San Joaquin Valley Clean Energy Organization

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, Interim Executive Director
San Joaquin Valley Clean Energy Organization

Farming Clean Energy Conference--HUGE Success!

Colleagues and Friends:

On behalf of the San Joaquin Valley Clean Energy Organization and Strategic Energy Innovations, I would like to thank you for being part of the first Farming Clean Energy conference in Tulare on November 5-6th at the Southern California Edison AGTAC Center. On our website you will find an overview of the conference highlights, a list of attendees, the final conference agenda, and copies of the presentations.

Your participation helped make the event a success! A special thanks goes to our sponsors – the US Department of Agriculture, the California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley, Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas and Electric, Southern California Gas Company, US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Emerald Energy, Fuel Cell Energy, EnerNoc Inc., Sustainable Conservation, Sierra Pacific Home and Comfort, and AltSys Solar. Without their financial support, this conference would not have been possible.

I was particularly pleased with the open and direct dialog that was generated around the challenges that we currently face in capturing the tremendous clean energy potential in the agricultural sector in the Valley. SJVCEO staff intends to work with partners throughout the region to identify follow-up needs and provide value-added support to capture opportunities and develop promising clean energy projects and partnerships identified in the conference. After some additional conversations with our partners and potential funders, we will get back to you to describe specific next steps we will be taking.

As you are well aware, these are very tough economic times. However, it is important to remain focused on the very positive economic opportunities that increased use of clean energy offers to the Valley and us. We look forward to working with you in the days and months ahead to capture this opportunity.


Most Sincerely,

Paul Johnson,
Executive Director
San Joaquin Valley Clean Energy Organization

  Posted on November 18, 2008 | 5:02 pm

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