Press Release

For Immediate Release
12 December 2006
Contact: Craig Cox, 303-679-9331

Western Renewable Energy Project Map Highlights New Interwest Website

The Interwest Energy Alliance has launched a newly redesigned website featuring an innovative new western renewable energy project locator map showing wind, solar, geothermal and biomass energy projects in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. Interwest’s new site, at www.interwest.org, contains other information of interest to renewable energy companies and advocates in the region, and will soon provide updates on 2007 state legislation from legislatures in the West — particularly legislation that Interwest actively supports.

Interwest’s Executive Director Craig Cox noted that the website’s new project locator map is integrated with Google Maps and shows wind, solar, geothermal and biomass electricity projects throughout the region. With this innovative mapping approach, users can choose to display projects by specific energy technology. As with all Google Maps, users can zoom in on a specific area or drag the map to a specific destination, as well as choose a satellite view of the region.

Cox said that the new site’s wind and geothermal project listing is comprehensive, but that the solar power listing currently shows only certain projects sponsored by utilities in Arizona and Nevada, as well as two new larger, utility-scale projects in Colorado and Nevada. He added that as more information becomes available on the many other existing and planned solar projects throughout the region, Interwest would seek to display them on the map accurately and efficiently.

“I hope this website serves as a useful, timely and reliable resource for everyone involved in leveraging the West’s wealth of renewable energy resources,” said Cox. “The coming year will be very active in the policy arena in states throughout the West, and at the national level, and we hope our site helps provide all interested parties the accurate information they need for effective advocacy activities and sound policymaking.”

Interwest seeks comments, suggestions and questions on any aspects of its new site, which was designed by R.L. Martin & Associates.

The Interwest Energy Alliance is a trade association that represents the nation’s leading companies in the wind energy industry, bringing them together with some of the West’s leading non-governmental organizations to facilitate consensus-based approaches to new project development and transmission issues throughout the region.