As of July 2006 the Subcommittee is busy assisting with technical guidance and funding or funds identification for:

• the “top 3” unfunded energy efficiency projects as identified by State Energy Offices in the 10 Blue Skyways States
  
  
• a consortium intending to import windpower into a large metropolitan area
  
  
• conferences to provide technical assistance to farmers, ranchers and small businesses to secure funding for renewable energy projects
  
  
• four different methane capture and reuse projects
  
  
• two potential “green truck stop” facilities with truck-stop electrification

• a study to identify real-world, cost-effective applications of small-scale (1-25 Kw) hydrogen fuel cells
  
  
• LED retrofits
  
  
• development of State renewable resources maps
  
  
• cooperative public-private financing to reduce the costs to States, Locals, and Tribes of implementing energy efficiency and renewable energy projects
  
  
• Energy Star benchmarking of government buildings