At this core energy technology incubator, energy policy is created as renewable energy technologies and science move swiftly from white boards and white papers to testing, refinement and implementation.
The Vision
Mendocino Energy is located on the Mendocino coast, three plus hours north of San Francisco/Silicon Valley. On the waterfront of Fort Bragg, utilizing a portion of the now-defunct Georgia-Pacific Mill Site to innovate in best practices, cost-efficient, safe renewable and sustainable energy development – wind, wave, solar, bioremediation, green-ag/algae, smart grid and grid technologies, et al.
The process is collaborative in creating, identifying and engineering optimum, commercial-scale, sustainable, renewable energy solutions with acumen.
Start-ups, utility companies, universities (e.g. Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford), EPRI, the federal government (FERC, DOE, DOI) and the world’s greatest minds gathering at this fast-tracked, unique coming-together of a green work force and the U.S. government, creating responsible, safe renewable energy technologies to quickly identify best commercialization candidates and build-outs.
The campus is quickly constructed on healthy areas of the Mill Site as in the past, this waterfront, 400+ acre industry created contaminated areas where mushroom bioremediation is underway.
Determining best sitings for projects in solar thermal, wind turbines and mills, algae farming, bioremediation; taking the important first steps towards establishing U.S. leadership in renewable energy and the global green economy.
Thank you for linking to my web site. It made me look at yours and IO like what I see- am curious about Mendocino Energy and whether OWECO Ocean Wave Energy Company might somehow participate. Sincerely, Foerd Ames- owner, OWECO
sounds like a great idea. do you have a list of supporters and participants?
Great blog! Sounds like a really worthy project, I’ll definitely be keep checking in here! Especially as a fellow Award recipient. ;-)
Hi Sven,
Pleased to meet you, fellow GBA-award winner.
You may also wish to watch as MendoCoastCurrent is reborn into Renewable Current News.
I’ll be watching your blog (A World of Words). At first glance it looks like we share a healthy perspective in stewardship of our earth. ;-)
Cheers,
L.
Thanks Laurel, I look forward to seeing the new site. Meantime, I added the Mendo Coast Current link to my blogroll.
Keep up the great work!
Sven
Good article. I’m starting a series on the subject and wanted some more info. What do you think about the Noyo Breakwater project that was approved in the 90’s but got written out of the Federal consolidated Omnibus budget of 1996. The Army Corps of Engineers still have scale models of the proposed project.
Terry, Are those scale models in Sausalito? Your comment got me going on this so…there’s a load of information on the Noyo Breakwater and much more. Thanks for the head’s up.
Good article. I’m starting a series on the subject and wanted some more info. What do you think about the Noyo Breakwater project that was approved in the 90′s but got written out of the Federal consolidated Omnibus budget of 1996. The Army Corps of Engineers still have scale models of the proposed project.
+1