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Welcome to the website of the San Joaquin Valley Clean Energy Organization (SJVCEO). Our vision is to help improve the quality of life in the eight county region of the San Joaquin by significantly increasing the Valley's use and reliance on clean energy (that is, energy efficiency and renewable energy sources). A key strength of our organization is our large and diverse Board, which contains senior representatives from Federal, State, regional and local governments, the private sector, utilities, nonprofits and colleges and universities from all counties in the region. The Board has a strong united vision for a clean energy future for the region. Another source of our strength is our close working relationship with the California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley -- an unprecedented public/private partnership focused on improving the region's quality of life for the 3.4 million residents who call the San Joaquin Valley home.

Our approach is to serve as a catalyst to pull together and support efforts to demonstrate how the Valley can use clean energy resources to meet its current and future energy needs. We want to be an advocate and champion for greater clean energy use in the Valley and work with you as we grow and develop to make that happen.

Our website reflects our approach. We will provide information on state-of-the-art clean energy best practices, projects underway in the region, opportunities to increase our region's clean energy use, and resources to help fund successful projects. We want our site to be interactive and are establishing several blogs to share our ideas with you and get your feedback on opportunities that we should be pursuing. Our site is currently a work in progress. Please bear with us as we grow and develop. We will be adding a great deal of additional content in the near future.

The San Joaquin Valley has many to assets to enable it to become a true leader in its use of clean energy. We have the natural resources and potential to use energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to help meet our future energy needs and those of the entire state of California. We look forward to working with you as we move forward.

Paul Johnson, Executive Director
San Joaquin Valley Clean Energy Organization

Historic preservation triggers added grant information

Applicants for Energy Efficiency Conservation Block Grant money have more work to do. The State Historic Preservation Officer requires that any small city or county receiving the stimulus money must submit added detail on the buildings in which energy efficiency retrofits will take place. The California Energy Commission released the news Friday. This means applicants must submit a detailed list of retrofits along with the name, address, construction date and a photograph of all buildings getting new lighting, AC systems, thermostats or other upgrades. The information is to satisfy Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, which specifies that any measures on a historic structure accommodate historic preservation. All of the retrofits involving the members of the San Joaquin Valley Clean Energy Partnership do not involve buildings on the historic register. However, members must still supply the state with the information.

Photo: Hotel St. Benedict Flats in Chicago courtesy the National Register of Historic Places.

  Posted on February 8, 2010 | 11:15 am

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