What is the Southwest Virginia Clean Energy
R&D Center?
A new 14,000 square foot center to be located next to the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center in Abingdon, VA. The center is being designed as a green facility and will take advantage of many state-of-the-art energy systems and construction techniques to demonstrate the use and commercialization of the technologies. In addition, the center will house research labs and faculty offices, state-of-the-art classrooms with video capabilities, conference rooms, and administrative offices.
This location allows the R&D efforts of universities and industry to be where the natural resources are extracted, used in the production of energy, and by-products and waste are created and managed. We provide a unique field research facility for researchers to see energy in its entire evolution cycle and to be able to measure and record their impact on the process.
The center is focusing on our nation’s
energy needs through applied commercialized research, policy and
regulation assessment, and specific workforce development needs with a
focus on coal and natural gas related opportunities.
Our vision is to become a regional, national, and international center for clean energy field research that unites academics and industry in the development of immediate and future clean and independent energy
improvements.
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Why is this center’s success important?
Provides field labs for energy research close to natural resources for
energy production, carbon capture, and
conservation.
Provides a center where industry and
university R&D programs can work
collaboratively.
Provides researchers with an
environment that is conducive to the
application and
commercialization of
energy R&D projects.
Provides opportunities for
investment in new energy technology-based companies.
Provides job opportunities for Southwest
Virginia.
Provides a center focused on building regional energy self-reliance.
Edwin O. Rogers
Director
276-619-4396
erogers@swcenter.edu
How Do I Help?
You can help by making a three-year financial
commitment to the Southwest Virginia Higher
Education Center Foundation to the Start-Up
Operating Capital Campaign for the Clean
Energy R&D Center.
Donations to this campaign are to an IRS
approved 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Your Donation is protected - it will be
managed by the Foundation, the Executive
Director of the Southwest Virginia Higher
Education Center and an Independent
Advisory Board for the Southwest Virginia
Clean Energy R&D Center which will
consist of community, industry and university
representatives.
Southwest Virginia Clean Energy R&D Center
One Partnership Circle
P.O. Box 1987
Abingdon, VA 24212
276.619.4305 |