Supporting Organizations
CleanTECH San Diego is a non-profit membership organization formed to accelerate San Diego as a world leader in the clean technology economy. We are a catalyst that serves as the hub for a diverse group of stakeholders to advance a common agenda. Our membership includes business and financial leaders, academic and research institutes, and government and non-profit organizations.
For more information, visit www.cleantechsandiego.org.
Fishermen’s Energy (sometimes referred to as “FERN” in New Jersey and “FERI” in Rhode Island) is a company founded by a core group of East Coast commercial fishermen to respond to the public’s need to develop the ocean for renewable wind energy. Wind is a clean and constantly renewable energy resource, and it is Fishermen’s Energy goal to turn the North Atlantic coastal waters into an unmatched source of clean energy.
Fishermen’s Energy and its core group of respected, well-established, commercial fishing industry founders, have researched offshore wind carefully and have chosen to view offshore wind as an opportunity for us and for our fellow citizens, rather than as a threat to our traditional fishing businesses. In this spirit, Fishermen’s Energy intends to be a proactive agent for change, and brings a unique ability to harvest the sea for energy and fish, side by side, in an environmentally responsible manner and in a manner which utilizes the decades of maritime and seagoing experience of Fishermen’s Energy’s founders and their hundreds of employees. Ownership in Fishermen’s Energy by fishing industry participants is central to the company’s plans and is being encouraged by a groundswell of local support among fishermen and fishing support businesses in many states. The company intends to enable this broad ownership through an investment offering to commercial fishing vessel owners, fishermen, and those dependent on commercial fishing from Maine to the Carolinas to enable the company to develop the ocean’s energy potential in our region - where we fish and where we live.
Fishermen’s Energy has partnered with the most dynamic, experienced professionals in the renewable energy and offshore wind business community. Recognizing that the impacts of offshore energy development will be long-term and cumulative, and that successful development will require depth of maritime and ocean experience and years of local presence, staying power and patience, this core group has concluded that if the ocean environment is to be developed as a source of electricity, local fishermen and fishing industry companies bound for life to the community and to the sea are the best source of talent and resources to accomplish this.
For more information, visit www.fishermensenergy.com/.
NorTech Energy Enterprise is leading a collaborative regional effort to drive growth across all sectors in advanced energy. By accelerating commercial activity, we are helping to develop an advanced energy cluster in Northeast Ohio, which will result in long-term, positive economic impact on the region.
For more information, visit www.nortechenergy.org/.
The Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation is the full service, official economic development organization for the state of Rhode Island. A quasi-public agency, the Corporation serves as a government and community resource to help streamline the business expansion in, and relocation to, Rhode Island. The agency assists companies with commercial real estate, business financing, workforce training and other relevant issues.
For more information, visit www.riedc.com/.
The United States Energy Association (USEA) is the U.S. Member Committee of the World Energy Council (WEC). USEA is an association of public and private energy-related organizations, corporations, and government agencies. USEA represents the broad interests of the U.S. energy sector by increasing the understanding of energy issues, both domestically and internationally.
USEA coordinates participation of the United States in the WEC by nominating representatives to WEC activities, organizes the U.S. delegation to the triennial WEC Congress, WEC Executive Assembly Meetings and Regional Energy Forums. USEA members serve on WEC technical and study committees.
In conjunction with the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Department of Energy, USEA sponsors our nation’s Energy Partnership Program.
USEA sponsors policy reports and conferences dealing with global and domestic energy issues as well as sponsors trade and educational exchange visits with other countries.
Membership in USEA is open to all organizations having an interest in the energy sector of the United States.
For more information, visit usea.org/ .
WADE works to accelerate the worldwide development of high efficiency cogeneration, onsite power and decentralized renewable energy systems that deliver substantial economic and environmental benefits. In an effort to raise the profile of cogeneration as a climate change mitigation strategy in the 1997 UNFCCC climate change negotiations the International Cogeneration Alliance was founded. In 2002 the group changed its name to WADE and broadened its scope to include all manner of DE technologies.
For more information, visit www.localpower.org/.