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California Power Crisis: Impacting the Green Power Market

SAN FRANCISCO, February 8, 2001: A national green power non-profit has pooled industry experts and resources to provide an accurate overview of the California energy crisis and its effect on green power choice in the state. The Center for Resources Solutions in San Francisco has put together a striking summary of facts that affected California's green power market and also has recruited leading energy authorities to document events leading to the California energy crisis.

Facts for the media can be can be found on the Green-e website:

"How We got into the Energy Crisis" a paper on the complex web of events leading to the energy crisis by William Marcus of JBS Energy, Inc. and Dr. Jan Hamrin, Executive Director of the Center for Resource Solutions can be viewed at http://www.green-e.org/pdf/crisispaper.pdf
A list of "The Top Ten Factors that Affected California's Green Power Market" can be viewed at http://www.green-e.org/pdf/topten.pdf
A "California Green Power Update" that went out to green power industry advocates can be viewed at http://www.green-e.org/pdf/update.pdf

3 Factors to remember that helped drive the crisis:

click here for the 3 factors included in this press release

Based in San Francisco's Presidio, CRS administers national and international programs that preserve and protect the environment through the design of innovative strategies and increased utilization of appropriate technologies. CRS directs the Green-e Program, a renewable energy certification program for restructured electricity markets. Dr. Jan Hamrin founded CRS and serves as the Executive Director. More information is available at www.resource-solutions.org

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