Ed Morrison · Building NEO’s clean energy economy

Source: Brewed Fresh Daily

Tom Breckenridge reports on NorTech’s energy strategy:
NorTech pushing for advanced-energy industry growth in Northeast Ohio

“The way we produce and consume energy will change dramatically and new technologies will emerge to enable that,” said Richard Stuebi, an energy expert on loan to NorTech’s Energy Enterprise from the Cleveland Foundation. “By most people’s reckoning, it will be the biggest economic opportunity in the next 50 years. We need to get our fair share of the opportunity so we can rebound economically.”

It’s important to keep focused on NorTech’s clean energy strategy. The history of NorTech is filled with “on again, off again” action plans and empty strategy documents.

Let’s hope that with new leadership, NorTech will stay focused.

And what about investment priorities? Is this NorTech’s new focus on renewable energy clusters more important than MedMart?

If you have a tough time answering that one, check out this report, released last week, on the potential for clean energy in Texas:
Report: Going green could create thousands of Texas jobs

Here’s the Texas report:

Texas Clean Energy Economy Report August 2010

Last week, Southern governors also focused on the potential:
The South can rise with clean energy
Here is the policy brief:

Renewable Energy in the South Policy Brief