Windfarms offshore of New York City, wind turbines on top of the city's bridges and skyscrapers, and the generation of tidal power, solar power and geothermal energy are all in Mayor Michael Bloomberg's vision of New York's energy future.

Speaking at the first annual National Clean Energy Summit hosted by U.S. Senator Harry Reid, the Center for American Progress Action Fund, and the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, the mayor Tuesday announced New York's first steps toward developing these new sources of renewable energy.

First, the New York City Economic Development Corporation Tuesday released a Request for Expressions of Interest calling for innovative ideas to help the city develop sources of renewable energy. Responses to the RFEI are due September 19.

The summit drafted a set of findings and recommendations that Reid said he would share with the two upcoming national political conventions and also take to the Senate.

National Clean Energy Summit 2008 Findings and Recommendations:

The Federal government should:

**Provide long-term tax incentives for renewable energy production and energy efficiency, including clean renewable energy bonds. Modify other tax policies to reward clean energy investments

**Set a national renewable electricity standard for utilities to produce a significant portion of their electricity from wind, solar, and geothermal energy. This should be at least 20 percent by 2020. It would reduce consumers' energy costs, energy price volatility and greenhouse gas emissions

**Establish, enforce and update building code standards for energy efficiency in new and retrofitted buildings to save consumers money and reduce fossil fuel use. Provide incentives for efficiency related renovations Reduce building energy use by 50 percent by 2030.

**Modernize and expand the nation's electrical grid to make it smart and more secure, and capable of transferring or storing clean renewable energy in combination with electric vehicles, while providing greater access to such resources in an environmentally responsible way

**Initiate electrification of our entire transportation sector so it uses only clean domestic energy soon

**Fully fund and expand a green jobs/clean energy corps program to weatherize millions of homes, train workers for new energy technology application, build a smart grid, etc.

**Create a federal clean energy fund to invest in research, development and deployment of efficiency and renewable technologies

**Expedite identification and reservation of Federal public lands that have high potential for the environmentally responsible production of renewable electricity, and improving permitting processes for clean energy production on such lands

**Speed the transition from corn based ethanol to sustainable biofuels such as cellulosic ethanol made from wood chips, agriculture waste, and switch grass. This could include a joint US-Brazilian investment in sugar cane ethanol in the Caribbean, which would create jobs in this developing region.

The State of Nevada Should Consider Policies to:

**Require all new government buildings to be certified by the U.S. Green Building Council to LEED standards. LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.

**Convert state vehicle fleets to alternative fuels

**Create incentives for renewable energy by lowering property taxes for these facilities, and exempting them from sales tax.

**Require that homeowner associations allow solar panels and other renewable technologies.

**Eliminate barriers and regulations that discourage energy efficiency. Increase transparency of commercial building energy use for consumers.