North Bay Business Journal

  • Green Business: Clos Du Bois, Simi and Ascentia win energy awards

    August 9th, 2010

    Also: Hall recognized for ‘excellence in sustainable winegrowing’

  • Board reopens SCEIP

    July 16th, 2010

    SANTA ROSA – The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors directed staff to keep the Sonoma County Energy Independence Program (SCEIP) open after it was temporarily suspended.

  • Electrical contractor shifts to solar

    June 7th, 2010

    GRATON – Electrical and general contractor Warren Brown sees brighter prospects for his 14-year-old construction company in designing and installing solar electricity systems and is shifting his focus to that market.

  • Tax credits, rebates fuel solar

    May 24th, 2010

    NORTH BAY – The tax benefits that come along with solar projects and going green coupled with the environmental benefits can make it a desirable move for many businesses.

  • Long-time Napa firm rides heating trends

    March 1st, 2010

    NAPA – Warm Floors started as a solar thermal heating systems provider, long before solar heating became as familiar as the sun to Californians, and solar thermal is becoming a bigger part of the business again.

  • Sonoma gets energy funds

    February 22nd, 2010

    SONOMA COUNTY — Sonoma County was awarded $2,537,000 in State Energy Program funds from the California Energy Commission. The county’s application was ranked fourth highest, and it was one of only five applications funded statewide. It also received two additional awards through strategic partnerships.

  • $10.75 million for energy upgrades

    February 17th, 2010

    OAKLAND — Retrofit Bay Area, a retrofit program led by the Association of Bay Area Governments, was awarded $10.75 million for region-wide residential building energy retrofits from the California Energy Commission.

  • Sonoma County energy program getting attention in Washington, D.C.

    December 21st, 2009

    SONOMA COUNTY — Across the country, states are rushing to pass AB 811 energy-efficiency programs, buoyed by numbers coming out of California and particularly Sonoma County, the first to adapt AB 811 on a county-wide basis.

  • Kunde to install 50 solar thermal panels

    December 21st, 2009

    KENWOOD — Kunde Family Estate winery thinks it can cut energy use by more than three-quarters by allowing the sun to preheat hot water used for cleaning. The project is being eyed as a pilot financing venture to navigate hundreds of other Sonoma County wineries toward much less energy consumption for heat and refrigeration.

  • Study: Energy program could be jobs booster

    December 14th, 2009

    A Sonoma County program allowing for energy-efficient upgrades to buildings has already begun to create much needed contracting jobs, and according to a recent outlook report could create thousands more.

  • County looks to next fall for energy retrofit loan program

    November 23rd, 2009

    NAPA – Napa County homeowners who have been asking local planning officials when they can use innovative property-tax-bill-based financing for energy-efficiency projects similar to the program started in Sonoma County earlier this year likely will have to wait until next fall for the opportunity. County of Napa government officials are exploring options for extending such [...]

  • $21.5M in energy loan applications

    October 5th, 2009

    NORTH BAY – Cary Buxton, an estimator for Second Generation Roofing in Santa Rosa, has already seen the impact of the Sonoma County Energy Independence Program on his business.

  • Registration closes this week for conference covering new green regulations, resources for energy-efficient projects

    September 28th, 2009

    NORTH BAY – Registration for the Business Journal’s second-annual Going Green Conference closes this Friday, Oct. 2. The event will be Oct. 8 at the Doubletree Hotel in Rohnert Park. Two panel discussions will look at how new regulations and policy changes are impacting the construction and management of commercial buildings what resources are available to help prepare for compliance.

  • Efficient-cooling startup Core4 to launch

    June 22nd, 2009

    NAPA – Core4 Systems, which applied its energy-saving cooling solutions to Sonic.net’s server room in Santa Rosa, is ready to take its product to a huge and growing market.

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