 21st century business models that will allow for this renewable energy scale up.[25]

See also

References

  1. "About ACORE". Acore.org. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
  2. ACORE Member Directory Archived December 4, 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "ACORE Mission". Acore.org. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
  4. "Obama picks green advocate as Navy energy chief". TheHill. 2013-07-09. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
  5. "Moniz doesn’t take position on nuke waste bill – Shaheen-Portman vote likely not until September - POLITICO Morning Energy". Politico.Com. 2013-08-06. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
  6. "ACORE Names Michael R. Brower Permanent CEO, President". SolarIndustryMag.com. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
  7. "Brower Retirement Statement". Acore.org. Retrieved 2015-06-09.
  8. "acorepolicyforum.com". acorepolicyforum.com. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
  9. "reffwallstreet.com". Reffwallstreet.com. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
  10. "reffwest.com". reffwest.com. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
  11. "renewableenergyinfo.org". renewableenergyinfo.org. 2014-03-19. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
  12. WIREC 2008 Description Archived July 13, 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  13. "energyfactcheck.org". energyfactcheck.org. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
  14. "EDTA contributes electric drive facts and statistics to discussion on clean, renewable and efficient energy". Multiview.com. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
  15. Zachary Shahan (2012-07-27). "Energy Fact Check". CleanTechnica. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
  16. "About EnergyFactCheck". Energyfactcheck.org. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
  17. Pete Danko. Clean Energy Fact Checking Website Launches EarthTechling, June 20, 2012.
  18. SolSystems. "Comprehensive ACORE Report on Renewable Energy in the 50 States," September 20, 2010.
  19. Advanced Energy Economy Ohio. "Voters in Swing States Support Advanced Energy: AEE Ohio and ACORE", Nov 9, 2012.
  20. North American Windpower Staff. "Renewable Energy Was Critical In Swing-State Voters' Choice For President, Poll Finds", Nov 13, 2012.
  21. "US-China Market Review" April 2013.
  22. Commodities Now. "ACORE Report on Chinese and US Renewable Energy Markets" September, 2011.
  23. "ACORE National Defense and Security". Acore.org. 2012-09-13. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
  24. "ACORE Transportation". Acore.org. 2012-09-13. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
  25. "ACORE Power Generation & Infrastructure". Acore.org. 2012-09-13. Retrieved 2014-03-26.

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