Renewable Energy Questionaire seeks to reveal financing trends.
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To help expose finance trends and provide critical marketplace feedback on importance or effectiveness of various policies and incentives, U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) seeks input from energy developers and financiers. Renewable Energy Finance Tracking Initiative (REFTI) questionnaire, pertaining to projects financed during first half of 2011, is available online through August 18 and takes ~15 min to complete.
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NREL Seeks Industry Input to Illuminate Trends in Renewable Energy Financing
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is seeking input from energy developers and financiers as part of an ongoing effort to collect and share quantitative data on renewable energy financing terms and to assess barriers to renewable energy development.
The current Renewable Energy Finance Tracking Initiative (REFTI) questionnaire - for projects financed during the first half of 2011 - is available online through Aug. 18 at www.surveymonkey.com/s/REFTI_H1_2011_Questionnaire. The questionnaire takes approximately 15 minutes to complete.
"By sharing information through this quick, confidential questionnaire, renewable energy developers help illuminate finance trends and provide critical marketplace feedback on the importance or effectiveness of various policies and incentives," said Mike Mendelsohn, NREL's project manager for REFTI.
To encourage participation in the financial tracking project, NREL has made several improvements to its REFTI questionnaire and reports, including:
Launched in December 2009, this NREL initiative uses a periodic and voluntary questionnaire of industry members to illuminate finance trends and provide critical marketplace feedback on the importance or effectiveness of various policies and incentives. To ensure confidentiality, NREL reports survey findings only in aggregated form.
NREL shares REFTI findings through free webinars and reports, which are available on the project website at http://financere.nrel.gov/finance/REFTI.
NREL is the U.S. Department of Energy's primary national laboratory for renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development. NREL is operated for DOE by the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC.
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