News

Wind Projects in Eastern Colorado Awarded $1.5M
Release Date: 8/20/2005

Wind to Hydrogen Project Awarded
Release Date: 8/20/2005

Renaissance Opens New Office in Boise, Idaho
Release Date: 6/15/2005

About Rennaisance Engineering

Renaissance Engineering & Design specializes in developing renewable energy systems, such as Wind, Biomass, Solar, Hydro & Geothermal. We are experts at designing small & medium-scale distributed power generation projects. Our clients include private farmers, cooperatives, Native American reservations, businesses and other landowners. Our team combines expertise in engineering, power generation and business to provide complete solutions to our clients.

Our project experiences range from project management of an 18 kW, 90 module photovoltaic project to multi-million dollar hydroelectric systems. We are currently working on several medium-sized (~20 MW) wind projects on farms in Idaho; wind resource assessments at our clients' various sites in Idaho and northern Nevada; pelletization and biomass gasification of poultry waste and agricultural crops; and operation, maintenance, retrofitting & expanding Idaho’s first commercial wind farm. We successfully obtained four USDA grants in the summer of 2005 to build renewable energy projects. One of those projects is a hydrogen generation project powered by wind energy near Boise, ID. This project will consist of two 50 kW wind turbines that supply power to hydrolyzers which produce 99.99% pure hydrogen. The others are medium-scale on-farm wind projects in Colorado.

In addition to assisting clients with energy projects, Renaissance Engineering & Design is actively engaged in new product design, research & development. We provide specialty engineering to help our clients bring their new product ideas to the market.

We provide turnkey project solutions, assessing a given site’s resources and designing a renewable energy system that takes advantage of those resources. Our company strives to incorporate Leonardo da Vinci’s principles of “Virtutem, Forma, Decorat” (Merit, Beauty, Honor) in developing solutions that have value and make sense. We are experienced with all types of renewable energy systems and can therefore take advantage of whatever natural resources exist. In short, we design the system to work with the environment not against it. We carryout everything from researching the available natural resources and gathering data, designing the best system to match those resources, and overseeing construction, operation, and maintenance of the renewable energy system.

Established in 2000, Renaissance Engineering & Design provides small company attention to detail and customer commitment while leveraging long-term relationships, business alliances, and experience with major manufacturers and distributors of equipment in specific categories including: renewable energy; electrical generation, cogeneration, and interconnection (reciprocating diesel and gas engine sets, gas turbines, microturbines, fuel cells); switchgear (open and closed transfer); HVAC (boilers and chillers); and various other energy products and services.

Our knowledge and experience in designing eco-friendly, renewable energy systems makes our company an indispensable asset for any project that seeks to utilize available energy resources without sacrificing environmental integrity.

OUR TEAM

Brian Jackson, P.E., C.E.M., M.B.A. - President

Founder and President Brian Jackson, P.E., C.E.M., M.B.A., combines 14 years of mechanical engineering experience in electricity generation and project management with a master's degree in Business Administration to provide effective consulting and system design services that are relevant to a client's bottom line through increased productivity and profits or significant savings. He is also a Certified Energy Manager with the American Association of Energy Engineers and spent 11 years working for Idacorp/Idaho Power Company in the field of power generation. Several of those years focused on various types of renewable energy sources including multi-megawatt hydro-electric power plant construction, photovoltaics, wind, and biomass. He also spent several years working with commercial and industrial customers in the areas of distributed generation and cogeneration.

Mr. Jackson has experience in conducting feasibility studies and writing several successful grant applications for internal projects as well as outside clients. He also has written various business plans for corporate and private ventures. The latest projects involve commercial wind farm analysis and feasibility studies. He has experience in power generation interconnection issues as well as generator and engine operation. He has been in key leadership roles in small startup subsidiary companies spun off from the electric utility during his role there. He was the key Idaho Power representative managing a business study including complete feasibility and business planning for a distributed/isolated electric power generation business opportunity in Indonesia for villages and off-grid communities during 1995 and 1996 involving several business trips as well as field work. Mr. Jackson has been involved in other startup business ventures including retail sales and residential construction projects. He has managed multiple employees and supervised contractors and subcontractors.