The Great Valley Center’s “Energy Primer” is an information resource intended to familiarize Valley leaders and decision makers with the basics of energy related issues and legislation.

Content has been arranged in an easy to read format for quick retrieval and referencing. Topics are organized alphabetically in five sections: the built environment, renewable energy, transportation, climate action, and energy legislation. The binder format allows for easy updating as issues evolve and new topics emerge.

This Roadmap highlights existing projects, exciting new opportunities, and provides next steps for carrying out its recommendations. We focused on four priority opportunity areas:

The Built Environment: The greatest opportunities are to: 1) encourage cities to adopt green building policies; 2) help cities make clean energy improvements to their facilities; and 3) "green" planned projects and developments.

The data presented are a snapshot of information providing tools for measuring the environmental well-being of the Valley. The report offers data, analysis, and structure which can be used as a benchmark for assessing the progress of the Valley, providing valuable comparative information at the county, subregional, and state levels.

The purpose of these guidelines is to provide potential California ethanol producers and investors with an understanding of California ethanol demand, current domestic ethanol supply, and key issues regarding potential local ethanol supply. The ethanol market in California is currently driven by a Federal mandate that an oxygenate be used to meet the Clean Air Act (CAA) (United States Environmental Protection Agency, (1990). Since the gubernatorially mandated phase-out of MTBE (Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether) as an oxygenate as of December 2003, ethanol has become the choice oxygenate.

The goal of the work was to demonstrate, through a series of workshops, how new technologies can assist the San Joaquin Valley in creating jobs, stimulating the regional economy, and improving quality of life. Areas of focus for the project included Telework, Energy-Efficient/"Smart" Homes, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)/Homeland Security.