PJM's website has lots of interesting presentations for TSO, generator and distribution trainings.

http://www.pjm.com/training/training-material.aspx

"ARPA-E's first solicitation resulted in $151 million dollars of funding for 37 ambitious energy research projects in 17 states. As depicted in the charts below, ARPA-E’s portfolio now includes researchers from across industry and academia; including significant small business and national laboratory participation."
These 37 projects are distributed as follows : (According to categories)


More on funded projects at : http://arpa-e.energy.gov/FundedProjects.aspx

Congressional Budget Office has cost estimates on Energy and Climate Change Acts.
Follow this link for the pages : http://www.cbo.gov/publications/collections/collections.cfm?collect=9

"The Economic Report of the President is an annual report written by the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. An important vehicle for presenting the Administration’s domestic and international economic policies, it provides an overview of the nation's economic progress with text and extensive data appendices."
I advise you to read
Chapter 9: Transforming the Energy Sector and Addressing Climate Change
From the link

From : http://investigativereportingworkshop.org/investigations/nuclear-energy-lobbying-push/story/nuclear-energy-working-hard-win-support/

According to report by Investigative Reporting Workshop:
"The Workshop was the first to report last October that more than 80 percent of the first $1 billion in grants to wind energy companies went to foreign firms. Since then, the administration has stopped making announcements of new grants to wind, solar and geothermal companies, but has handed out another $1 billion, bringing the total given out to $2.1 billion and the total that went to companies based overseas to more than 79 percent."

http://investigativereportingworkshop.org/investigations/wind-energy-funds-going-overseas/story/renewable-energy-money-still-going-abroad/

An interesting piece to read.
"For one, promised energy savings might not materialize ... As the Alliance to Save Energy points out, states cannot even agree on how much energy is saved from a single compact fluorescent light bulb http://ase.org/content/article/detail/5976."

"The nation’s utilities increased their spending on energy efficiency by 43% in 2009, according to the Consortium for Energy Efficiency. In all, utilities spent $4.4 billion for electric energy efficiency and $930 million for natural gas programs. In addition, CEE found that 46 states offered energy efficiency programs last year, up from 37 states in 2008. http://www.cee1.org/files/2009CEEAnnualReport.pdf."

By Elisa Wood
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/blog/post/2010/02/how-risky-are-energy-efficiency-investments