Denver Metro Chamber Invests In Rooftop Solar and Wind

Longtime advocates of renewable energy, the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce has installed a rooftop wind and solar system on its headquarters building. The system combines solar panels with a small wind turbine.

In a short video accompanying the Post story, Chamber CEO Kelly Brough says that the chamber is delighted to help a local company — Quantum Renewable Energy — prove the viability of new technologies such as urban wind.

Denver is the latest example of local chambers serving as clean energy leaders. For a full report on local chambers and energy innovation, read “Local Chambers as Change Agents,” a comprehensive review published by CICE in May.

The Denver Post article with video of Chamber President and CEO can be found here. The website for the Denver Metro chamber is here.

Maintaining a Competitive Advantage in St. Paul, MN

The St. Paul Area Chamber of Commerce is one of the newest members of Chambers for Innovation and Clean Energy. To help its member companies reduce their energy use and stay competitive, the chamber selected energy innovation as one of its key issues.

“Every single business is a consumer of energy resources,” said Matt Kramer, Chamber President and CEO. “Keeping energy costs low puts each of our member businesses in a better place to make the investments to be competitive, to put them in a better position for success.”

Kramer says that his Chamber will never be an expert on energy and that’s why he was excited to find Chambers for Innovation and Clean Energy. “We position our Chamber as trusted information brokers,” Kramer added. “We’re going to find the information that our members can trust.”