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EDF Renewable Energy

EDF Renewable Energy has had 25 years of experience working for the development and long term care of wind farms across the United State and Mexico (1 Project). Their main services are Project Development, Operations and Maintenance, and Asset Management. They have a renewable energy portfolio of over 70 renewable energy projects. They have two projects in Klickitat, Washington, and a solar project that they helped develop in Yamhill County, Oregon.

Organization Type: For Profit Corporation

Website

http://www.edf-re.com/

Contact e-mail

http://www.edf-re.com/contact/form/

Telephone

(888) 903-6926

Address

15445 Innovation Dr. San Diego, CA 92128

3 Tier

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3 Tier is a corporation that does renewable energy risk analysis. It uses weather science in order to “manage the risk of weather-driven variability.” They believe that financial success is the key to encouraging companies and people to invest in renewable energy. 3 Tier works in North America, Europe, India, Latin America and the Pacific Rim. They offer services and products that include energy project feasibility, asset management and energy marketing.

Organization Type: For Profit Corporation

Website

http://www.3tier.com

Contact e-mail

http://www.3tier.com/en/contact/

Telephone

(206) 325-1573

Address

2001 Sixth Ave. Suite 2100 Seattle, WA 98121

Oregon Wave Energy Trust

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The Oregon Wave energy Trust’s mission is “to promote the responsible development of wave energy in Oregon”. Their goal is to power two communities in Oregon with wave and/or tidal energy by 2025. They work to commercialize wave energy and create connections between companies, research institutions and stakeholders.

Organization Type: Non-profit Public-Private partnership

Website

http://www.oregonwave.org/

Contact e-mail

info@oregonwave.org

Telephone

(503) 224-1966

Address

Po Box 8626 Portland, Oregon, 97207

NW Energy Coalition

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The NW Energy Coalition advocates clean and sustainable energy. It also works in habitat restoration and low income energy assistance. It is active in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and British Columbia and has 115 members, mostly environmentally conscious businesses.

Organization Type: An alliance of environmental organizations and businesses

Website

http://www.nwenergy.org/

Contact e-mail

nwec@nwenergy.org

Telephone

(206) 621-0094

Address

811 1st Avenue, Suite 305, Seattle, Washington, 98104

Friends of the Earth

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Friends of the Earth focuses on bringing people from all over the world together to work on certain issues that have to do with climate change. They are multi-faceted and deal with many different issues including promoting conservation of energy and the spread of clean energy. One of the projects they are currently working on is fighting the tar sands oil coming from the Boreal Forest in Canada.

Organization Type: Grassroots Environmental Network

Website

http://www.foe.org/projects/climate-and-energy

Contact e-mail

http://www.foe.org/about-us/contact

Telephone

(510) 900-3150

Address

2150 Allston Way, Suite 240 Berkeley, California 94704

Climate Solutions

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Climate Solutions has focused on showing that clean energy and economic prosperity can go hand in hand. Their programs “Business Leaders: New Energy Cities” and “Harvesting Clean Energy” have focused on developing local clean energy sources and gathering political force to do something about climate change.

Analysis of Climate Solutions Activities:
Climate Solutions Company Paper

Organization Type: Non-Profit Organization

Website

http://climatesolutions.org/nw-states/

Contact e-mail

http://climatesolutions.org/about/contact

Telephone

(360) 352-1763

Address

219 Legion Way SW, Suite 201 Olympia, Washington 98501

Sustainable Northwest

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Sustainable Northwest’s mission is to bring “people, ideas, and innovation together so that nature, local economies and rural communities can thrive.” In the area of decarbonization they are trying to develop local energy sources, specifically biomass energy. They are working both for the development of biomass energy and the maximization of energy output from that biomass. One of the things they have done is to get a lumber mill to dedicate part of their trees to start producing wood based fuels. They have also worked to get the small diameter trees removed in forest restoration efforts made into wood pellets and bricks.

Organization Type: Non-Profit Organization

Website

http://www.sustainablenorthwest.org/

Contact e-mail

info@sustainablenorthwest.org

Telephone

(503) 221-6911

Address

813 SW Alder, Suite 500 Portland, OR 97205

Aquamarine Power

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Aquamarine Power is a European company that has developed a way of harnessing wave power that they call Oyster technology. Oyster technology consists of a near shore (around half a kilometer away from shore) device that uses a hinged flap to push high pressure water through a subsea pipeline to an onshore hydroelectric turbine, like the ones used with dams. They want to install a “demonstration array” of three Oyster generators on the West Coast by 2016. So far they have been given a $100,000 grant from the Oregon Wave Energy Trust to find out about suitable sites for wave energy on Oregon’s coast. They are also pursuing opportunities in Washington and California.

Organization Type: For profit corporation

Website

http://www.aquamarinepower.com/projects/west-coast-usa/

Contact e-mail

info@aquamarinepower.com

Telephone

44 141 524 1440 (international)

Address

Elder House, 24 Elder Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH1 3DX

Northwest National Marine Energy Center

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The University of Washington is responsible for tidal energy research and Oregon State University is concerned with wave energy research. These two institutions are doing research that looks at the potential of installing wave energy on the West coast and some of the possible consequences of doing so. Some key issues are: how the devices that gather wave/tidal energy will affect the distribution of sediment, how they will affect h actual pattern of currents, how they will affect the fauna, especially mammals and sea animals that depend on magnetic fields for navigation, how they will affect the food chain, and how to deal with he reduced efficiency that comes with accumulated bio fouling.

Organization Type: Government organization (partnership between the University of Washington and Oregon State University funded by the DOE)

Website

http://depts.washington.edu/nnmrec/

Contact e-mail

bpolagye@uw.edu

Telephone

(206) 543-7544

Address

University of Washington, Box 352600, Seattle, WA 98195-2600