Am attending the CADER conference being held this week in La Jolla. One of the topics so appealing to me is “Community Energy + Cleantech = Homebase for the new economy. ” Hot topics will include community owned energy AND micro-grids!!! They will be talking about the role of energy in our economic future.
No representatives of Coos County attended the Future Energy Conference in Portland that I saw but other communities are actively embracing the potential of energy to produce badly needed revenue streams. The cities of Troutdale, Gresham, Corvallis, Klamath Falls and Portland are all actively implementing and looking for ways to finance energy projects to fund public services.
Then there is Coos Bay…. how long will the citizens allow the moratorium on wind energy??? Rogue River Wind has plenty of business without Coos Bay but the citizens are the real losers if they allow city leaders to ignore decentralized energy opportunities.
