Title: Fusion that Works - 2009 Clean Energy Fellow Imran Qidwai at America.gov
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— By Imran Qidwai, 17 March 2010
What do you do when you want $1 billion in investment to come your way? You prepare to grab it. That’s what New England Clean Energy Council(NECEC) is trying to do.
Launched in 2007, it aims to accelerate New England’s clean energy economy by building a community of stakeholders and a world-class cluster of clean-tech companies. If the council members - clean energy firms, venture capital funds, major financial institutions, local universities, large commercial end-users and others – set up an effective system of education, training as well as technology development and technology adoption, the region may get $1 billion in clean-tech investment by 2012, according to a 2008 report from several consultancies.
This system already has taken shape to a large degree. NECEC has worked with the Massachusetts legislature to design the framework for a clean energy seed grant program and a green jobs initiative.
Read the full post at America.gov.
Imran Qidwai is the president of Zaviah, a high-tech consultancy firm, and a managing partner at Totten Energy Services, an energy company, both in Boston.