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Greetings!
Happy Earth Day! In this issue of our e-news, please read about the "Clean and Green Team" for the Metro Chamber's upcoming Cap-to-Cap trip, recent stimulus investment in Jadoo Power, and a profile of Sierra Energy, an innovative clean energy company in our area.
If you haven't visited the California Energy Commission website recently-- it is worth checking out now. This link connects you to an entire page dedicated to sharing information about the federal stimulus package, and opportunities to fund clean energy projects. Signing up for their list server is one of the best ways to stay updated (bottom right).
Be well,
Kristine |
UPCOMING EVENTS
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The upcoming workshops below are
being hosted by the California Energy Commission and are located at 1516
Ninth Street, First Floor, Hearing Room A in Sacramento. For more
info,visit the California Energy Commission website
Alternative & Renewable Fuel & Vehicle Program (AB 118) and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Workshop
Date: April 27, 2009
Time: 9:00 am
AB 811 and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Funding Workshop
Date: April 29, 2009
Time: 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
State Energy Program Funding Workshop: Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program Funding Allocation from the ARRA
Date: May 7, 2009
Time: 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
State Energy Program Funding Workshop: Funding Allocation From the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Date: May 7, 2009
Time: 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm
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Clean and Green Team to lobby during Metro Chamber's annual Capitol-to-Capitol trip
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The Sacramento Metro Chamber's annual Capitol-to-Capitol event in Washington D.C. starts this weekend and continues through April 29th. This event brings several hundred of the region's business, labor and government leaders together to build consensus on important regional priorities, and provides a platform for communicating these positions to our federal government leaders. This year the Clean and Green Team is lobbying on important issues that will support the region's clean energy sector and reduce green house gases in compliance with California's Global Warming Solutions Act.
The Team hopes to advance Sacramento State's effort to garner an appropriation of funds for equipping a cutting edge Smart Grid Center. The Center will play a key role in creating new energy transmission technologies, and will work to develop real-time pricing of electricity by providing an unbiased location where utilities, industry and the public sector can work together.
The Team is also seeking continued federal support for electric drive vehicles and funding for plug-in hybrid demonstration programs. Plug-in hybrids use the same technology as today's hybrid gasoline-electric vehicles, but have a significantly larger battery capacity, getting at least 30% to 50% better fuel economy.
Other position papers for the Clean and Green Team include the following topic areas, and full content is available on the Metro Chamber website:
- Biogas enhancement project
- Climate change policy for electric utilities
- Federal bond insurance corporation
- New clean renewable energy bonds
- Sacramento State Tram
- Sacramento State Student Housing PV project
- Renewable Energy Production Incentive (REPI) program
- Zero net energy retrofits of existing homes and buildings
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Local companies are starting to win support for projects from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant programs. Folsom-based fuel cell company Jadoo Power was awarded $1.8 million in stimulus dollars, along with with Acumentrics Corporation, NASCAR Media Group, Lynch Diversified Vehicles, California's Police and Fire Departments of the City of Folsom, and Airgas, Inc.
They will work to establish the environmental and cost benefits of using a 1-kW fuel cell power system to generate electricity, as opposed to traditional gas/diesel generators and lead acid battery power sources. This demonstration will provide operating data from each field unit at customer sites, as well as degradation analysis and projected system lifetime. |
Local Innovation: Sierra Energy
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Sierra Energy has developed retrofit technology to make old blast furnaces work more efficiently, and provides the option of converting those furnaces into biomass gasifiers for clean energy. Locally headquartered in Davis, Sierra Energy's technologies can create large volumes of clean energy while reviving communities and creating jobs.
To convert the existing blast furnaces into thermal gasifiers capable of large scale energy production, Sierra Energy uses FASTOX technology. With a FASTOX retrofit, blast furnaces can create iron without the use of fossil fuels and at a more efficient rate than before. The conversion also makes it possible for the furnaces to be used solely for the purpose of creating gas for energy, enabling creation of 10,000 tons of clean gas per day.
Sierra Energy believes that their conversion technology has potential to revive old iron towns because converting steel mills into clean energy producing facilities can save jobs lost from mill closures. Learn more on their website. |
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