Renewable Energy

Vandewalle & Associates is working with key communities in the region to help proactively reposition themselves in the Green Economy, build new economies, and replace jobs. Renewable Energy is a foundational industry in this economy.

Growing the Renewable Energy industry requires more than the new technology. It also requires innovative public policy, and strategic investments to stimulate the growth of new markets. We are working to leverage community assets, existing infrastructure, corporations and R&D to create centerpoints for the Renewable Energy industry and other expanding economic clusters. Here's where:

GREAT LAKES GREEN INDUSTRY COMPLEX. This green manufacturing center would be rooted in existing underutilized industrial lands. Targeting green manufacturers, green product suppliers, and triple bottom line companies, the Complex would transform the revitalization of the corridor from a local economic development initiative into a national model for central city economic alignment and national center for innovative, economy-driving manufacturing.

BIOAG GATEWAY. Located at the historic and physical crossroads of the state’s Ag and Biotech industries, this research and commercialization hub would house the BioLink Incubator and field test plots. A focus for the Incubator would be dedicated energy crops, renewable fuels, and other bioenergy sources.

JEFFERSON RENEWABLE ENERGY PARK. Vandewalle & Associates framed a catalytic economic opportunity for a business park powered by green energy that would expand area innovation. Anchored by an existing ethanol plant, the park will offer businesses reliable, redundant and affordable renewable energy, advancing the triple bottom line of park businesses.

Other renewable energy projects:

RIFLE, COLORADO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT and RIFLE BRANDING MATERIALS

PORT EDWARDS, WISCONSIN

CEDAR VALLEY TECHWORKS GREEN CAMPUS

LINCOLN-LOGAN, ILLINOIS