The Interwest Energy Alliance is a trade association that brings the nation's renewable energy industry together with the West's advocacy community.  This consensus-based, collaborative approach to market development has proven to be successful since our inception in 2002.  Together, our members support state-level public policies that harness the West's abundant –and inexhaustible– renewable energy and energy efficiency resources.  Currently, our primary states of focus are Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.

If you would like more information on renewable energy and how the West can realize tremendous economic and environmental benefits from renewable energy technologies, please review the information in this website, or contact the Interwest Energy Alliance for additional materials.

States in the Interwest Energy Alliance Region Lead the Nation in Population Growth

–From U.S. Census Bureau press release of 27 December 2007

The Intermountain West is the "New American Heartland"

“Rapid change is enveloping the American West. The southern Intermountain West—consisting of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah—is experiencing some of the highest population growth rates and economic and demographic transition of any place in the country. The region is growing up, flexing its muscles, and distancing itself from California…"

"...the southern Intermountain West may soon earn itself the title of New American Heartland as its economy, people, and politics become more central to the nation.”

“...transmission grid capacity and expansion and the move to renewables loom large as huge issues [in the megapolitan West].”

“...by 2040, five largely contiguous urban spaces of more than one million residents each may emerge in the Intermountain West. These include:

• Sun Corridor: metropolitan Phoenix, Tucson, and Prescott plus smaller urban areas in Cochise and Santa Cruz counties
• Front Range: Colorado’s I-25 corridor linking up metropolitan Boulder, Colorado Springs, Denver, Fort Collins, and Greeley
• Wasatch Front: Utah’s I-15 corridor linking up metropolitan Logan, Ogden, Provo, and Salt Lake City plus smaller urban areas in Box Elder and Wasatch counties
• Greater Las Vegas: metropolitan Las Vegas plus smaller and increasingly connected urban areas in Nye County, NV and Mohave County, AZ
• Northern New Mexico: metropolitan Albuquerque and Santa Fe plus smaller connected urban areas in Los Alamos and Rio Arriba counties"

—From Brookings Institution report, “Mountain Megas: America’s Newest Metropolitan Places
and a Federal Partnership to Help Them Prosper,” 20 July 2008

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