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Chamber: EDF Renewable Energy top Rio Vista business
Brian Sarantos is a project developer with EDF Renewable Energy. The company was named Rio Vista Chamber of Commerce’s Business of the Year. (Brad Zweerink/Daily Republic)
RIO VISTA — Ever since an AT&T commercial prominently featured Rio Vista last year, the town has been known for its windmills and sheep.
EDF Renewable Energy is partly to thank for that — at least for the windmills.
EDF Renewable Energy, formerly known as enXco, brought its wind plants to Rio Vista in the mid-1980s. The global company develops and operates wind plants Shiloh II, Shiloh III and Shiloh IV out of its Montezuma Hills office.
Shiloh IV introduced 50 new energy-generating white turbines to the Montezuma Hills in September 2012. About 800 turbines already stand in the area at various wind farms that have various owners.
This year, the company was named the Rio Vista Chamber of Commerce’s Business of the Year.
Chamber of Commerce executive director Karen Smith said EDF Renewable Energy was chosen “because of their contribution to the schools, training in high schools . . . and their overall community service.”
EDF Renewable Energy provided a grant of $150,000 to help start a green jobs program for Rio Vista High School students. The program teaches students about renewable energy and about how to develop career pathways for either job training or work opportunities in the field of green energy.
This is the second year the program has been at the high school. EDF Renewable Energy provides the class with guest speakers, curriculum development and sometimes takes the students on field trips.
EDF Renewable Energy project manager Brian Sarantos said the company was honored to be chosen as Rio Vista’s Business of the Year.
“As a long-term community partner, we are invested in Rio Vista and Solano County, and believe corporate partners build a stronger community,” he said. “We are pleased to partner with the Rio Vista Chamber of Commerce in building a strong business community.”
For more information about EDF Renewable Energy, visit www.edf-re.com.
Reach Heather Ah San at 427-6977 or hahsan@dailyrepublic.net. Follow her on Twitter at www.twitter.com/HeatherMalia.
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Rich GiddensFebruary 26, 2013 - 9:10 am
Heather--shame on you! You are painting a false picture of green energy economics. Those wind turbines are not big job creators. I worked out there for a year and most of the workers are here TDY from Denmark or out of state. Those units are not big job creators for Solano County. Meanwhile, what could be creating jobs and a boom economy is ignored----500 billion barrels of Monterey Shale oil that probably won't even require horizontal drilling or fracking to extract. Do a story on the potential of California's treasure worth 25 trillion dollars at current oil market prices. Most Californians are totally unaware the Rx they need is right under their feet!
Reply |Solano Business IncubatorFebruary 26, 2013 - 1:18 pm
Glad Rio Vista government is at least moving forward. Doing more green is better than less green.
Reply |RichFebruary 26, 2013 - 2:54 pm
So how's that hamster on a treadmill using methadrine for fuel engine working out for you there Mr. inventor? Can it be upscaled to a model that uses all of Vallejo and Stockton's indolent layabout citizens yet?
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