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What We Do

PGEI provides the organizing power and network processes to marshal and focus human and technological resources to define, build, test and rapidly deploy significant numbers of clean and renewable energy systems in all sectors of the economy; residential, commercial, industrial and transportation.

Why We Do What We Do

The present complex web of businesses, institutions and regulations evolved to manage an energy economy based on oil and large scale electricity generation from coal and hydro power. These organizations are not designed or organized to effectively manage the emerging, new energy economy.

This new energy economy is shaping to be a patchwork of regional supply portfolios with distributed energy systems (e.g. solar powered homes, geo-exchange systems, and district scale energy supply systems) playing a very large role. It involves a shift to electric transportation and creating huge new demands for green / clean electricity at competitive prices. It involves "smart" grid technologies and more efficient prime movers and appliances across the board.

Although many organizations (public, private and non-profit) are engaged in a wide variety of activities relating to Climate Change and Sustainability that impinge on energy technology commercialization, they are also advancing their own independent agendas.

These silo agendas have little to do with the acceleration of deployment of energy technologies and everything to do with existing corporate cultures and established ways of doing things. Too often this results in activities that are isolated and ineffective, in conflict or compromised, or diluted by duplication of effort.

Simply because existing organizations (public, private or NGO) have their own vested interests, it is essential that the coordination and networking processes be carried out by a neutral body, whose entire focus is the rapid deployment of energy technologies in full scale demonstrations - hence the formation of the Pacific Green Energy Initiative.



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