Sustainable Energy Portal

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This is a group project for the Spring '08 MGNT 4135 Project Management class with Professor Thacker.

1 Overview
- 1.1 Vision
2 Objectives
- 2.1 Mission
- 2.2 Initial Objectives
3 General Approach
- 3.1 Deliverables
4 Links
- 4.1 Resources
- 4.2 Articles

Overview

The pace of change in the clean energy technologies environment is clearly accelerating, and it is becoming more and more difficult to find the best among the many options. "'We are seeing a major shift in public opinion... moving clean technology across the great divide of cost, proven results, scale and maturity that has separated it from markets served by mainstream technologies.' High oil prices and growing concerns about the environment may drive more than $7 trillion of new investment in so-called clean energy technologies by 2030." [1]

Because clean energy seems to have incredible future potential in the market, and for SPSU, we believe we can use the resources we discovered in our initial investigation of the topic to promote a clearer understanding of the clean energy technology environment to help SPSU students and faculty understand where they can fit into this growing marketplace.

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Vision

Establishment of a research analysis firm linking the university with area businesses. Our website portal will serve as a collection of resources, and as a framework for SPSU students and faculty to use as a base for future applied research in sustainable energy solutions. Elective courses, costs of updating,

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Objectives

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Mission

Because the research has not yet been done, we can not tell from here whether or not we will be able to come up with any viable business propositions given all of our data. By building a maintainable framework on the SPSU Wiki and demonstrating how ROI analysis is done for potential projects, we hope not only our class, but future classes as well as SPSU faculty will be able to use and update the site so that potential clean energy projects can be more easily identified.

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Initial Objectives

Build the SPSU Wiki website to be a framework for research
Populate the framework with the below deliverables using the initial research (focused on residential use) to be done this semester
Conduct an initial ROI study on the most promising technology discovered to serve as a baseline so any future ROI studies can be easily posted on the SPSU Wiki
Consider opportunities with local businesses like Home Depot - consumer education, residential product sales
Consider branding opportunities in conjunction with the school's sustainability vision - STING, marketing campaign

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