SIES is developing a distributed energy framework through the region. To reach this purpose engineering and financial solutions are designed involving the local stakholders.
The main goals are:
- Make renewable energy technology profitable, by setting up new ways to manage the power distribution, enhancing the technology research and development and cutting down costs,
- Improve the presence of companies working on renewable energy technology, in order to better exploit the local resources and to establish in Sardinia an Energy Industry,
- Give help to the investors in the domains of public fund raising, national and european policies on renewable energy, technical assistance, business consulting in general.
While much attention has rightly been given to the expiration of the Section 1603 cash grant program at the end of 2011, there are other tax incentives for renewable energy that are also set to expire in the upcoming years. The decisions as to whether to renew these incentives will have a major impact on the future of renewable energy in the U.S. as these existing and new programs have been instrumental in sustaining investor and lender interest in the renewable energy... 
Ahead of the GeoPower Indonesia & Philippines conference in Jakarta, I caught up with Edward McCartin, Senior Development Advisor at Alterra Power, a speaker at the June meeting that will host the key stakeholders in the Asian geothermal industry.
Alterra Power Corp is a leading renewable energy developer, whose portfolio includes two geotherm