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A “center of innovation excellence for renewable and sustainable energy in Georgia”?



In a recent message, Brad Lofton wrote

“we plan to move on now and focus our attention on new job and tax revenue creating projects.”

OK, what are those projects?

Back in September Brad Lofton told me that VLCIA had
(beyond whatever Wiregrass LLC is doing)

“other renewable green energy projects”
,
which he then
refused to describe.

When I asked about these projects at

the 21 Dec 2010 VLCIA board meeting,

board member Gary Minchew responded that VLCIA couldn’t talk about sensitive
negotiations, but they didn’t want to be secretive.
Earlier I had been talking to the fellow sitting to my left
about his green energy project and whether VLCIA was going to move
forward on it.
He pointed out to the board that he and I were facebook
friends and linked on LinkedIn.
He’s sending me some information; more on that when I get it.
Meanwhile, I wonder why the board wouldn’t talk about his project,
and I remain dubious that VLCIA has any other
“renewable green energy projects”.

In that same meeting,

Col. Ricketts and Brad Lofton went on for some time about
solar energy,
saying they were answering citizen concerns.

As one of the people who has asked them most frequently about solar energy,
I have to say

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What’s the Industrial Authority’s Plan?

Appended is my LTE in the VDT today.
I’ve added links. -jsq



What is the Industrial Authority’s plan to bring in real clean jobs?


MAGE SOLAR is hiring for the first of 350 jobs

in its photovoltaic (PV) solar manufacturing plant in Dublin, Georgia, with half
the population of Valdosta, in Laurens County, with half the
population of Lowndes County. They’ve parlayed their position
between the Atlanta airport and the Savannah seaport for
many new clean jobs.

Suniva of Norcross’s second PV plant with its 500 jobs
went to Michigan.
Saginaw Valley calls itself Solar Valley and collaborates
with governments, academia, and industry, winning thousands of clean
jobs in wind and solar manufacturing and generating plants.


The Saginaw News remarked (7 Nov 2010):

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Mage Solar cuts ribbon in Dublin, Georgia



According to

a press release on their site:

Ravensburg (Germany), 27th September 2010 – MAGE SOLAR, part of the
globally operating MAGE GROUP, in conjunction with Governor Sonny Perdue
and the City of Dublin County of Laurens Development Authority, conducted
its official ribbon cutting ceremony on Wednesday, September 22, 2010. The
highly anticipated event marked the company’s official move of its new
North American headquarters to Dublin, Georgia. Dr. Markus Feil, CEO of
MAGE INDUSTRIE HOLDING AG headquartered in Germany; its Chairman of the
Board, Kurt Rauch, as well as CEO of MAGE SOLAR GMBH, Norbert Philipp,
also from Germany and other US company officials and employees of MAGE
SOLAR, along with key community, political and a multitude of local,
regional and international business leaders attended the momentous event.

That would be Dublin, with half the population of Valdosta, in Laurens County,
with half the population of Lowndes County.

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