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Home My WebLink About1.B RED Renaissance Eng Brochure Oct08 lr2792 Desert Wind Road Sandra Cardon, BSME, MSATSC, EIT Oasis, Idaho 83647-5020 Mechanical Engineer 208-908-2500 Atmospheric Scientist www.Clever-Ideas.com SandraCardon@Clever-Ideas.com COMPANY DESCRIPTION: Renaissance Engineering & Design, PLLC is a full -service engineering company providing consulting, system design, analysis, and feasibility studies. Established in the year 2000, Renaissance Engineering & Design provides services across a broad range of disciplines and sciences. The company strives to incorporate Leonardo da Vinci’s principles of “Virtutem, Forma, Decorat”(Merit, Beauty, Honor) in developing solutions that have value and make sense. We are experts at designing small & medium-scale renewable energy and distributed power generation projects from several kilowatts to several megawatts. Our clients include farmers and ranchers, cooperatives, Native American Indian Tribes, businesses and other project developers. Renaissance Engineering & Design specializes in: Feasibility Studies and Grant Application Assistance for renewable energy projects of all kinds in any location Renewable Energy Distributed Power Generation system design and project management (wind, solar, hydro, anaerobic biomass digestion, biomass gasification, and geothermal) Electrical Generation, Cogeneration, and Interconnection products and services (diesel and gas engine sets, gas turbines, microturbines, fuel cells, hydrogen). The greatest values on projects can typically be achieved through strategically targeting specific elements with the greatest payback potential. Renaissance Engineering & Design is committed to seeking this greatest payback for customers through the beauty of simplicity and efficiency. Whether incorporating new technology or evaluating existing systems for improvement, this goal is always present. RENEWABLE ENERGY AND SUSTAINABILITY: We provide complete solutions, assessing a given site’s resources and designing a renewable energy system that takes advantage of those resources. We are experienced with all types of energy generation technologies and the integration into a simple or multi-faceted solution. In short, we design the system to work with the environment not against it. We carry out everything from researching the available natural resources and gathering data to designing the best system to match those resources. We deliver the solutions with structured, efficient project management services as well as offering packages for on -going operation, remote monitoring and maintenance of the renewable energy systems. Our team experiences range from project management of an 18 kW photovoltaic project to engineering on multi-million dollar wind and hydroelectric projects. Current projects include several medium-sized (~20 MW) wind energy projects on farms and sites in Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, and Montana; assessing the wind resource at the Duck Valley Indian Reservation and also for Clark County in Idaho & Nevada; Prior work was done on pelletization and biomass gasification of poultry waste and agricultural crops. We successfully obtained 11 grants for our clients over the past few years for clients to build renewable energy projects. These are in addition to several previous grants. One of those projects is a hydrogen generation project powered by wind energy near Boise, ID. This project consists of two 50 kW wind turbines that supply power to hydrolyzers which produce 99.999% pure hydrogen. Renaissance was the project engineer on that development. That project is fully operational and produced almost a dozen full tanker trucks of hydrogen during the rest of the year after the project kickoff in early 2006. We wrote three other successful grants in 2007 for MW Scale wind projects in Oregon. The other grants in 2005 were for medium-scale on-farm wind projects 1.5 to 2 MW each in Colorado. In 2006 we installed multiple anemometers across the state in conjunction with assessing the wind resource for the Couer D’Alene tribes in Northern Idaho and in support of a grant project awarded in late 2006 to assess the wind resource in the Camas Prairie for farmers in that region utilizing 5 strategically located towers. Our knowledge and experience in designing sustainable renewable energy systems makes our company an indispensable asset for any project that seeks to utilize available energy resources without sacrificing environmental integrity. Engineering Consulting Services: Wind resource assessment (anemometer data collection & analysis); Renewable Energy System Design, Inventions, Product Design & Development, Prototyping, Simulation, Feasibility Studies, Business Planning, Financial Modeling & Analysis, Energy Evaluations. Field Work: Wind resource assessment (anemometer installations), Calibration, Troubleshooting and Instrument Setup/Installation Work, Energy Monitoring Installations and Energy Efficiency Surveys, General Data Collection, Analysis & Reporting. CONSULTING PROJECTS –(2001-2008): Wind and power production forecasting over actual wind farm, joint research project with Boise State University, Bonneville Power Administration grant NSEDC wind-thermal project, deploy a 10kW vertical axis wind turbine in two Alaskan villages NREL Idaho Wind for Schools state facilitator, wind energy education integration by erecting small wind turbines at various schools across Idaho Three new rural Oregon Wind Farms: Project engineering, feasibility, development 1.8 MW $3.6M each project, Three $500k USDA grant awards for the separate projects. Assessing the Wind Resource in Camas Prairie Grangeville Idaho, involving 5 anemometer installations and resource comparison across the entire region USDA Value Added Grant $24,000 grant $48,000 project Project Engineering Wind to Hydrogen Commercial Demonstration Project Two Wind Turbines and Two Proton Exchange Membrane Hydrolyzers –Construction Completed Early 2006 -$900,000 Total Project. Feasibility Study: Assessing the Wind Resource on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation for the Shoshone Paiute Tribes in Southern Idaho $36,000 Contract 3 Farmer Owned Wind Turbine Feasibility Studies: USDA Grant Awards, Eastern Colorado, $1,500,000 total grants Special Grant Feasibility Study: Hydrogen Generation with Two Wind Turbines $200,000 grant application assistance Anemometer Installations and Wind Study Resource Evaluations, Early Project Development Assistance 30MW Wind Farm Buhl Idaho 3 Research Projects involving $140,000 in Grants for Biomass Gasification, Control and Automation, Pelletizing Crop Residue, Developing Pre-production prototype downdraft gasifier unit. Small Hydropower Feasibility Site Study Baker Oregon and Hagerma n Idaho Wind Resource Compilation and Grant Assistance for Shoshone Bannock Tribes in Blackfoot Idaho Tall Tower installation assistance 250’ and resource compilation for 200MW Wind Farm Albion Idaho Net Metering 20kW Wind Project, $10,000 grant -$40,000 project, Engineering Assistance Energy analysis and Generation Evaluation Wind Farm Hagerman Idaho: 3 separate clients and projects 10 to 40 MW in size Early Project Development and Grant Application Burley Idaho: Farmer Owned Wind Project 1.5MW, $500,000 grant -$2.6 Million Project Feasibility Analysis for Commercial Wind Farm Burley Idaho: $20,000 Grant -$40,000 Project Geothermal Generation Plant FlowTest Metering and Specification Assistance Raft River: US Geothermal Project 10+ MW generation Feasibility Study, PPA Negotiation, Early Development Idaho Falls: Farmer Owned Wind Project 1.5MW to 18MW, $400,000 grant -$1.6m Million Project Feasibility Study and Early Project Development Idaho Falls: Farmer Owned Wind Project 1.5MW to 10.5 MW, $500,000 grant -$2.5 Million Project Multiple Farm and Ranch Site Analysis Work Multiple Anemometer Installations and Data Analysis Work across Idaho, 20m-50m+ Brian D. Jackson, PE, MBA, BSME, CEM –President Project Design Engineering, Business Consulting and Feasibility Evaluation Brian Jackson is a Professional Engineer with a master’s degree in business administration. He combines 18 years of engineering experience in consulting, electrical generation, and project management. He is also a Certified Energy Manager with the American Association of Energy Engineers and spent 11 years working for Idacorp/Idaho Power Company in the field of power generation.He has spent several years as a utility generation engineer focusing on renewable energy sources including multi-megawatt hydro-electric power plant construction, photovoltaics, wind, and biomass.In addition, he has worked with commercial and industrial customers in the areas of distributed generation and cogeneration. Mr. Jackson is a principal of Western Community Energy started in fall 2007 www.westerncommunityenergy.com and is involved with several wind farm development projects with that company. Sandra Cardon, BSME, MSATSC, EIT Mechanical Engineer/Atmospheric Scientist Anemometer Installation and Documentation, Data Analysis, Wind Project Layout Analysis, Wind for Schools, Reports and Documentation, Client Networking, Grants and Proposals Sandra Cardon is an Engineer in Training with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering with a German minor and a Master’s Degree in Atmospheric Science. Mrs. Cardon has worked as a DOE fellowship intern and a consultant at Siemens Power Generation in Orlando, FL and as an adjunct professor at Boise State University in Boise, ID. She was an invited lecturer on the topic of renewable energy at the Fachhochschule Nordhausen's International Project W eek 2006 in Nordhausen, Germany. Since signing on with Renaissance Engineering & Design,Mrs. Cardon has been focused on wind resource assessment and is involved with several research projects.She has been trained in wind data modeling and wind farm design. She was involved in a major wind project analysis for Nome, Alaska in 2008. She is the project manager for a wind- thermal project incorporating vertical axis wind turbines to be deployed in two Alaskan villages to help offset extreme heating costs in 2008. Over the next year, she will also be involved in a wind energy forecasting research project with Boise State University.