Jim Miller's List: SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES

The Eco-Industrial Park will be home to medium to heavy industrial tenants. These
  heavy power users, solar manufacturers, for instance, will see a significant savings in start-up costs by gathering compatible alternative energy companies in order to share the traditionally high cost of permitting and infrastructure. This results in lower initial costs for each tenant in the park. The synergy between companies and processes within the park also creates lower operating costs. For example, the off-take product and by-products (synthesis gas, heat, process steam, inexpensive electricity, ethanol, glycerin, distiller’s grains, etc.) of one technology can be the “feedstock” of another. This closed loop approach with the close proximity of plants reduces transportation and supply costs.

The Academic Village and R&D Campus is the nerve center of The Energy Independence Park at Destiny. The campus provides a venue for government, universities and non-profit organizations to partner with for-profit companies to advance the state of energy technology while producing the alternative fuels and renewable energy needed for energy independence. One of the most important functions of the Academic Village is the focus on training and certification for the new Clean Tech jobs that will be created at Destiny. The Village will also have a mix of permanent and temporary housing, along with a hotel, conference and training center.