IMPACT NAPA Napa 'best-positioned' local economy...
(09-01-2008)
IMPACT NAPA
Napa 'best-positioned' local economy
WINERIES BOLSTER OUTLOOK; PANEL TACKLES SUSTAINABILITY, WATER, HOUSING BUDGET ISSUES
Monday, September 1, 2008
BY JEFF QUACKENBUSH
STAFF REPORTER
The following was taken from the North Bay Business Journal as they report on the "Impact Napa" event held at the Napa Marriott. (Récolte Energy is responsible for developing the solar projects at the Wolfe Center and the Gasser Building mentioned below.)
...Gasser Sustainable Napa project
Mr. Peatman discussed Sustainable Napa Valley, an initiative started two years ago by the Gasser Foundation and organizations such as Napa Valley Vintners, Pacific Gas & Electric and the Napa County Transportation Planning Agency. The goals of the program are to help nonprofit groups reduce their energy use and employ more renewable energy and to help educate policymakers and businesses in the valley.
The foundation tapped green builder Healthy Buildings USA of Napa to audit 10 nonprofits for energy efficiency to figure the appropriate size of a photovoltaic or other alternative energy system.
The furthest along in the pilot program with 10 nonprofits is The Wolfe Center. After efficiency upgrades, the group was recommended to install a 40-kilowatt solar power system that would cost $189,000. Gasser gave a $20,000 grant, with the rest funded via a 15-year power purchase agreement from SolarCity of Foster City at $945 a month.
Other Gasser projects include a $1.6 million solar power project at the Gasser Building, a new certified-green Mechanics Bank branch office at Soscol Avenue and Silverado Trail and the pending 155-acre project west and north of the existing South Napa Marketplace retail center at West Imola and Soscol avenues.
"The project could come out of the [Napa River] flood plain in 2009," Mr. Peatman said of the Gasser North I and Gasser South portions of the project. It is approved for 12 screens, 500 homes and 120,000 square feet of commercial space. A third portion would await construction of a creek crossing.
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