Brunswick Landing Renewable Energy Center
E2Tech is partnering with MRRA to develop part of the recently decommissioned Brunswick Naval Air Station, now a business park called Brunswick Landing, into a renewable energy park. The Renewable Energy Center is envisioned to be a center of excellence for renewable energy research, development and demonstration and a world-renowned living laboratory for integrated R&D, manufacturing, and operation of “next generation” clean energy technologies. As it develops, the center will be poised to offer services that will complement and integrate with other services available through the New England Clean Tech Corridor. Inspired by the University of California at Irvine’s Research Power Park, the center will be an incubator for renewable energy businesses to relocate to Maine and conduct R&D and light manufacturing. The center is still in the conceptual phase but ideas for development include:
- Using the park’s existing infrastructure as a plug-and-play environment for clean tech and energy firms to test the viability of their product/service by attaching its product to the park’s grid and supply power to other firms located there
- Renewable energy research, development and demonstration
- A model that combines energy technology business operations that combines energy technology with on-site production of energy
- Dynamic power demonstration and production facilities that allow for components to be easily swapped out when new technologies evolve
- Cutting edge research center for alternative energy development
- Economically and environmentally sustainable for alternative green energy facilities and clean industries
- Incorporation of sustainable green growth in the property redevelopment
