Impact

As a network, RE-AMP has seen much success throughout the five working groups - Clean Energy, Coal, Energy Efficiency, Global Warming Solutions, and Transportation. In 2009, RE-AMP working group members:

• Put an end to two new coal plant proposals – Big Stone II, a 580-MW plant proposed for South Dakota, and the AMP Ohio, 980-MW plant proposed for Meigs County, Ohio.
• Initiated strategic coordinated outreach to agricultural, rural and justice groups, as well as national global warming campaign efforts.
• Broadened the civic debate around building the transmission we need to meet our renewable energy goals, laying the groundwork to move specific policies forward in 2010.
• Have established energy efficiency resource standards in IA, IL, MI, MN, and OH.
• Successfully advocated to update state building codes in Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. 
• Successfully advocated for utility decoupling pilots in Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin and for authorization for these programs in Ohio. 
• Advanced policies to reduce the need for car travel, including vastly higher federal support for passenger rail, new governance for transit in Wisconsin, a complete streets law in Wisconsin, school-siting reform in Minnesota, and a regional goal of reducing vehicle-miles traveled.