This past year we were fortunate enough – thanks to the generosity of our donors and supporters – to double our staff. We are now positioned to cast a broader net and meet our constituents where they are at, enabling them to drive market growth with less need for public policy.

In 2011, we increased our communications efforts, providing us with more avenues to tell the success stories of our members, our partners and our state. We have expanded our policy and regulatory team – a move that gave us the bandwidth we have needed for so long to better engage with our elected officials and other key stakeholders to develop the laws and policies needed to ensure an affordable, secure and prosperous energy future for our state.

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As a result of NCSEA’s collaborative work in FY2008-09, North Carolina catapulted forward as the Southeast’s leader in sustainable energy policy, regulation and development. Building upon the NC General Assembly’s historic passage of the first Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard (REPS) law in the Southeast in 2007, state and local leaders continue to work with NCSEA to enact additional policies and regulations to grow North Carolina’s developing green energy economy, create jobs in communities across our state, and increase the use and development of renewable energy technologies and energy efficiency solutions.

This year’s Annual Report provides a summary “lay of the land,” followed by a more in-depth review of the most recent fiscal year’s accomplishments and a preview of what NCSEA must secure funding for and achieve in Fiscal Year 2008-2009 to keep North Carolina moving forward.