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New England Clean Energy Council launches
Mass High Tech |  October 22, 2007

A merger of the Clean Energy Council and the New England Energy Innovation Collaborative (NEEIC), first reported by Mass High Tech in September, has been completed today with the launch of the New England Clean Energy Council.

The new, singular council's mission is to present one voice for the region's growing clean energy sector and to support development of a "world-class cluster of clean energy companies," say officials.

The New England Clean Energy Council will be lead by co-executive directors Annie Johnson and Nick d'Arbeloff. Johnson is a former senior vice president at Fidelity Investments and executive director of the Clean Energy Council. D'Arbeloff served as the executive director of the former NEEIC and is a former executive of Conjoin Inc. in Bedford.

Executive committee members of the new council include Bruce Anderson of Wilson TurboPower; Brad Bradshaw of the Mass Hydrogen Coalition; Rob Pratt of the Kendall Foundation; Hemant Taneja of General Catalyst Partners; and Mitch Tyson of Advanced Electron Beams. The council's board of directors includes more than 20 executives from a variety of organizations and companies in the region, including EnerNOC Inc., Protonex Inc., Rockport Capital, NSTAR and the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center.

With an expected growth rate of 20 percent per year, the New England clean energy community supports more than 14,400 jobs in Massachusetts alone, and is poised to become the 10th largest industry in the Bay State, according to a recent report from the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust and Global Insight.

The New England Clean Energy Council is expected to make its public debut at the Conference on Clean Energy, to be held at the Hynes Convention Center Oct. 29-30.