Adjacent to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo., Global Energy Park is in pre-construction mode to develop what its developer says will be a world-class cleantech hub for industry firms and research institutions.
The envisioned public-private project is the result of a multi-year collaboration between the State of Colorado and the U.S. Energy Dept, among others. The lab, known as NREL, is a unit of the department. “Because it is federal, state and local, it’s quite the partnership,” says Lu Cordova, project executive director and advisor to Colorado Gov. Jared Polis. “We all work very closely together on this.”