Location: New Mexico
Website: www.cite-city.com
Pegasus Global Holdings, LLC, a private international technology development firm, is creating CITE to be the largest scale testing and evaluation center in the world.
CITE will represent a 20th century American city with a population of approximately 35,000 people and be built on roughly 15 square miles. CITE’s test city will be unpopulated. This unique feature will allow for a true laboratory without the complication and safety issues associated with residents.
CITE will be a catalyst for the acceleration of research into applied, market-ready products by providing “end to end” testing and evaluation of emerging technologies and innovations from the world’s public laboratories, universities and the private sector.
These innovations, if brought forward to the point of manufacturing, are essential for the United States to regain manufacturing superiority and to train and put a highly experienced and well educated workforce back to work – while at the same time helping to change the environment for the better through commercialization of advanced innovations in energy, transportation, infrastructure, healthcare and the environment.
The planned initial core user application areas envisioned to be tested and evaluated within CITE include, but are not limited to:
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
Green Energy: Alternative Energy Power Generation (e.g. Geothermal, Solar)
Smart Grid Technologies
Telecommunications
Resource Development (e.g. Desalinization)
Security
As a privately-owned, privately-operated test and evaluation center, CITE is open and accessible to a wide array of public and private customer segments – domestic and international. The structure and policies in place at CITE are specifically designed to remove legal, cultural and budgetary impediments as are currently prevalent in the process of moving beyond basic research and development activities.
At its core, CITE is about the establishment of developmental partnerships, bringing researchers from federal, university, commercial, international and other sources together to collaborate, forge relationships, and channel funded research and development into new products and partnerships.
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Saturday, March 14, 2015
Monday, June 17, 2013
Georgetown Climate Center
Location: Nationwide
Website: www.georgetownclimate.org
The nonpartisan Georgetown Climate Center seeks to advance effective climate, energy, and transportation policies in the United States—policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help communities adapt to climate change.
The Center performs a vital role in the development of policy by:
- Analyzing legislative and regulatory developments and assisting with program design,
- Sharing best practices and success stories with state and federal policymakers, and
- Serving as a resource to all states in addressing climate change and promoting a clean energy economy.
Based at Georgetown Law, the Center works extensively with government officials, academics, and an array of stakeholders to strengthen state and federal climate partnerships.
The Center analyzes the provisions of federal policy relevant to states and territories, and encourages policymakers to learn from and adopt innovative policies emerging from the states.
To that end, the organization plays a key role in a number of state-based initiatives. For example, the Georgetown Climate Center serves as the convener of the Transportation and Climate Initiative — a collaboration that seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector across 11 states and the District of Columbia.
The Center is a facilitator of the “Three Regions” process, which brings together representatives of the nation’s three regional climate and energy programs to discuss common issues and explore opportunities for joint action.
The Georgetown Climate Center also coordinates the Governors’ Energy and Climate Coalition, a group of governors and U.S. territorial leaders who support federal action on climate policy and strong state roles.
Led by Executive Director Vicki Arroyo and Faculty Director Professor Peter Byrne of Georgetown Law, the Center also seeks to ensure that national climate and energy policy is informed by lessons from existing state efforts and that national policies maintain an ongoing role for state innovation and implementation.
Website: www.georgetownclimate.org
The nonpartisan Georgetown Climate Center seeks to advance effective climate, energy, and transportation policies in the United States—policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help communities adapt to climate change.
The Center performs a vital role in the development of policy by:
- Analyzing legislative and regulatory developments and assisting with program design,
- Sharing best practices and success stories with state and federal policymakers, and
- Serving as a resource to all states in addressing climate change and promoting a clean energy economy.
Based at Georgetown Law, the Center works extensively with government officials, academics, and an array of stakeholders to strengthen state and federal climate partnerships.
The Center analyzes the provisions of federal policy relevant to states and territories, and encourages policymakers to learn from and adopt innovative policies emerging from the states.
To that end, the organization plays a key role in a number of state-based initiatives. For example, the Georgetown Climate Center serves as the convener of the Transportation and Climate Initiative — a collaboration that seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector across 11 states and the District of Columbia.
The Center is a facilitator of the “Three Regions” process, which brings together representatives of the nation’s three regional climate and energy programs to discuss common issues and explore opportunities for joint action.
The Georgetown Climate Center also coordinates the Governors’ Energy and Climate Coalition, a group of governors and U.S. territorial leaders who support federal action on climate policy and strong state roles.
Led by Executive Director Vicki Arroyo and Faculty Director Professor Peter Byrne of Georgetown Law, the Center also seeks to ensure that national climate and energy policy is informed by lessons from existing state efforts and that national policies maintain an ongoing role for state innovation and implementation.
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Center for Neighborhood Technology
Location: Nationwide
Website: www.cnt.org
Founded in 1978, the Center for Neighborhood Technology has been a leader in promoting more livable and sustainable urban communities. In fact, our work focused on sustainable development before the term became as popular as it is today. As a creative think-and-do-tank, we research, invent, and test urban strategies that use resources more efficiently and more equitably.
Over the years, CNT’s work, especially in the areas of climate, energy, water, transportation and community development, has paid off by fueling a generation of community development and learning institutions, earning CNT a reputation as an economic innovator and leader in the field of creative sustainable development.
CNT is an “innovations center for urban sustainability.” We approach our work by participating in three primary activities:
Researching urban problems to build knowledge through tools and activities that change how residents, policymakers, and market actors respond to issues such as efficient use of resources, strategies for reducing pollution, or ways to improve public transportation. Our studies are readily available for use by residents, policymakers, students, and other researchers.
Building coalitions to advocate for public policies that can help address urban sustainability issues.
Designing, developing, and operating economic development demonstration projects to address urban sustainability in innovative ways.
CNT launched two nonprofits that advance our mission:
- CNT Energy, an organization that develops and implements initiatives to help consumers and communities control energy costs and reduce energy use.
- IGOSM CarSharing, a membership-based car sharing organization that provides hourly rental of a fleet of cars located across Chicago and its surrounding suburbs.
Our Urban Practice Consulting offers a unique menu of tools and strategies which can be applied individually or collectively to urban development and redevelopment
CNT has ongoing long-term relationships with a number of organizations with complementary missions.
With the Center for Transit-Oriented Development (CTOD), CNT works on a number of studies for communities seeking to maximize transit resources through more targeted development near transit, especially development that can serve lower- and moderate-income households.
Studies were undertaken for the Bay Area, Seattle, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Denver, New Mexico and Australia.
With Reconnecting America, CNT continues to promote a national policy for intercity transportation. The partners used the findings of its late ’03 report, “Missed Connections: Financing Intermodal Transportation” to educate policy-makers about what resources could be used to connect the separately functioning transportation modes into a more integrated and efficient transportation system.
As a co-founder and leader in the Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP) coalition, CNT spent much of 2004 working to educate constituents about the federal “highway bill,” up for reauthorization after lapsing in 2003.
Specifically, the coalition worked to preserve basic federal protections like that which ensures that citizen participation in transportation plans “be early and continuing.” The coalition also helped build public understanding about the importance of efficient, intermodal transportation to reducing the cost of living.
Our LEED-Platinum (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) building demonstrates how we work—from innovation to implementation—within a framework that values places.
Website: www.cnt.org
Founded in 1978, the Center for Neighborhood Technology has been a leader in promoting more livable and sustainable urban communities. In fact, our work focused on sustainable development before the term became as popular as it is today. As a creative think-and-do-tank, we research, invent, and test urban strategies that use resources more efficiently and more equitably.
Over the years, CNT’s work, especially in the areas of climate, energy, water, transportation and community development, has paid off by fueling a generation of community development and learning institutions, earning CNT a reputation as an economic innovator and leader in the field of creative sustainable development.
CNT is an “innovations center for urban sustainability.” We approach our work by participating in three primary activities:
Researching urban problems to build knowledge through tools and activities that change how residents, policymakers, and market actors respond to issues such as efficient use of resources, strategies for reducing pollution, or ways to improve public transportation. Our studies are readily available for use by residents, policymakers, students, and other researchers.
Building coalitions to advocate for public policies that can help address urban sustainability issues.
Designing, developing, and operating economic development demonstration projects to address urban sustainability in innovative ways.
CNT launched two nonprofits that advance our mission:
- CNT Energy, an organization that develops and implements initiatives to help consumers and communities control energy costs and reduce energy use.
- IGOSM CarSharing, a membership-based car sharing organization that provides hourly rental of a fleet of cars located across Chicago and its surrounding suburbs.
Our Urban Practice Consulting offers a unique menu of tools and strategies which can be applied individually or collectively to urban development and redevelopment
CNT has ongoing long-term relationships with a number of organizations with complementary missions.
With the Center for Transit-Oriented Development (CTOD), CNT works on a number of studies for communities seeking to maximize transit resources through more targeted development near transit, especially development that can serve lower- and moderate-income households.
Studies were undertaken for the Bay Area, Seattle, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Denver, New Mexico and Australia.
With Reconnecting America, CNT continues to promote a national policy for intercity transportation. The partners used the findings of its late ’03 report, “Missed Connections: Financing Intermodal Transportation” to educate policy-makers about what resources could be used to connect the separately functioning transportation modes into a more integrated and efficient transportation system.
As a co-founder and leader in the Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP) coalition, CNT spent much of 2004 working to educate constituents about the federal “highway bill,” up for reauthorization after lapsing in 2003.
Specifically, the coalition worked to preserve basic federal protections like that which ensures that citizen participation in transportation plans “be early and continuing.” The coalition also helped build public understanding about the importance of efficient, intermodal transportation to reducing the cost of living.
Our LEED-Platinum (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) building demonstrates how we work—from innovation to implementation—within a framework that values places.
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Energy Efficient Buildings Hub
Location: Philadelphia , PA
Website: www.eebhub.org
The Energy Efficient Buildings Hub (EEB Hub) was established in Philadelphia by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as an Energy-Regional Innovation Cluster (E-RIC) on February 1, 2011 with a unique dual mission of improving energy efficiency in buildings—literally re-energizing them for the future—and promoting regional economic growth and job creation from our headquarters in Philadelphia's Navy Yard, one of the nation's largest and most dynamic redevelopment opportunities.
Federal funding for the EEB Hub’s first five years of operation comes primarily from the Department of Energy (DOE), with additional contributions from the Economic Development Administration (EDA), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the Small Business Administration (SBA). The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is providing separate funding for EEB Hub facilities, while EEB Hub participants will also make cost-sharing contributions.
Our energy efficiency goal is ambitious: to reduce energy use in the regional-Philadelphia commercial buildings sector by 20 percent by 2020.
To reach this goal, our efforts are concentrated on accelerating the adoption of Advanced Energy Retrofits of average size commercial buildings. An Advanced Energy Retrofit is one that makes use of new but proven technologies, systems and processes to achieve significant energy and, ultimately, economic savings.
We must therefore design, demonstrate, and deploy customized retrofits that are both technically sound and financially feasible in the Greater Philadelphia region. That is why a major initial activity of the EEB Hub is the Advanced Energy Retrofit of Building 661 at the Navy Yard, a former U.S. Navy recreation building.
This project will demonstrate that innovative energy saving technologies will:
- Achieve high performance outcomes,
- Save considerable money over time,
- Create value for building owners, and
- Enhance the comfort and productivity of occupants.
The EEB Hub will achieve its goal through informed people, validated information, and proven technologies.
Our objectives are:
- To develop and deploy to the building industry a state-of-the-art modeling platform to integrate design, construction, commissioning, and operation
- To demonstrate the market viability of energy saving technologies for whole building system solutions at the Navy Yard and elsewhere in the region
- To identify policies that accelerate market adoption of energy efficient retrofits of commercial buildings and support policy makers in the development of such policies in the Greater Philadelphia region
- To inform, train, and educate people about proven energy saving strategies and technologies whether they design, own, construct, maintain, or occupy buildings
- To help launch business ventures that will exploit market opportunities for providing whole building energy saving solutions
- The EEB Hub will also help foster job creation in the commercial building energy retrofit sector in the Greater Philadelphia region. In addition, our work will further develop the Navy Yard as a global center for energy efficient building research, development, demonstration, and deployment.
As the EEB Hub’s consortium of leading scientists and engineers collaborate to overcome critical energy challenges, we will identify new retrofit service and technology opportunities and support emerging business models for new ventures that leverage these opportunities for providing new and comprehensive retrofit solutions.
As initially configured, the EEB Hub included 22 performer organizations made up of research universities, DOE laboratories, industrial firms, economic development agencies, and community and technical colleges. Rather than a closed consortium, however, we are a dynamic association of members unified by the vision and mission of enabling the nation to reach the national goal of cutting energy usage in commercial buildings by “20 percent by 2020."
The EEB Hub is responsive and performance-driven, so we have the flexibility to modify and refine objectives, and reset milestones to provide the nation’s building sector with the best set of deliverables possible.
The EEB Hub is engaging key stakeholders in the retrofit decision process to serve as an informational, motivational, and practical resource for the various constituencies that will help carry our vision forward.
We facilitate education, cross-pollination and collaboration among:
- Commercial building owners, operators and occupants,
- Architects, engineers, construction firms and building system suppliers,
- Policy-makers and economic development organizations, and
- Workforce development organizations and educational institutions.
Energy independence is a goal widely supported for both economic and security reasons. Just imagine: the commercial building sector uses approximately 20 quadrillion BTUs annually. (1 quadrillion BTUs is equal to the annual energy output of forty 1,000 megawatt power plants!) A 20 percent reduction can dramatically and quickly help move the nation closer to its energy independence goal. The strategies and programs of the EEB Hub can have a transformative effect on how energy in this country is used, allowing energy management to become an operating reality for the commercial real estate sector. We are part of the solution. And we invite you to take part with us.
Website: www.eebhub.org
The Energy Efficient Buildings Hub (EEB Hub) was established in Philadelphia by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as an Energy-Regional Innovation Cluster (E-RIC) on February 1, 2011 with a unique dual mission of improving energy efficiency in buildings—literally re-energizing them for the future—and promoting regional economic growth and job creation from our headquarters in Philadelphia's Navy Yard, one of the nation's largest and most dynamic redevelopment opportunities.
Federal funding for the EEB Hub’s first five years of operation comes primarily from the Department of Energy (DOE), with additional contributions from the Economic Development Administration (EDA), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the Small Business Administration (SBA). The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is providing separate funding for EEB Hub facilities, while EEB Hub participants will also make cost-sharing contributions.
Our energy efficiency goal is ambitious: to reduce energy use in the regional-Philadelphia commercial buildings sector by 20 percent by 2020.
To reach this goal, our efforts are concentrated on accelerating the adoption of Advanced Energy Retrofits of average size commercial buildings. An Advanced Energy Retrofit is one that makes use of new but proven technologies, systems and processes to achieve significant energy and, ultimately, economic savings.
We must therefore design, demonstrate, and deploy customized retrofits that are both technically sound and financially feasible in the Greater Philadelphia region. That is why a major initial activity of the EEB Hub is the Advanced Energy Retrofit of Building 661 at the Navy Yard, a former U.S. Navy recreation building.
This project will demonstrate that innovative energy saving technologies will:
- Achieve high performance outcomes,
- Save considerable money over time,
- Create value for building owners, and
- Enhance the comfort and productivity of occupants.
The EEB Hub will achieve its goal through informed people, validated information, and proven technologies.
Our objectives are:
- To develop and deploy to the building industry a state-of-the-art modeling platform to integrate design, construction, commissioning, and operation
- To demonstrate the market viability of energy saving technologies for whole building system solutions at the Navy Yard and elsewhere in the region
- To identify policies that accelerate market adoption of energy efficient retrofits of commercial buildings and support policy makers in the development of such policies in the Greater Philadelphia region
- To inform, train, and educate people about proven energy saving strategies and technologies whether they design, own, construct, maintain, or occupy buildings
- To help launch business ventures that will exploit market opportunities for providing whole building energy saving solutions
- The EEB Hub will also help foster job creation in the commercial building energy retrofit sector in the Greater Philadelphia region. In addition, our work will further develop the Navy Yard as a global center for energy efficient building research, development, demonstration, and deployment.
As the EEB Hub’s consortium of leading scientists and engineers collaborate to overcome critical energy challenges, we will identify new retrofit service and technology opportunities and support emerging business models for new ventures that leverage these opportunities for providing new and comprehensive retrofit solutions.
As initially configured, the EEB Hub included 22 performer organizations made up of research universities, DOE laboratories, industrial firms, economic development agencies, and community and technical colleges. Rather than a closed consortium, however, we are a dynamic association of members unified by the vision and mission of enabling the nation to reach the national goal of cutting energy usage in commercial buildings by “20 percent by 2020."
The EEB Hub is responsive and performance-driven, so we have the flexibility to modify and refine objectives, and reset milestones to provide the nation’s building sector with the best set of deliverables possible.
The EEB Hub is engaging key stakeholders in the retrofit decision process to serve as an informational, motivational, and practical resource for the various constituencies that will help carry our vision forward.
We facilitate education, cross-pollination and collaboration among:
- Commercial building owners, operators and occupants,
- Architects, engineers, construction firms and building system suppliers,
- Policy-makers and economic development organizations, and
- Workforce development organizations and educational institutions.
Energy independence is a goal widely supported for both economic and security reasons. Just imagine: the commercial building sector uses approximately 20 quadrillion BTUs annually. (1 quadrillion BTUs is equal to the annual energy output of forty 1,000 megawatt power plants!) A 20 percent reduction can dramatically and quickly help move the nation closer to its energy independence goal. The strategies and programs of the EEB Hub can have a transformative effect on how energy in this country is used, allowing energy management to become an operating reality for the commercial real estate sector. We are part of the solution. And we invite you to take part with us.
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