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Freiburg, Germany

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Freiburg Train Station

Badenova Stadion

Solar addition

Fraunhofer Institute

Strategy/ Sector→↓ Renewable Energy

Green Building/Energy Efficiency

Recycling/Waste-to-Energy Transportation

Linking Strategies create connections between elements of sustainability strategies and economic or workforce development.

Transformational Strategies attempt to transform or “green” existing economic sectors or strength.

Leapfrogging Strategies attempt to build entirely new green sectors and jobs.

Sector

Strategy Renewable Energy

Green Building/Energy

Efficiency*

Recycling/Waste-to-Energy

Transportation

Linking strategies create connections between elements of sustainability strategies and economic or workforce development.

Berkeley, CABerkeley FIRST

Richmond, CASolar Richmond

Los Angeles, CAGreen Building Initiatives

Milwaukee, WIMe2,

Chicago, ILWaste to Profit Network

United KingdomNational Industrial Symbiosis Programme

Denver, COTransit-oriented development

Los Angeles, CAThe Coalition for Clean and Safe Ports

Transformational strategies attempt to transform or “green” existing economic sectors or [strengths].

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From glass to solar panels

Pittsburgh, PAGreen Building Alliance

Syracuse, NYGrowing an indoor environmental quality sector

New York CityNYC Green ManufacturingInitiative

Bronx, NYC Sustainable South Bronx

Portland, ORBuilding local streetcars

Leapfrogging strategiesattempt to build entirely new green sectors and jobs.

Austin, TXCreating a solar industry

Cleveland, OH region Creating a wind industry

Los Angeles, CARENEW LA

King County/(Seattle, WABiowaste to Biodiesel

Portland, ORA Niche Bicycle Industry

Sector



Efficiency*


Transportation





Milwaukee, WIMe2,





Transformational strategiesattempt to transform or “green” existing economic sectors or [strengths].

TOLEDO, OHIOFrom glass to solar panels












Austin and Toledo

• Political Support

• City-owned utility

• University Research

• Incubator

• Research partnerships on grid technology

• Incentives for solar production

• Economic development focused on new technologies

• University research

• Incubator

• Incentives for solar production

• Existing industry with related competencies

Austin and Toledo, cont.

• HelioVolt • First Solar

• Xunlight

• Solargystics

• >6000 employed in 15 research and manufacturing enterprises in solar industry

First Solar, Perrysville, Ohio

First Solar,Malaysia

Xunlight’s founders with their prototype product

XunlightToledo, Ohio

Evergreen Solar

WITH THE NEWS that the state’s premier solar energy company, Evergreen Solar, is facing financial struggles, many are questioning whether the state was wise to “bet’’ on solar energy by providing an unprecedented level of state loans, grants, and land deals. Indeed, the rationality of states bidding against each other to attract biotech, information tech, and now renewable energy companies by offering the biggest subsidy package is part of a decades-long debate.

A case could be made that Massachusetts is better positioned to develop a wind production industry than solar. But the bigger question is whether the United States will be a leading player in the production of renewable energy and other clean technologies -or cede that role to Germany, Japan, and increasingly China.In the absence of a coherent national renewable energy policy, states and cities have been moving forward on their own. The predominant strategy has been to require utilities to purchase a set percentage of their energy - known as a renewable portfolio standard - from renewable sources, invest in some research, offer subsidies to attract companies, and maybe provide some worker training.The payoff for any given state may be anywhere from a few hundred to a couple of thousand jobs. While we applaud each success, this approach does not add up to the United States becoming a leader in renewable energy.

Thursday, OcTOber 22, 2009

Even when states and cities do all the right things, success is not guaranteed. Consider Austin, a city that has a comprehensive strategy to develop a solar production industry in a state that has been a leader in renewable energy. All of its planning and investment has resulted in one company staying in the area, HelioVolt, a producer of thin-film solar power cells. Two other solar companies incubated in Austin moved to other states, taking advantage of attractive incentive packages. And Austin Energy’s new 30-megawatt solar energy farm will use Suntech modules made in China and assembled in the United States.

By Joan Fitzgerald

Image by: Clayton Hansen

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Source: Electronics, Design, Strategy News.

Top 10 Photovoltaic and Wind Turbine Manufacturers

Solar Wind

Company Country Of Origin

Cell Technology

Capacity 2008

(announced)

Company Country Of Origin

InstalledCapacity

2009 (in MW)

Sharp Electronics

Japan Crystalline* 870 Vestas Denmark 35,000

Q-Cells Germany Crystalline* 834 BEnercon Germany 19,000

Suntech Power Holdings Ltd.

China Crystalline* 590 Gamesa Spain 16,000

First Solar USA Thin-film 484 GE Wind Germany/US

15,000

SolarWorld Germany Crystalline 460 Siemens Denmark/German

y

8800

Sanyo Japan Crystalline 365 Suzlon India 6000

BP Solar UK Crystalline 480 Nordex Germany 5400

Kyocera Japan Crystalline 300 Acciona Spain 4300

Motech Industries Inc.

Taiwan Crystalline 330 Repower Germany 3000

Solarfun Power Holdings

China Crystalline 360 Goldwind China 2889

Total for Top 10 5073 Total for Top 10

115,389

Source: Pew Charitable Trusts Environment Group

Renewable Portfolio Standards

State renewable portfolio standard

State renewable portfolio goal

www.dsireusa.org / November 2009

Solar water heating eligible *† Extra credit for solar or customer-sited renewables

Includes non-renewable alternative resources

WA: 15% by 2020*

CA: 33% by 2020

☼ NV: 25% by 2025*

☼ AZ: 15% by 2025

☼ NM: 20% by 2020 (IOUs) 10% by 2020 (co-ops)

HI: 40% by 2030

☼ Minimum solar or customer-sited requirement

TX: 5,880 MW by 2015

UT: 20% by 2025*

☼ CO: 20% by 2020 (IOUs)10% by 2020 (co-ops & large munis)*

MT: 15% by 2015

ND: 10% by 2015

SD: 10% by 2015

IA: 105 MW

MN: 25% by 2025(Xcel: 30% by 2020)

☼ MO: 15% by 2021

WI: Varies by utility; 10% by 2015 goal

MI: 10% + 1,100 MW by 2015*

☼ OH: 25% by 2025†

ME: 30% by 2000New RE: 10% by 2017

☼ NH: 23.8% by 2025

☼ MA: 15% by 2020+ 1% annual increase(Class I Renewables)

RI: 16% by 2020

CT: 23% by 2020

☼ NY: 24% by 2013

☼ NJ: 22.5% by 2021

☼ PA: 18% by 2020†

☼ MD: 20% by 2022

☼ DE: 20% by 2019*

☼ DC: 20% by 2020

VA: 15% by 2025*

☼ NC: 12.5% by 2021 (IOUs)10% by 2018 (co-ops & munis)

VT: (1) RE meets any increase in retail sales by 2012;

(2) 20% RE & CHP by 2017

29 states & DC have an RPS

6 states have goals

KS: 20% by 2020

☼ OR: 25% by 2025 (large utilities)*5% - 10% by 2025 (smaller utilities)

☼ IL: 25% by 2025

WV: 25% by 2025*†

http://www.dsireusa.org/

Source: Pew Charitable Trusts Environment Group, 2011

Source: John Sakoda, New Enterprise Associates

Sector



Efficiency*


Transportation





Milwaukee, WIMe2,






Toledo, OHFrom glass to solar panels












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IceStone Durable Surfaces are made from 100% recycled glass and cement to create a high performance, green concrete material.

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Leadership Team: The project team includes the University of Pittsburgh’s Dr. Melissa Bilec, who is Co-Director of the Center for Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure, Assistant Director of Education andOutreach at the Mascaro Sustainability Initiative, and Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil andEnvironmental Engineering. Fellow University of Pittsburgh faculty on the project team include Dr. Amy E.Landis, Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Dr. Kim L. Needy,P.E., CPIM, Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering. The private sector partner isTegrant Corporation, represented by Robert Niklewicz, Vice President of Engineering, and Kevin Grogan, VicePresident of Marketing and Business Development.

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Home Health Care

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