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Comment by J Jay Pirko on July 13, 2010 at 9:58pm

We are building the new energy economy in the "Tech Belt" Youngstown Ohio region, with a "Green Tech" electrical workers training facility, operational wind, photovoltaic solar, waste-to-energy electricity generation, the energy-efficient Chevy Cruze, a "Green Energy Business Incubator," diesel engines designed to run on natural gas, and a new $650,000,000 steel mill to produce the pipes to drill the Marcellus shale gas deposits. - J. J. Pirko, Pickens Plan Ohio 17th District Leader

Comment by J Jay Pirko on July 2, 2010 at 4:05pm

To the Pickens Plan Army:

More good news from this hotbed of energy independence technology:

Read the following link to this news story "Trumbull gets funds for solar energy" in Youngstown Vindicator.

The "Green Energy Business Incubator" project is also included in this news article.

http://www.vindy.com/news/2010/jun/30/trumbull-gets-funds-for-solar...


James Jay (Jim) Pirko
Pickens Plan District Leader (OH-17)

Full Story from Vindy.com:

Trumbull gets funds for solar energy
By Ed Runyan

Wednesday, June 30, 2010



The Vindicator

This is the Trumbull County Department of Job and Family Services building on North Park Avenue just north of Courthouse Square, Warren, where officials plan to mount solar-energy collection panels sometime late this year or early next year with $300,000 in federal stimulus money.

By ED RUNYAN

runyan@vindy.com

WARREN

Sometime late this year or early next year, Trumbull County is likely to become the first government body in the Mahoning Valley with a solar-energy collection system.

Trumbull County commissioners learned Tuesday that the county’s application for $300,000 in federal-stimulus money to buy and install the system on the county’s Department of Job and Family Services building downtown has been formally approved.

Trish Nuskievicz, assistant director of the county’s planning commission, said she doesn’t know how much electricity the solar panels will generate or how much money these will save the county, but the benefits are not only financial.

Nuskievicz said she is hopeful that the local electrical workers union, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, which also has installed solar panels at its facility on Research Parkway in Champion, will be able to participate in the installation of the panels so that its members can obtain a solar-power certification.

The experience of installing the system, being able to demonstrate it to other governments and businesses and the connection to the green- energy incubator planned for downtown Warren hopefully will help solar power “catch on,” Nuskievicz said.

It also could help encourage green-energy companies to locate in some of the vacant buildings in the Warren area, she said.

“We’ve always promoted renewable energy in the county, but it’s always been cost-prohibitive,” Nuskievicz said. “Once people can see the cost savings, it can catch on.”

If the system is able to collect more energy than the building uses at a given time, the excess energy goes back into the “power grid,” and the county will get credits for power that can be used at another time, she said.

A few more steps are required before the county can put the project out to bid, but Nuskievicz hopes it can occur sometime late this year. The project has a deadline for completion of summer 2011.

The Job and Family Services building was chosen for the project because it has a new roof. The county acquired and renovated the building on North Park Avenue just north of Courthouse Square several years ago.

The system being installed will generate between 42 and 50 kilowatt-hours of electricity, which Nuskievicz says is likely to be enough to power four average homes or 349 computers.

Comment by J Jay Pirko on May 16, 2010 at 3:10pm

Congressman Tim Ryan (OH-17) Newsletter Reported:

NORTHEAST OHIO IS RIPE FOR 'GREEN GROWTH'
In a Vindy article from Monday, Team NEO, a Cleveland-based nonprofit that promotes business development and attraction, released its quarterly economic report. The report focuses on the future of “clean-tech” industries in the 16 counties that make up Northeastern Ohio. Major Northeastern Ohio manufacturing sectors that make up the clean-tech supply chain include fabricated metals, plastics, machinery, iron and steel mills and structural metals.

These industries contribute $12.5 billion to the regional economy and make up 35 percent of manufacturing in the area. The industries are expected to grow more than 20 percent by 2015, according to the Team NEO report. The report points out that U.S. Department of Labor has identified occupations expected to see increased demand from the growing clean-tech sector, including computer-controlled machine tool operators, machine setters, materials scientists and industrial production managers.

SELECTED TO POWERFUL DEFENSE SUBCOMMITTEE
Earlier this week, I announced my selection to the powerful Defense Appropriations Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives. I am humbled and honored to fill the vacancy caused by the untimely death of Congressman John Murtha of Pennsylvania.

The Defense Appropriations Subcommittee has jurisdiction over the Department of Defense – Military, Departments of Army, Navy (including Marine Corps), Air Force, Office of Secretary of Defense, certain Defense Agencies, the Central Intelligence Agency, and Intelligence Community Staff.

This appointment is a huge win for the 17th District. The Defense budget is the largest of all the budgets in the United States government. Having the opportunity to steer federal defense dollars to our district will accelerate the economic progress of our region and further promote the Tech Belt initiative. I will make sure everyone doing business with the Pentagon knows what a great place Northeast Ohio is to do business.

I have been given a very serious responsibility and a tremendous opportunity to serve on the subcommittee that provides direction and funding for our national security. I will work extremely hard to make sure the men and women who serve our great country have all of the resources they need. This seat on the Defense Appropriations subcommittee will have a significant impact on our military facilities at the Ravenna Training and Logistics Site and the Youngstown-Warren Air Reserve Wing and its 910 Airlift Wing, as well as the manufacturers and contractors in our region that provide equipment and services to the military.

In Fiscal Year 2010, the Defense Appropriations subcommittee appropriated more than $625.9 billion for Defense-related activities including operations and training, health care for uniformed and civilian personnel, the maintenance of arms, equipment and facilities, and the development and purchase of new equipment.

I also joined the Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government and retained his seat on the Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education.

PRESIDENT OBAMA TO TRAVEL TO YOUNGSTOWN
I'm proud to announce that President Obama will be visiting Youngstown on Tuesday, May 18. The President will tour the V&M Star facility and address the current economy, and efforts to retain and create jobs in Northeastern Ohio and across the country.

I have been urging President Obama to visit the Mahoning Valley, and look forward to showing him first-hand the exciting progress that we are making here. National and international publications have recognized the positive economic news coming from our community. Our progress has now caught the attention of the President of the United States.

It is evident that our local economic development strategy is bearing fruit; residents, businesses, and local governments throughout the Valley and the District stand to reap long-term benefits from a number of recent positive investments in our economy – V&M Star, GM Lordstown, Revere Data, and Severstal Steel are just the beginning. These significant investments send a clear message that Ohio's 17th District has a world-class workforce and is home to a globally-competitive business climate.

TAA ASSISTANCE FOR FORMER MAHONING GLASS EMPLOYEES
Yesterday, I announced that workers of Mahoning Glass Plant in Niles, OH were certified to receive important job training and placement assistance from the U. S. Department of Labor.

According to the report issued by the Department of Labor:

"All workers of Mahoning Glass Plant, GE Appliances and Lighting Division, a subsidiary of General Electric Co., Inc., Niles, Ohio, who became totally or partially separated from employment on or after March 29, 2010, through two years from the date of certification, and all workers in the group threatened with total or partial separation from employment on the date of certification through two years from the date of certification, are eligible to apply for adjustment assistance under Chapter 2 of Title II of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended."

I will continue to urge the Obama Administration to provide TAA benefits for all constituents in the 17th District who have lost their jobs. The advantages provided by training and job placement assistance will position the former employees of Mahoning Glass Plant for success in a new economy.

* Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) and Alternative Trade Adjustment Assistance (ATAA) help trade-affected workers who have lost their jobs as a result of increased imports or shifts in production out of the United States. Certified individuals may be eligible to receive one or more program benefits and services depending on what is needed to return them to employment. (Source: http://www.doleta.gov/tradeact/benefits.cfm)

Comment by KENN DRESCHER on April 5, 2010 at 1:37pm

I'm seeking a source of wholesale PV Panels. I've been studying Chinese Companys. They seem to have a lot of product. Have located a wholesaler in my city, however, no response from staff yet.

I'd like any constructive feedback on these imported products. Or, any American manufactures with affordable, quality products. So far, looks like China has really pursued this market. However with continuing problems with Chinese products, today Drywall, I'm leary.

Any info on distributers in the Mid West would be helpful.

Comment by Tom Bailey on March 17, 2010 at 5:56pm

More positive frontline info!
This link has more great info on the role of renewables! And it seems we should look to investing.
Best; Tom

Comment by KENN DRESCHER on March 17, 2010 at 4:00pm

Ck-Out: Americas Wind Energy Corp.

Comment by Jerry McDonald on March 2, 2010 at 9:31am

We are on the edge of winning the Pepsi RefreshEverything competition with our entry. If we do we'll train young people how to operate CNG & LNG fuel stations.

Follow this link and vote 1 time a day until March 31.
http://www.refresheverything.com/flatiron

Comment by norman powers on February 1, 2010 at 12:55pm

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Comment by Tom Bailey on January 16, 2010 at 6:29am

The latest petition " Energy indepenence now petition" is a new one we all need to sign.

Please take a second to do it.
Thanks for all you are doing as the labor continues!

Best; Tom

Comment by J Jay Pirko on December 22, 2009 at 11:43pm

Notice to Entrepreneurs in the New Energy Economy:

ADVANCED-ENERGY BUSINESS INCUBATOR IN WARREN, OHIO

The Youngstown-Warren Ohio region (in northeast Ohio and western Pennsylvania) is a hotbed for Green Energy technology and business opportunity.

The Youngstown Business Journal published this article, another example of their outstanding business news coming from the Youngstown region. (I strongly recommend subscribing to the Youngstown Business Journal daily news broadcasts, and in-depth printed newspaper.)

- James Jay Pirko
OH-17 District Leader


NorTech to Help Launch Warren Incubator
-- 12/15/2009
Dec. 22, 2009 6:48 a.m.
By Dennis LaRue
WARREN, Ohio -- Possessed of a vision and fortified with $2.7 million in federal and state grants and another $1.7 million in private funding, a steering committee of 26 will, over the next 10 months, work toward the birth of an advanced-energy business incubator downtown.

Midwife to this birth is Rebecca O. Bagley, president and CEO of NorTech, a consulting firm based in downtown Cleveland whose tagline is “Growing Northeast Ohio’s High Tech Economy.”

Bagley, U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, D-17 Ohio, state Sen. Capri Cafaro, D-32 Hubbard, state Rep. Tom Letson, D-64 Warren, and Mayor Michael O’Brien, outlined their vision Monday of what such an incubator might achieve in the fields of “advanced energy and flexible materials.”

Long on optimism and short on specifics, the four expressed hope the incubator will rejuvenate manufacturing in Mahoning Valley through infant enterprises that one day produce parts for windmills, geothermal, solar and nuclear energy plants and sources of energy other than petroleum, coal and natural gas.

“Four hundred tons of steel go into a windmill,” Ryan noted.

Bagley offered a number of people she expects would be employed in the incubator -- “50 to 70 jobs” – rather the number of companies that would be housed there.

“We have done some market testing,” she said later, reporting that “450 firms” in the region are interested.

The incubator is incorporated as a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that will be funded by both the public and private sectors.

The site of the incubator, whether it will be a converted building or a brand-new structure, and its design all must be worked out, to be determined by the steering committee that includes “nine CEOs or CEO-level executives,” Bagley said.

Mike Garvey, president of M 7 Technologies, Youngstown, and William Letson, president of the Trumbull 100, were present at yesterday’s press event in Ryan’s Warren office. So, too, were leaders from organized labor such as Gary Steinbeck, Sub-District 1 director of the United Steel Workers of America, and Mark Catello, business manager of Local 573 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

Tony Iarusso, executive director of Warren Redevelopment and Planning, “will be involved,” O’Brien promised.

“Our role is facilitation,” Bagley said, “walking the steering committee through the process.”

The steering committee will look closely at the Youngstown Business Incubator, which Ryan called “a successful model [that will help the committee] avoid landmines.” He praised its success, noting it has earned national attention and, he hopes, the Warren incubator will too.

O’Brien voiced great optimism about the incubator, which in conjunction with the main campus of Eastern Gateway Community College to be established in Warren, should boost his city’s economy. Bagley and Ryan expect a partnership will develop between the community college and incubator.

“From North Park [Avenue] to Main Street,” O’Brien predicted, “within the next year, all [vacant buildings] will be filled.”

After nearly 30 years of neglect from Washington and Columbus, he rejoiced in the funding for the incubator and the development of the community college campus.

O’Brien pronounced himself “thoroughly impressed by the connectivity” of the Ohio House of Representatives, Ohio Senate and Congress that allowed the public funding of the incubator.

Before founding NorTech, Bagley served as deputy secretary for the Technology Investment Office of the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development under Gov. Ed Rendell, says the biography provided by NorTech. There she “was responsible for the administration of several major state programs and initiatives, including the Life Sciences Greenhouse Initiative, the Ben Franklin Technology Partners, the Keystone Innovation Zone program, the research and development tax credit program and the manufacturing strategy.”

In that role, she managed “more than $1.7 billion in investments for Pennsylvania.”

Before that she was an investment banker in New York City where she was involved in oil and gas mergers and raising capital for various energy ventures.

She earned her baccalaureate in marketing at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Copyright 2009 The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.

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