Under the leadership of Southwest Indiana WIRED, Project GREEN (Growing a Regional Energy Employment Network) has studied and identified Southwest Indiana’s assets, needs, and opportunities in the energy industry.

The assessment led to the development of strategies that hone in on the specific activities that will have the greatest impact on growing an energy economy in Southwest Indiana. The core initiatives of this strategy include:

Energy Efficiency
Sustainable communities demonstrate energy leadership and attract new investment. Southwest Indiana is poised to become an energy leader by implementing a broad energy efficiency improvement program benefiting students, workers, consumers, and business owners.

Energy Manufacturing
Our strong advanced manufacturing base and key anchor companies make the region ideal for component manufacturing opportunities in the new economy, including the wind, nuclear, and solar industries.

Technology Center
New energy technologies afford great promise for job growth. With high quality academic institutions and training organizations throughout the region, a major center targeted at education, training, and demonstration in an array of energy areas would have a major impact.

Advanced Coal Technology Leadership
At the same time that the “new energy” economy is growing, there will continue to be a need for traditional energy, generated in large part by coal. Southwest Indiana, long a source of coal, can also become a source of the solutions to the environmental challenges associated with the use of coal.