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Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference Coming Soon
Now in its fourth year, the 2011 Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference — February 8-10 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. — is the nation’s leading forum on ideas and strategies to build a green economy that creates jobs, reduces global warming, and preserves America’s economic and environmental security. The 2011 Conference will bring together thousands of labor, environmental, business, elected, and community leaders.
This year’s Conference highlights successful state and local initiatives, emerging and growing green sectors, successful work development programs, and model partnerships with government. Together they demonstrate the breadth of the coalition working to build a green economy and to create the good jobs that come along with it.
The 2010 Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference drew 3,000 people. Keynote and plenary speakers included House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Energy Secretary Dr. Steven Chu, Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry and Governors Edward G. Rendell of Pennsylvania and Bill Ritter of Colorado. Speakers this year include Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, and White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley.
If you are interested in attending the Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference, click here.
– Rachel Ackoff, Sierra Club’s Responsible Trade Program
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Training Funds for Energy Efficiency & Green Sectors Through CleanEdison
Training Dollars Available to California Contractors for Industry Certifications
SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwire – December 2, 2010) – Helping to push the Energy Upgrade initiative for energy efficiency throughout the state, the California Clean Energy Workforce Training Program (CEWTP) awarded $368,000 to Efficiency First to help train California workers in energy efficiency and sustainable building. As a national nonprofit trade association that unites the Home Performance workforce, this funding will help employers across the state provide valuable training to their employees in these fast-growing sectors.
“Studies have shown that a shortfall will continue to exist in the number of qualified, trained workers serving the emerging green economy,” said Jared Asch, National Director for Efficiency First. “In order to meet the market demand for green technology, Efficiency First is helping our members become active participants in training their workforce by leveraging nearly $400,000 in America Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds, as well as state, local and private funding, to prepare Californians for a clean energy future.”
The Efficiency First program will off-set employer training fees by providing a reimbursement for up to 75% of total training costs. Certifications included under the Efficiency First training program are offered by nationally-recognized organizations such as the Building Performance Institute (BPI) Building Analyst / Energy Auditor training, the Residential Energy Services Network (RESNET), and the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED).
“As the Energy Upgrade program kicks in to high gear, we’ve heard from a number of contractors looking to get training through this program,” says Lauren Carson, VP of Business Development for CleanEdison. ”As a leading training firm for this program, CleanEdison is committed as an approved training provider for the reimbursement program and is offering both BPI Certification and LEED Exam preparation courses for Efficiency First program participants throughout California. CleanEdison has educated hundreds of companies and thousands of individuals in green building practices, both through workforce development programs and the largest open enrollment program in the nation.”
Application for participation in this training program is open to all members of the California Chapter of Efficiency First, and is subject to screening for compliance with the Employment Training Panel’s guidelines for eligibility.
For more information about applying to participate in the program, please visit the program information page on the Efficiency First website: http://www.efficiencyfirst.org/catraining/ or call Ryan Williams at 1-888-513-3476.
About Efficiency First
Efficiency First is a national nonprofit trade association that unites the Home Performance workforce, building product manufacturers and related businesses and organizations in the escalating fight against global warming and rising energy costs. Efficiency First represents its members in public policy discussions at the state and national levels, to promote the benefits of efficiency retrofitting and to help our industry grow to meet unprecedented demand for quality residential energy improvements. Expansion of the Home Performance industry represents a crucial path to economic growth in the face of historically high unemployment and unprecedented weakness in the construction and manufacturing sectors. Consumer demand for efficiency retrofits will create hundreds of thousands of high-paying local jobs that cannot be outsourced overseas, while stimulating a surge of manufacturing of building materials primarily made by American workers.
About CleanEdison
CleanEdison, Inc. is the nation’s leading green job training provider offering award-winning green education services to individuals, companies, federal, state and local governments. Our mission is to promote sustainability and green building practices by offering best-in-class education and expert advice through our customized consulting services and the largest open enrollment green training program in the nation. Winner of the 2009 CTN Green Excellence Seal for Green Education, CleanEdison is part of the US Green Building Council’s Education Provider Program and an approved affiliate of the Building Performance Institute (BPI). Headquartered in New York, CleanEdison offers courses in BPI Certification, Energy Auditing, LEED, Solar, Wind and Renewable Energy. To learn more about CleanEdison and to sign up for courses, please visit www.cleanedison.com.
Efficiency First Media Contact:
Jared Asch
National Director
Email Contact
415.728.9755
CleanEdison Media Contact:
Megan McInroy
Director of Government Affairs
Email Contact
646.723.4542
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The Grant Farm Secures $3M for Green Energy Projects
For Immediate Release Contact: Shawn Garvey 530.559.2791
shawn@thegrantfarm.com
$3 Million Awarded for Waste to Energy Facilities
Nevada City-based The Grant Farm secures $3 million for two energy projects that will create 525 construction jobs and 75 permanent green energy positions
Nevada City, California – The California Energy Commission approved nearly $3 million for two high profile projects represented by local Fund Development company The Grant Farm that will transform Waste-to-Energy facilities in Northern California.
The awards — $1.49 million for the Advanced Bioenergy Center Mendota, and $1.31 million for the Sacramento BioRefinery #1 – fund the pre-development and engineering costs to construct two landmark biorefineries that will utilize hundreds of tons of green waste by converting it to fuel for buses, electricity and high value compost.
Advanced Bioenergy Center Mendota
The Grant Farm managed, coordinated and wrote this successful application for $1.49 million in funds from the California Energy Commission for the Advanced Bioenergy Center Mendota (ABCM), a multi-partner collaboration that includes the Mendota Advanced Bioenergy Beet Cooperative, UC Davis, California State University, Fresno; Spectrum Energy Solutions, IR1 Group and Shell Oil. This application received the highest score of any competing application in the state of California.
When complete, the proposed $200 million ABCM facility will:
- Process nearly 1 million tons per year of locally-sourced sugar beets
- Utilize 80,000 additional tons of almond prunings and other agricultural waste that state law will prohibit from burning on June 1, 2010
- Generate 6.3 Megawatts (MW) of certified Green-e electricity;
- Produce 33.5 million gallons of advanced ethanol and 1.6 million standard cubic feet (SCF) of renewable biomethane
- Process wastewater on behalf of the City of Mendota and create a net positive of 365 acre feet of irrigation water per year
- Create up to 325 construction, engineering and design jobs; 50 BioRefinery Operations positions, 40 to 50 Feedstock Operations jobs and 160 farm labor positions in a community which currently claims the highest unemployment rate in the United States
- Generate $90 million in direct economic activity
Sacramento BioRefinery #1
The Grant Farm has managed the Public Fund Campaign for Clean World Partners’ proposed Sacramento BioRefinery #1 (SBR1) since 2009. Partners in the project, to be sited at the Sacramento Recycling & Transfer Station, include the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), UC Davis, Yolo County Transit District, CALSTART, and others. SBR1 was awarded $1.35 million from the California Energy Commission to fully fund pre-development costs.
When complete, the proposed $23 million facility will:
- Provide a reliable, locally produced supply of 71,324,285 SCF of compressed natural gas (CNG) for the Yolo County Transit District (YCTD) CNG Bus fleet—displacing 584,000 gallons of gasoline a year, or approximately 84 percent of YCTD’s annual demand
- Produce average daily outputs equaling:
- 195,409 SCF of biomethane
- 19,977 SCF of hydrogen
- 3,313 gal of concentrated liquid fertilizer
- 8,521 gal of clean water
- 15 TPD of marketable compost
- Divert 36,500 tons of organic wastes annually from area landfills
- Reduce GHG by 15,512 metric tons per year
- Create 227 full-time, direct and indirect jobs during the project performance period and 16 full-time, permanent jobs
- Demonstrate a commercialized waste-to-energy solution developed with state funding at the University of California, Davis for national and global export. Successful commercialization and licensing will prompt private, state and federal investment in the billions of dollars
The Grant Farm specializes in identifying public funding partnerships and implementing public fund campaigns for organizations seeking state and federal loans, grants, and tax credits for critical renewable energy projects throughout the United States. Principals at the firm have more than 35 years of combined experience in public funding, technical writing, strategic planning, and advocacy. Since 1995, they have helped develop more than $375 million in renewable energy, cleantech, transportation and infrastructure, and conservation projects seeking funding from a variety of public agencies—including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, California Energy Commission, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Federal Transit Administration and the California Energy Commission.
The Grant Farm is a member of Sierra Commons, an innovative business community housed at the former site of the Stonehouse Brewery in Nevada City. Sierra Commons is a project of One-Stop Business and Career Center and the Private Industry Council of Butte County.
The Grant Farm recently leveraged its success at Sierra Commons, expanding to a second office in downtown Sacramento, California.
Proposition 23, Anti-Environment ‘California Jobs Initiative’, Is Funded By Big Polluters In Texas And The Midwest
First Posted: 08-19-10 01:17 PM | Updated: 08-19-10 01:18 PM
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Proposition 23, the so-called “California Jobs Initiative” threatening to suspend some of California’s unprecedented clean air and renewable energy legislation, is raking in millions of dollars from Texas oil companies and special interest groups in the Midwest that stand to profit from rolled-back environmental regulation.
The initiative, which is to be voted on in California’s upcoming November elections, aims to suspend clean air and energy laws under the “Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006″ until California’s unemployment rate falls below 5.5 percent for a full year. But this might take a while, considering that the state’s recession-induced unemployment rate currently hovers around 12.3 percent.
While the proposition claims to be about creating jobs in California, its biggest financial backers are Texas oil companies, including Valero and Tesoro Corporations, who have donated $4 million and $525,000, respectively, to the initiative.
Valero spokesperson Bill Day told HuffPost that the company supports Prop. 23 because it’s a “common-sense” approach to solving California’s economic problems.
“As you know, California’s economy is in trouble, and this would be the worst time to implement a measure like AB 32 that would cause steep price increases for consumers and threaten jobs,” Day said. “We employ 1,600 people in the state with an annual payroll of $122 million, and this year Valero will pay more than $71 million in California property and sales taxes, so Valero has an interest in California’s continued economic strength.”
Valero’s 2009 annual report to investors presents a more straightforward account of its financial interests in halting greenhouse gas laws, concluding that any clean air regulations would have an “adverse effect” on its “financial position.”
“Any new federal restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions… could result in material increased compliance costs, additional operating restrictions for our business, and an increase in the cost of the products we produce, which could have a material adverse effect on our financial position, results of operations, and liquidity,” the company wrote.
Steve Maviglio, a spokesman for the “No on Prop. 23″ campaign, called the proposition “a full-out assault” on California’s environmental initiatives.
“Prop 23 is a full-out assault on California’s clean air and clean energy laws being financed by two Texas oil companies that would rather spend millions trying to kill our law than clean up their mess,” he said. “The low-carbon fuel standard would certainly be shelved indefinitely.”
Other controversial supporters of Prop. 23 include the Adam Smith Foundation, a right-wing nonprofit in Missouri that has recently been accused of abusing its tax status to funnel money into the initiative without having to disclose its donors. The foundation donated a conspicuous $498,000 to the initiative, which California’s Capitol Weekly pointed out is quite a lot, considering the group raised a total of only $5,000 in 2009.
The group did not respond to calls for comment, but questioned by the Los Angeles Times recently, foundation president John Elliot refused to identify the group’s donors by name, citing the anonymity granted to donors of tax-exempt foundations under section 501(c) 4 of federal tax law. He did, however, mention the effect that environmental regulations have on Missouri’s lucrative coal industry. “Anything to do with energy affects Missouri, No. 1 because we rely heavily on coal,” Elliot said.
The foundation has aroused the suspicion of California State Senate President Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) and Assembly Speaker John Perez (D-Los Angeles), who wrote a letterto U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on August 3 requesting an investigation into the foundation’s nonprofit status. Federal law states that a nonprofit may contribute to political campaigns as long as its main purpose is the “promotion of social welfare” — but the Adam Smith Foundation’s only purpose this year seems to be funneling money into Prop. 23.
“This much is clear: the Foundation went from raising only $5,000 in 2009, ending that year with only $109, to contributing $498,000 to Proposition 23 in the first part of 2010,” Perez and Steinberg wrote in the letter. “Serious issues are implicated by the use of an out-of-state organization that may be abusing its tax status to avoid having to disclose the name of its donors to a campaign that will have a profound impact on the future of California.”
Anita Mangels, a spokeswoman for the Yes on 23 campaign, responded to Steinberg and Perez’s allegations by calling their letter a “political vendetta” and pointing out that other big foundations such as the National Resources Defense Council and the Green Tech Action Fund have donated to the “No on Proposition 23″ campaign. But LA Times reporter Michael Hiltzik points out that the foundations opposing Prop. 23 are much more open about their donors and activities than Adam Smith has been:
“Green Tech, which has contributed $500,000 to defeat Proposition 23, is affiliated with the San Francisco-based Energy Foundation, which is backed by foundations established by the late William Hewlett and David Packard of Hewlett-Packard fame, and several other charitable funds identified on its website.
The NRDC may not disclose the names of all its contributors, but it’s tolerably open about its activities. Its spending of about $1 million to fight 23 (based on the latest campaign filings) comes from an annual budget of about $80 million. It boasts a 40-year record of legal action on environmental issues and has offices in both San Francisco and Los Angeles. It’s not a front for special interests, but an interest group in its own right.”
Steinberg said he and Perez haven’t heard back from Holder yet regarding the investigation, but he hopes at least to arouse the suspicions of California voters.
“We wanted to get this on record and make it clear that while this is first and foremost a California issue, there are a lot of out-of-state interests that are trying to impede our progress,” he told HuffPost. “The public ought to be rightly suspicious any time a public foundation hides the name of its donors, a foundation that ends up contributing hundreds of thousands of dollars to help defeat a landmark environmental achievement in California. The very fact that a foundation is fronting for someone should tell the voters in California a lot.”
SNEW Program Manager
Title: Sierra Nevada Energy Watch Program Manager
Location: Truckee or Sonora, California
Start Date: September 2010
Type: Full Time
Open until: Filled
Salary: $4,250 – $5,000/mo. (commensurate with experience) plus benefit package
Summary of Position: SBC is looking for an entrepreneurial and enthusiastic individual to join our energy team. The right candidate will lead one of the most effective energy efficiency programs in California. This program aims to achieve multiple benefits of energy efficiency in our Sierra communities: reducing energy costs for local businesses, creating quality jobs for local electricians and suppliers, sourcing high quality equipment, working with public and private sectors, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, building community sustainability, and advancing climate action planning.
The SNEW Program Manager assumes responsibility day-to-day operational management of activities of the Sierra Nevada Energy Watch, a joint energy efficiency program between Pacific Gas and Electric and Sierra Business Council. The program will run from 2010-2012 in the fourteen counties of Lassen, Plumas, Yuba, Sutter, Butte, Sierra, Nevada, Placer, El Dorado, Amador, Calaveras, Alpine, Tuolumne, and Mariposa. The program’s focus is maximize environmental and social co-benefits while reducing energy usage for municipal and commercial facilities through comprehensive energy audits and the installation of energy efficiency measures.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities
1. MANAGEMENT: Supervise a team of 5-7 program staff, including sub-contractors. Coordinate communications, fundraising, billing, and administration with SBC staff. Coordinate program management with program partners. Develop relationships and contracts and coordinate activities with electrical contractors for energy efficiency installations. Troubleshoot and resolve any problems that arise in the management and implementation of program.
2. PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION: Adaptively manage technical oversight systems, project financing systems, audit protocols, contracting standards, quality assurance and control systems, a monitoring and verification system, and evaluation and reporting protocols. Assist with drafting proposals and preparing marketing tools. Develop and maintain relationships with clients, PG&E staff, and project partners. Develop and maintain detailed understanding of contract content, requirements, payment structure, and conditions.
3. PLANNING: Review program plans throughout the course of the fiscal year to provide for continuous program improvement. Work with other SBC program managers to find synergies with other existing and future SBC programs.
4. FUNDING: Assists with preparation of grant proposals, contracts, and negotiations as opportunities arise.
5. PROGRAM MONITORING: Provides continual monitoring of program progress to ensure that program elements are working to achieve goals and objectives, and that the program maintains SBC’s standards and funding agencies’ accountability standards. Analyze and track data using MS Word, Excel, SugarCRM and other software programs. Maintain online customized database (SugarCRM) of activities, customer contacts, and program results.
6. FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION: Assist with the administration of project budgets, including control and monitoring of project related expenditures. Prepare monthly/quarterly/annual reports. Assist in preparation of interim and final financial reports. Assists with the preparation of monthly invoices.
7. SPECIAL PROJECTS: Delivers training, facilitates meetings, and represents SBC at external events.
Required Qualifications
- At least five years of project management experience, preferably energy project management.
- Masters degree in Business or Public Administration, Engineering, Energy Management, Environmental Sciences, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Ability to manage complex programs at a high level and motivate and manage personnel.
- Knowledge of energy-related technologies and the ability to evaluate and implement energy efficiency measures and perform energy audits.
- Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously within stringent time constraints.
- Ability to effectively manage sub-contractors to ensure deliverables are received within contracted time, quality, quantity and cost requirements.
- Ability to monitor, evaluate, and assure compliance with program goals, policies and procedures.
- Ability to exercise discretion and independent judgment.
- Ability to provide day-to-day program oversight and coordination between program staff.
- Ability to maintain an excellent working relationship with co-workers, stakeholders and clients.
- Possession of excellent communication, management, and personal skills.
- Ability to learn, interpret, and apply policies, procedures, and regulations; and to provide program-based guidance and interpretation for staff and the public.
- Ability to plan, schedule, budget and allocate program resources. Ability to prepare program budgets to meet regulatory requirements. Ability to assist with administration of project budgets, including control and monitoring of project related expenditures.
- Skill in developing contingency plans to address changing program needs.
- Computer literacy and high level of technical skill, including familiarity with project management software, databases, and other computer tools. Must have superior abilities with MS Office.
- Ability to prepare (or assist with the preparation of) weekly, monthly, annual and end-of-project reports as required by SBC, funding agencies and other interested parties; and ability to ensure that all reports are accurate, comprehensive, timely, well documented, and maintain the credibility of the program.
- Must be an advocate of socially responsible societal values and their pursuit and maintain a continuing awareness of sustainability issues within the Sierra Region.
- Possession of a properly registered and insured personal vehicle, and a valid California Driver’s License.
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of California energy policy and CPUC energy efficiency programs.
- Knowledge of SBC Programs.
- Prior experience managing staff sub-contractors.
- Prior experience working with small and medium-size businesses and municipalities
- Experience working with organizations involved with projects and programs in the areas of social, environmental and economic development, especially in an entrepreneurial context.
Physical Requirements: Requires sitting at a computer for up to 8 hrs/day. Requires frequent travel. Ability to lift 30 pounds.
This is a senior-level staff position, reporting to the Vice President/Chief Operating Officer.
Please send resume and cover letter to: atoso@sbcouncil.org or
Attn: Anna Toso
Sierra Business Council PO Box 2428 Truckee, CA 96160 ** No Phone Calls Please **
The Grant Farm connects Green Energy Professionals with Government Funding
Posted by robert | Monday, 21 Jun 2010 | No Comments »from: http://sierracommons.org/2010/uncategorized/1207#more-1207
 Energy Commission Monies Fund Innovative Retrofit of Utility Vehicles Nevada City-based
The Grant Farm connects Green Energy Professionals with Government Funding
Nevada City, California – Californians may all breathe a bit easier as a result of a recent grant developed by Nevada City-based The Grant Farm for Terex Utilities.
This week, the California Energy Commission approved nearly $500,000 in funds for the Terex Utilities Hybrid Hybrid Pilot project, which will retrofit 12 medium and heavy duty utility vehicles with new zero emissions technology. The grant matches an additional $2.4 million in private funds and in-kind contributions from PG&E and Terex.
Currently, most of the nation’s 2 million utility vehicles, tow trucks, dump trucks and fire trucks have to keep their engines running in order to power their aerial booms, worksight lighting, water and gas pumps and heating and cooling systems. For utility service vehicles, this can mean long stretches of 4 to 6 hours of an active engine, wasting gas, affecting air quality, and reducing engine life.
The Terex HyPower™ Hybrid utilizes stored energy from the system’s rechargeable batteries to provide power —virtually eliminating the need for chassis engine idling during those operations. The most immediate benefits of the HyPower™ Hybrid system are dramatically reduced levels of fuel consumption – with savings between 600 and 1,000 gallons per year per vehicle — lowered carbon dioxide emissions, and reduction of worksite noise pollution.
Longer term benefits of this technology include the creation of well-paying temporary and full-time manufacturing and service jobs. To promote and support these positions, Terex has included the creation of a Sacramento Area Workforce Training Center to suppor the HyPower™ Hybrid technology, and has also developed an implementation plan for a future multi-state network of vehicle technology centers.
The Grant Farm – which develops public fund campaigns for renewable energy and cleantech businesses throughout the United States – managed the grant development and submission process for Terex Utilities. The company has developed more than $350 million in renewable energy and cleantech grant submissions and recently secured more than $5 in federal monies for the Illinois Department of Transportation to replace an aging fleet of buses with compressed natural gas vehicles and another $5 million to retrofit 31,000 homes in Anaheim, California with Smart Grid technology.
“We founded The Grant Farm to connect renewable energy and transportation professionals with the massive investments being made in new technology by state and federal government,” said Shawn Garvey. “There is a transformation afoot in both energy and public finance — and our experience is in developing and professionalizing successful organizations that can attract significant public and private funds for innovative projects.”
The Grant Farm specializes in identifying public funding partnerships and implementing public fund campaigns for organizations seeking state and federal loans, grants, and tax credits for critical renewable energy projects throughout the United States. Principals at the firm have more than 35 years of combined experience in public funding, technical writing, strategic planning, and advocacy. Since 1995, they have helped develop more than $375 million in renewable energy, cleantech, transportation and infrastructure, and conservation projects seeking funding from a variety of public agencies—including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, California Energy Commission, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Federal Transit Administration and the California Energy Commission.
The Grant Farm is a member of Sierra Commons, an innovative business community housed at the former site of the Stonehouse Brewery in Nevada City. Sierra Commons is a project of One-Stop Business and Career Center and the Private Industry Council of Butte County.
The Grant Farm recently leveraged its success at Sierra Commons, expanding to a second office in downtown Sacramento, California.
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Sacramento Statewide Leader in Green Job Growth
Sacramento led the state in green job growth in 2008, with an increase in green jobs of 87% between 1995 and 2008, reports Many Shades of Green: Diversity and Distribution of California’s Green Jobs. This report was released by nonpartisan Next 10 and Collaborative Economics, and provides the most comprehensive green jobs accounting to date, systematically tracking the most recent available data on green companies, job type, location and growth across every sector and region of California.
There are other positive indicators in the Sacramento region that we are on our way to becoming the clean tech capital of the state. In its annual CleanStart Progress report, SARTA identified over $130 million in clean tech grants that were awarded in 2009 to organizations in the region. In 2010, we’ve already seen $905 thousand awarded to Sacramento State University for the development of a new training and workforce development program to enhance the region’s growing smart grid system.
SARTA’s CleanStart program identified 98 companies in the region engaged in the clean tech sector for 2009; twenty of these companies were new to the list. The clean-tech companies in the region include three publically traded companies: Solar Power Inc. (SOPW.OB), Octus Energy (OCTI.OB) and Pacific Ethanol (PEIX). Solar Power, Inc. one of the biggest clean tech success stories in the region, is making a splash with its 3.6 MW solar installation at Aerojet, soon to be upgraded to 6 MW. That installation will be the largest single industrial solar site in the country. The company recently announced a move to the growing clean tech park at McClellan, with an intention to add over 100 jobs there.
“Solar Power is joining a half dozen others in clean tech at McClellan Park,” said Gary Simon, Chairman of CleanStart. “All of them will be showcased at a networking mixer we are hosting at the Lions Gate Garden Pavilion at McClellan Park from 5 to 8 pm on Tuesday April 13, open to the public*. The entire growing clean tech cluster is one of the brightest spots in the local economy.”
Details for registering to attend Tuesday’s PowerSurge networking mixer as well as downloads of the CleanStart 2010 Progress report and the complete list of companies in Sacramento’s Clean Tech Cluster are available at www.cleanstart.org.
*PowerSurge is open the public but includes a general admission fee of $30; a reduced rate of $15 is available for SARTA members, full-time students and facutly members.
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