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Sector: Agricultural Function: Evaluation, Implementation, Marketing, Planning, Training, Emerging Technology
ricardo amon
university of california
2/15/2012
Terrance Anthony
Zagori
Traci Brock
Wasco Electric Coop
Kelly Carlson
Conservation; Customer Service
Kittitas PUD
1/30/2014
Jess Coykendall
Energy Industries
Anne Curran
Sr. Program Manager
Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance
8/25/2015
Michael Daukoru
Senior Consulting Engineer
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E)
8/13/2014
Jan Dean
Conservation Specialist
Fall River Rural Electric Cooperative
kevin fischer
Energy Efficiency Advisor
Benton PUD
Robert Hall
Marketing, Energy Efficiency
Bonneville Power Administration
5/1/2012
Greg Hansen
Strategy • research • marketing consultancy
GQG | strategy • research • marketing
Charles Hillyer
Research Associate, Dept. of Biological & Ecological Engineering
Oregon State University
Vic Hubbard
Energy Services
Franklin PUD
Anna Kelly
Colorado Energy Office
3/29/2018
joe marcotte
Energy Efficiency
CLEAResult
Veronica Marzilli
Corporate Marketing and Communications
NEEA
Talia Mathews
Librarian
WSU Energy Program Library
6/27/2012
Willians Mendes
Professor
Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Mato Grosso
8/1/2016
Barrett Mooney
HydroBio ARS
8/1/2012
Kathy Moore
Energy Efficiency Program Coordinator
Umatilla Electric Cooperative
Ken Nichols
EQL Energy
9/14/2015
Tom Osborn
Mechanical Engineer
Bonneville Power
Andy Paul
Energy Engineer (Commercial & Industrial)
Avista Corporation
Rob Penney
Energy Efficiency Engineering
WSU Energy Program
chris pollow
Energy Efficiency Engineer
Idaho Power Company
Mark Rehley
Senior Manager, Emerging Technology / Product Management
Vern Rice
Energy Specialist
RAC, LLC
Whitney Rideout
Sustainability Manager
Oregon Association of Nurseries
Robert Russell
Energy Efficiency Professional
Navigant Consulting, Inc.
Kathleen Sullivan
Energy Efficient Lighting and Horticultural Technology
Forever Green Indoors
4/7/2015
Carolyn VanWinkle
Marketing Communications Consultant
VanWinkle Communications
6/14/2013
Dan Villalobos
Energy Efficiency Representative
Robert Wallace
Certified Energy Manager & Executive Director @ WyEast RCD. Current Mayor - City of Dufur
Wy'East RCD
Geoff Wickes
Product Manager Emerging Technologies
Eric Wilson
Program Manager, Trade Ally Networks
Evergreen Consulting Group
Deb Young
NorthWestern Energy
Jack Zeiger
Energy Conservation Engineer
Tacoma Power
Greta Zink
DSM Program Manager
Avista
4/16/2012
VFD for Irrigation Pumping Stations Tech Paper
Posted by Robert Wallace | 2/09/2012
This is a great technical paper about VFDs for Irrigation Pumping Stations, written by USDA. Just about everything you need to k...
Agriculture LESA demonstration results
Posted by Tom Osborn | 12/07/2015
Initial results of the agriculture irrigation LESA research and demonstration with WSU and U of I appear promising. This center p...
Irrigated Ag and results of LESA demonstration
New Agricultural Efficiency Technologies
Posted by Rob Penney | 6/30/2015
Big Bertha gets Variable Frequency Drive and Capital Press talks about it...
Posted by Robert Wallace | 7/27/2011
Big Bertha gets a Variable Frequency Drive....a 350hp deep well turbine pump in Central Oregon has new VFD installed. This upgrade wil...
Three Sisters Irrigation VFD Project x 2
Three Sisters Irrigation with the help of Wy'East RCD was able to pool funding to make VFD and Mainline upgrade a reality for the Hurtley Pu...
NW Industrial Energy Efficiency Summit Presentations 2011
Posted by Ben Fowler | 1/25/2012
Most of the presentations from the 2011 NW Industrial Energy Efficiency Summit are now available. The summit was help in Portland, ...
2012 NRCS-EQIP Energy Initiative for Agriculture
NRCS/USDA has a new Energy Conservation program for Agriculture. Applications are currently being accepted. This program include...
Oregon Dept of Energy -- Recovery Act Funds Help Oregon Agriculture Save Energy
Posted by Robert Wallace | 5/25/2012
Oregon Agriculture makes up 12% of the state's economy. Oregon Dept of Energy enables Recovery Act funding to assist local grower and ...
Small/Rural Utility EE Program Successes [Efficiency Exchange 2014]
Posted by Melinda Eden | 5/07/2014
EE managers from small/rural utilities share a few ideas for success
Thinking About A Clean Energy Project? Check out the 2014 Harvesting Clean Energy Conference Feb. 4-6.
Posted by Melinda Eden | 1/17/2014
BPA: Looking for a Few Good Fields
Posted by Tom Osborn | 1/15/2014
BPA and WSU are looking for a few good fields....to demonstrate LEPA (Low Energy Precision Application) in 2014. A center pivot irri...
Low Energy Precision Application (LEPA) Irrigation
Posted by Rob Penney | 4/17/2013
NEEA's Ag Irrigation Initiative Datasheet
Posted by Lori Rhodig | 11/28/2012
See what NEEA is researching and demonstrating for center pivot irrigation decision support to save energy and water in the NW!
Save 30% w/ Optimizing VFDs, Wy'East Awarded National Conservation Innovation Grant
Posted by Robert Wallace | 10/13/2012
Wy'East RC&D was recently awarded a National Conservation Innovation grant from NRCS to work with Variable Frequency Drives (VFD). ...
OPB - Oregon Farmers Saving Water As State Faces Challenge
Posted by Robert Wallace | 1/05/2012
Artcle mentions Oregon's water shortfall, talked about The Dalles Irrigation District and Wasco Co using improved irrigation and SIS technol...
Facebook unveils Energy Efficiency Secrets
Posted by Ben Fowler | 4/12/2011
Facebook's new data center in Prineville, OR, will benefit from the Open Compute Project (http://opencompute.org/), a design philosophy for ...
Managing Light in Dairy Barns for Increased Milk Production
Posted by Lori Rhodig | 7/18/2012
PNW 551 September 2001 Authors: A. Buyserie, M. Gamroth, and G. Dahl Milk production can be increased by managing dairy cows’ expo...
Efficiency in lighting of Dairy Barns for better milk production and energy efficiency
Multi-Location Project: Site-Specific Irrigation Management and Water Use Efficiency Tools (SSIMWUET)
Posted by Lori Rhodig | 5/03/2012
This is a short (7 slides) presentation that was shared by Steve Evett from the USDA Ag Research Services with NEEA. OSU, and Irrinet on 5/3...
NEUTRON PROBE CALIBRATION FOR DETERMINING SOIL MOISTURE by Jac le Roux
Posted by Lori Rhodig | 5/01/2012
In simple terms, a neutron moisture probe measures water by bouncing neutrons off hydrogen molecules and counting the number of hits ...
WSU Extension Offers New Irrigation Website
Posted by Robert Wallace | 2/13/2012
This website is dedicated to improving the understanding of irrigation planning and management in order to increase grower profitability and...
Energy Efficiency Videos - Freeze Fries and Plant Nerds (Solutions Stories Launch)
Posted by Aaron Cohen | 8/11/2011
Wy'East RC&D Council, Redmond Oregon - Facebook page
Posted by Bill Mintiens | 5/26/2011
Want to know what's happening, agricultural energy efficiency-wise, in Central and North Central Oregon? This is the place to look!
Blimp, infrared camera used to fine-tune cotton irrigation
Posted by Mark Rehley | 7/25/2011
This is an interesting article about how University of Georgia researchers are using a small blimp to conduct a long-term study to detect dr...
PlantLab - Vertical LED farming
Posted by Mark Rehley | 7/14/2011
This is an interesting article about indoor farming of high value crops using tuned LED lighting and tightly controlled environmental condit...
Emerging Technology Webinar Presentation - Agricultural Irrigation and Refrigeration Operator Certification
Posted by Mark Rehley | 1/11/2012
This presentation was given by Geoff Wickes with NEEA's emerging technology group and Lori Rhodig with NEEA's industrial group. It hig...
Boardman Biofuels
Posted by Tom Osborn | 1/27/2012
Interesting article about a new biomass plant to be constructed in Boardman Oregon
Capital Press LEPA article
Posted by Tom Osborn | 1/13/2012
Article mentions how WSU and vendors are partnering with electric utilities and growers to demonstrate Low Energy Precision Agriculture (LEP...
2012 World Ag Expo
Posted by Lori Rhodig | 12/27/2011
-- Largest Ag Equip Show in the World!Who is exhibiting or attending? Geoff and I will be there. Does anyone know if there will be an...
Agricultural case study - Big Bertha pump
Posted by Dana Madison | 10/05/2011
Agricultural producers save energy and water when they make upgrades to their irrigation equipment. In this video, you will see how two Ag p...
2011 Farwest Show for Nursery & Garden Center Wholesale and Retail Professionals -- Aug. 25-27 -- OR Convention Center
Posted by Lori Rhodig | 8/23/2011
Workshops, presentations, TheYear of the Conifer, daily seminars, 720 exhibitors(noon-6pm), From Pigskins to Pruners! Hear Hall of...
BPA encourages farmers to get water efficient
Posted by Ben Fowler | 7/18/2011
From East Oregonian- 7/16/11. "The BPA has contracted with resource conservation and development councils throughout the Northwest working w...
Public Utility and RC&D Map
Posted by Dana Madison | 8/12/2011
This map shows an overlay of RC&D territories to northwest public power utility territories.
NEEA's Agricultural Characterization of the NW for Energy Efficiency in Emerging Technology, Savings, and Opportunities FINAL REPORT
Posted by Lori Rhodig | 8/10/2011
The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) funded this report to gather key market intelligence to support its agricultural energy effi...
Summary Report (18 pgs) of NEEA's Ag Characterization Study of NW for Energy Efficiency, Emerging Technology, Opportunities
This is an 18 page summary of the NEEA-funded report (172 pages) to gather key market intelligence to support its agricultural ene...
Planning and Managing Irrigation in Oregon
Posted by Robert Wallace | 8/01/2011
Basic Irrigation 101 for small acreage throughout Oregon. Publication by the Oregon NRCS aimed at helping smaller growers understand h...
Agriculture and Energy in Oregon by Oregon Dept of Ag
Oregon Dept of Ag's Stephanie Page compiles report on "Agriculture and Energy in Oregon". This paper summarizes the status of energy u...
Irrigation Efficiency
Posted by Rob Penney | 5/12/2011