CEERT Affiliates
We are governed by an autonomous board of directors. We also convene coalitions of clean power allies and receive public support, technical assistance, and participation in our campaigns from the following affiliated new energy technology organizations. Click on the underlined links to visit their websites.
AES
AES operates in 27 countries, generating 44,000 megawatts of electricity through 124 power facilities and delivers electricity through 15 distribution companies. AES continues to improve and expand its global power services through great people, solid operations, and strong financial results. In 2005 AES acquired SeaWest Holdings, a major independent wind power developer headquartered in San Diego.
American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)
Since 1974, AWEA has advocated the development of wind energy as a reliable, environmentally superior energy alternative in the United States and around the world. With over 2,500 members and advocates, AWEA is the hub of the wind energy industry. AWEA is a national trade association representing wind power project developers, equipment suppliers, services providers, parts manufacturers, utilities, researchers, and others involved in the wind industry — one of the world's fastest growing energy industries.
Bergey Wind Power Company
The establishment of Bergey Windpower Co. (BWC) has its origins in research activities at the University of Oklahoma dating back to 1970. Bergey produces wind turbines that are smaller-scale machines appropriate for end users of the power. They are sold directly and through a national and international network of authorized dealers. BWC has received two national design awards from the Society of the Plastics Industry for its fiberglass rotor blades.
Bonneville Power Administration
Bonneville Power administration (BPA) began building transmission lines in the 1930s. BPA is a federal agency supported, not by the government, but by sales in transmission and electricity. It currently provides about half of the electricity used in the Northwest and controls more than three fourths of the area's high-voltage transmission. To BPA, energy conservation is playing an increasingly important role. Through the use of new, energy efficient products, the company has built up over 750 megawatts of energy conservation — enough to continually serve a city the size of Portland, Oregon.
BrightSource Energy Inc
BrightSource Energy, Inc. develops, builds, owns, and operates large-scale solar plants that reliably deliver low-cost solar energy to industrial and utility companies worldwide. BrightSource Energy's proprietary Luz Power Tower (LPT) 550 technology seeks to offer the highest operating efficiencies and lowest capital costs in the industry. Its solar plants are designed to minimize environmental impact and help custom¬ers reduce their dependence on fossil fuels. When completed, their Ivanpah project in California's Mojave Desert will be the largest solar thermal plant in the world.
California Solar Energy Industries Association (CAL SEIA)
The California Energy Industries Association (CAL SEIA) was founded in 1977 as a nonprofit solar industry trade association organized by professionals of the solar energy industry, which includes small-scale solar thermal, photovoltaic, and solar thermal electric technology companies or others doing solar-related business in California. CAL SEIA supports the widespread adoption of solar thermal and photovoltaic systems by educating consumers, supporting solar policies, and conducting business in a professional and ethical manner.
Element Power
Element Power is a global renewable energy company that develops, acquires, builds and operates utility-scale wind and solar power projects. Owned by Hudson Clean Energy Partners, a leading global private equity firm dedicated solely to investing in renewable power, alternative fuels, energy efficiency and storage, Element Power is pursuing projects in the European, North American, and South American energy markets.
EnerNOC
EnerNOC is transforming the way the world uses energy. The company helps commercial, institutional and industrial organizations use energy more intelligently, pay less for it, and generate cash flow that benefits the bottom line. Its technology-enabled energy management solutions help meet the needs of utilities and grid operators that deliver energy and are responsible for maintaining the real-time balance between supply and demand.
Environmental Defense Fund
Environmental Defense Fund is a leading national environmental organization representing more than 400,000 members. Since 1967, EDF has linked science, economics and law to create innovative, equitable and cost-effective solutions to society's most urgent environmental problems. EDF is one of America's most influential environmental advocacy groups, with over 500,000 members and more than 350 scientists, economists, attorneys and other professionals on staff.
enXco
enXco has extensive experience and competencies gained over more than twenty years across a spectrum of services. enXco's renewable energy portfolio consists of over 30 renewable energy projects in 13 states, with additional developments in Mexico and Canada. Its Operations and Maintenance Team, the largest North American provider of third-party O&M, services over 5,200 turbines generating over 4,600 MW of electricity. It has successfully developed 26 wind projects generating nearly 2 GW and 8 solar projects generating over 45 MW.
First Solar, Inc
First Solar, the world's leading manufacturer of thin-film photovoltaic modules, is providing sustainable energy solutions for today's energy needs. By constantly decreasing manufacturing costs, it is creating an affordable and environmentally responsible alternative to fossil-fuel generation. It has achieved the lowest manufacturing cost per watt in the industry, breaking $1 per watt in 2008.
FuelCell Energy, Inc.
FuelCell Energy, Inc. is a world leader in the development and manufacture of stationary fuel cells that generate electricity with up to twice the efficiency of conventional fossil fuel plants — and with virtually no air pollution. The company has over 50 installations worldwide that have generated over 550 million kW hours of electricity. Its power plants operate on a variety of fuels, including methane from biogas, waste gas from industrial processes, and natural gas.
GE Wind Energy
General Electric installed its first steam turbine in 1901. Its installed base of steam and heavy-duty gas turbines has grown to over 10,000 units, representing over a million megawatts (MW) of installed capacity in more than 120 countries. With over 5,500 wind and 3,600 hydro turbines, the installed capacity of renewable energy exceeds 160,000 MW and is rapidly growing. GE Wind is a major supplier of wind power turbines.
Horizon Wind Energy
Horizon Wind Energy, formerly Zilkha Renewable Energy, develops, constructs, owns and operates wind farms throughout North America.. Based in Houston with over 20 offices and over 20 wind farms across the United States, Horizon has developed more than 3,400 MW and operates over 2,800 MW of wind farms. Horizon is owned by EDP Renováveis S.A., a global leader in the renewable energy sector that designs, develops, manages and operates power plants that generate electricity using renewable energy sources.
Iberdrola Renewables
Iberdrola Renewables, an Oregon-based company, specializes in providing alternative energy solutions to large corporate customers. Iberdrola Renewables is able to work with wind energy, natural gas, energy and asset management, and fuel procurement. Iberdrola Renewables is unique in its ability to make available a wide variety of services and products to meet a customer's specific needs.
Ice Energy
Ice Energy is a leading provider of advanced energy storage and smart grid solutions to the electric utility industry. Ice, which is based in Colorado with offices in Orange County and Northern California, is dedicated to transforming energy system efficiency and improving grid reliability by using distributed energy storage to promote energy efficiency and renewable resources, and enabling the transition to a cleaner, smarter, more sustainable and more affordable power grid.
Itron
Itron Inc. is a leading technology provider to the global energy and water industries. The company is the world's leading provider of intelligent metering, data collection and utility software solutions, with nearly 8,000 utilities worldwide relying on our technology to optimize the delivery and use of energy and water. Its products include electricity, gas, water and heat meters, data collection and communication systems, including automated meter reading and advanced metering infrastructure; meter data management and related software applications; and project management, installation, and consulting services.
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP)
LADWP, the largest municipal utility in the nation, was established more than 100 years ago to deliver reliable, safe water and electricity supplies to some 3.8 million residents and businesses in Los Angeles. LADWP supplies more than 22 million megawatt hours a year for its 1.4 million electricity customers. LADWP solely owns five generating facilities located in and around Los Angeles, and partially owns or has power purchase agreements with an additional five facilities in the western United States.
MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company
In 1971, CalEnergy Company, Inc. was established as a developer of geothermal power production facilities in North America. CalEnergy continued this strategy in 1998 with its' acquisition by MidAmerican Energy, a successful regional retail energy provider in the United States. The company was reorganized as MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company in March 1999. MidAmerican Energy Company is the largest utility in Iowa and provides service to more than 706,000 electric customers and more than 687,000 natural gas customers from Sioux Falls, SD to the Quad Cities area of Iowa and Illinois. In the process it has become one of the nation's leading wind energy producers.
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is a national nonprofit environmental organization. NRDC has more than 350,000 members and contributors nationwide, and a staff of lawyers, scientists, and other environmental specialists. NRDC's Energy Program works on the reinvention of the electric industry by helping to rewrite the rules of electric competition; works for the adoption of energy-efficient codes for appliances and buildings; and promotes renewable energy technologies and design standards for "green" buildings. It also works on issues of sustainable land use; clean vehicles, and clean transportation infrastructure/smart transit.
NextEra Energy Resources
NextEra Energy Resources has power generating facilities in 26 states and Canada, and is the largest generator of wind and solar power in North America. More than 90 percent of NextEra Energy Resources generation in California is renewable — wind turbines in Tehachapi and Altamont Pass, the world's largest solar energy facility in Barstow, and three geothermal properties in Costa Mesa. NextEra Energy is an FPL Group company.
Oak Creek Energy Systems Inc.
Oak Creek Energy Systems is a wind energy pioneer, beginning with one of the first wind farms built in California in early 1982. The company has played an active role in the wind energy industry and worked to advance major transmission improvements in California. 4,500 MW of new transmission capacity has already been approved for the Tehachapi area, Oak Creek having a major portion of that capacity and an extensive pipeline of large-scale projects with development through 2015. Oak Creek operates approximately 180 wind turbines between Tehachapi and Mojave in the Tehachapi Wind Resource Area. In 2010 Oak Creek was acquired by Ridgetop Energy LLC.
Ormat Technologies Inc
Ormat Technologies Inc. is a world leader in the geothermal power plant sector, and has over four decades of experience in geothermal and recovered energy generation. Ormat is today's only vertically-integrated provider of geothermal and recovered energy-based equipment, services and power that designs, develops, builds and manufactures most of the equipment used in its plants. Ormat has installed approximately 1,300 MW of geothermal and recovered energy generation power plants worldwide.
Ram Power Corp.
Ram Power Corp. is a renewable energy company in the business of acquiring, exploring, developing and operating geothermal power projects. Founded in 2008 as Ram Power, Inc., the Company combined with three publically traded Canadian geothermal power companies in October 2009 to take advantage of economies of scale in project development. Ram Power Corp. has an interest in geothermal projects in California, Nevada, Nicaragua, Canada and elsewhere. The Company's mission is to become a leading global renewable power project developer and supplier of clean and reliable geothermal power.
Renewable Northwest Project
In 1994, a broad coalition of public-interest organizations and energy companies created the Renewable Northwest Project (RNP) to actively promote development of the region's untapped renewable resources. RNP has proven to be a forceful advocate for expanding solar, wind and geothermal energy throughout Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana. RNP works on three strategic objectives: 1) to encourage the development of new renewable projects; 2) to promote policies that support additional renewable resource development; and 3) to help build a credible green market in the region.
Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD)
The Sacramento Municipal Utility District was founded with the idea that providing electric power to Sacramento was a job best done by a public utility overseen by an elected board of directors. As the sixth largest publicly owned utility in the country in terms of customers served, its innovative energy programs are known throughout the state, nation and world. SMUD's purpose is to provide solutions for meeting its customers' electrical energy needs. Its vision is to be a leader in customer satisfaction and a positive force in promoting community benefits.
Solar Millennium LLC
Solar Millennium's vision, since the founding of the company, has been to enable energy conversion through the construction of solar thermal power plants. Solar Millennium is already putting this vision into practice: the development of the first European parabolic trough power plants has been underway in southern Spain since 2006. Solar Millennium is one of the leading developers of solar thermal projects in California's Mojave Desert region.
SunPower Corporation
Chosen most by Fortune 500 companies and government agencies turning to solar, SunPower offers the highest-efficiency solar photovoltaic technology available. It controls the process from beginning to end, from solar cell manufacturing to installation and maintenance over the life of the system. In 2008, SunPower signed an agreement with PG&E to build the world's largest – 250 MW – photovoltaic (PV) power plant, set to begin energy delivery in 2010.
Terra-Gen Power, LLC
Terra-Gen Power is a renewable energy company focused on geothermal, wind and solar generation. Terra-Gen Power owns 831 MW (net equity) in twenty-one operating renewable energy projects across the Western United States. The company primarily sells the output of the renewable energy projects to load-serving entities under long-term power purchase agreements. Terra-Gen Power plans to expand operations in renewable generation through a combination of acquisitions of operating projects, development of new projects and partnering on mid and late stage development opportunities.
3Degrees
3Degrees helps fund clean energy and carbon reduction projects through financial commitments by its customers that are seeking to reduce their environmental footprint. It does this by originating and providing high-quality Renewable Energy Certificates and Verified Emission Reductions from around the world. Since 2002, the 3Degrees team has provided renewable energy and carbon offset solutions to hundreds of organizations helping to direct capital to over 200 clean energy and other carbon reduction projects across the globe.
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
UCS was founded in 1969 by faculty members and students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who were concerned about the misuse of science and technology in society. Their statement called for the redirection of scientific research to pressing environmental and social problems. UCS is an independent nonprofit alliance of more than 100,000 concerned citizens and scientists. It augments rigorous scientific analysis with innovative thinking and committed citizen advocacy to build a cleaner, healthier environment and a safer world.
UTC Power
UTC Power, a unit of United Technologies Corp., based in South Windsor, Conn., is a world leader in developing and producing fuel cells that generate energy for buildings and for transportation, space and defense applications.
Vestas Wind Systems
Vestas started to manufacture wind turbines in 1979, and has played an active role in this dynamic industry ever since. In 1987, Vestas began to concentrate exclusively on wind energy and since then, the company has developed from a pioneer in the industry with a staff of around 60 to a global high-tech market-leading group with more than 9,500 employees. Vestas has installed 41,000 turbines on behalf of its customers in 65 countries.
