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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 11, 2002

Contacts:            Craig Cox, 303-679-9331

                          Michael Neary, 602-253-8180

 

Arizona Businesses Join Together to Advance Clean New Energy Technologies

 

Sixteen Arizona businesses and non-profit organizations have joined together to form the Arizona Coalition for New Energy Technologies.  “This new coalition demonstrates that there is a large and growing business constituency for clean and efficient sources of energy in Arizona,” said Craig Cox, the group’s executive director.

 

“This new coalition shows that renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies are an important and growing part of the Arizona business community,” said Lane Garrett, President of ETA Engineering, Inc., a Tempe engineering design house and distributor of renewable energy systems.  “The new paradigm of renewable energy will be a rapidly growing source of new job opportunities.”

 

The mission statement of the Arizona Coalition for New Energy Technologies notes that Arizona is a leader in advancing new energy technologies through public policy mechanisms and says that the coalition encourages “environmentally responsible economic growth through the efficient use of Arizona’s abundant and clean sources of energy.”

 

Coalition director Cox said that the group will concentrate on promoting awareness of its members’ technologies to policymakers, business leaders, the academic community, the media and other opinion leaders throughout Arizona.  He notes that the coalition is based on a similar group in Colorado, which he says has enjoyed “considerable success in its mission” since its founding two years ago.

 

“I hope that the Arizona Coalition for New Energy Technologies will show how clean-energy technologies can create jobs throughout the state, bring electricity to rural areas and tribal lands, and make improvements in the state’s air quality and environment,” said Doran Dalton of NativeSUN in Kykotsmovi.  “We must leverage our state’s abundant resource potential and take advantage of our knowledge base:  together, Northern Arizona University, Arizona State University and the University of Arizona have one of the best clean-energy academic talent bases in the nation.”

 

According to Cox, the coalition’s first event will be a briefing by several of its business members at the state capitol in Phoenix during the legislature’s 2002 session.  The group’s honorary advisory board includes former U.S. Representatives Matt Salmon (R-Scottsdale) and Karan English (D-Flagstaff), who Cox characterized as strong supporters of new energy technologies in Arizona.  Its Arizona representative is Michael Neary, executive director of the Arizona Solar Energy Industries Association.  The coalition’s 16 members are listed below.

 

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Members of Arizona Coalition for New Energy Technologies:

 

A-C-E Builders, Inc. (Kingman), BP Solar Corporation (Scottsdale), Bergey WindPower, CH2M Hill (Tempe), Community of Civano (Tucson), Deluge, Inc. (Phoenix), Enron Wind Corp., ETA Engineering Inc. (Tempe), First Solar (Scottsdale), Global Solar Energy, Inc. (Tucson), Kinko’s (locations throughout Arizona), NativeSUN (Kykotsmovi), Natural Lighting Company, Inc. (Phoenix), Southwest Windpower (Flagstaff), URS Corporation (Phoenix, Tucson), Versar, Inc. (Tempe)