An Energy Efficiency Plan for all of New Orleans

Its been a few days since we posted.  A lot has happened.  We defeated our Mouse Invaders, Aditi's parents and my brother experienced Zydeco dancing, and we all watched the New Orleans Fireworks display on the Fourth of July.  The display is apparently rated one of the top five in the country.  There were two barges synchronized on the river.  I was impressed.

Another big even of the last week was the deadline for Entergy New Orleans to submit its plan for a city wide energy efficiency program.  Tomorrow is the first public meeting for comment on the plan.  I expect it should be filled with some characters, so I will update tomorrow.  For now, I wanted to comment on the time frame New Orleans is meeting in creating the program.  After debating what Energy Efficiency should like during the years since Katrina, since this winter the program has been developing at lightening speed.  It does appear the stimulus money available through the American Reconstruction and Recovery Act was the impetus the city needed to get the program started.  Its hard to quantify an impact like that, but in New Orleans at least, the ARRA will have long term effects on both the efficiency of the city and local construction training programs.  That is exciting to see.