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Sustainable Energy Solutions Group Northern Arizona University (NAU) Northern Arizona University (NAU) is a doctoral-intensive institution that has at its core undergraduate programs, significant research, and graduate programs (http://www.nau.edu/). NAU provides students with an innovative and challenging liberal arts and sciences core integrated with a comprehensive number of professional programs. Key entities with NAU that support the conference are the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences (http://www.cet.nau.edu/) and the Sustainable Energy Solutions Group (http://ses.nau.edu). The College of Engineering and Natural Sciences offers several Bachelor of Science degrees including four engineering programs, computer science, and construction management, and Master of Engineering degrees in five areas. The mission of the Sustainable Energy Solutions Group is to provide society with broadly educated energy experts and new technologies, as well as to help shape energy decision-making in both the private and public sectors while increasing the public’s energy literacy. The group is composed of several faculty, staff and students from the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences and the College of Business Administration. NAU, known as the Mountain Campus, is unmatched for natural beauty and for student-centered programs and services.
Since 1949, Sandia National Laboratories has developed
science-based technologies that support our national security. Today,
the nearly 300 million Americans depend on Sandia's technology solutions
to solve national and global threats to peace and freedom. Through
science and technology, people, infrastructure, and partnerships,
Sandia's Energy and Infrastructure Assurance mission is to enhance
the surety of energy and other critical infrastructures. The Energy
and Infrastructure Assurance program supports Sandia's core purpose
of helping our nation secure a peaceful and free world through technology.
Our goal is to enhance the surety (safety, security, and reliability)
of energy and other critical infrastructures. Sandia is a government-owned/contractor
operated (GOCO) facility. Lockheed Martin manages Sandia for the
U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration.
We seek collaborative partnerships on emerging technologies that support
our mission.
The Grand Canyon Trust (GCT) is a regional non-profit
conservation organization whose mission is to protect and restore
the canyon country of the Colorado Plateau-its spectacular landscapes,
flowing rivers, clean air, diversity of plants and animals, and areas
of beauty and solitude. The Trust has a long history of working on
air quality issues focused on protecting visibility. However, given
the potentially devastating effects of global warming on the ecological
heritage of the Grand Canyon and Colorado Plateau, the Trust is actively
promoting the development of clean, renewable energy.
Salt River Project Salt River Project (SRP) provides electricity to nearly
860,000 retail customers in the Phoenix area. It operates or participates
in 11 major power plants and numerous other generating stations using. In
addition to traditional generating sources, SRP also seeks clean renewable
energy sources through its EarthWise Energy program. EarthWise Energy is
a more environmentally friendly way to produce electricity whether it be
energy from the sun, wind, the earth's heat, flowing water in our canals
and even decomposing garbage in landfills.
Western Resource Advocates Western Resource Advocates (formerly the Land and Water
Fund of the Rockies) is a non-profit environmental law and policy
organization dedicated to restoring and protecting the natural environment
of the Interior American West. Strategic program areas include Water,
Energy and Lands. Western Resource Advocates uses law, economics,
and policy analysis to protect land and water resources, protect essential
habitats for plants and animals, and assure that energy demands are
met in environmentally sound and sustainable ways. WRA meets its goals
in collaboration with other environmental and community groups and
by developing solutions that are appropriate to the unique environmental,
economic and cultural framework of the region. WRA's Energy Project
promotes sustainable energy technologies-such as energy efficiency,
solar and wind power, and the cleanup of dirty power plants-in six
states in the Rocky Mountain and Desert Southwest region, relying
on an interdisciplinary team to develop policies and markets to support
expanded clean energy investments. To date, WRA's work in the energy
arena has helped catalyze over half a billion dollars of investments
in clean energy technologies and has directly reduced pollutant emissions
by tens of thousands of tons.
A Personal Commitment to New Mexico PNM is an integrated utility serving more than 413,000
electric customers and 471,000 gas customers in New Mexico. PNM is
a subsidiary of PNM Resources, an energy holding company based in
Albuquerque. Among several environmental goals PNM has adopted for
itself, the company strives to become known as a national leader in
providing and promoting renewable energy. PNM purchases all of the
energy generated at the 200 megawatt (MW) New Mexico Wind Energy Center
located near House, NM. PNM offers wind energy to retail and commercial
customers through PNM Sky Blue™, a voluntary subscription program.
In 2005, PNM will build a 25 kilowatt solar photovoltaic facility,
develop a customer-owned solar photovoltaic program, and study the
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