SED Paints Albany Green

Albany, NY – Sustainable Energy Developments, Inc. (SED) has invaded Albany. Windustry’s Community Wind Energy 2008 conference is being held at the Empire State Plaza and the green and white of SED is everywhere: on the banners, on the posters, on the participant bags and gifts and most importantly on presentation slides.

Windustry, a Minnesota based company, was founded by Lisa Daniels in 1995. She continues to serve as the Executive Director of the non-profit organization and, for the first time in the conference’s 13 year history, she decided the east coast would host the event. In making the decision to host the event on the east coast, as opposed to the Midwest which has hosted the event until this point, she called upon SED as a local planner.

Kevin Schulte, Vice President of Business Development, and Ernest Pritchard, Director of Small Wind, both owners and founders of SED, as well as Meaghann Schulte, Director of Marketing and Public Relations, served on the advisory planning committee. As a result, SED was represented on nine panels, discussions and breakout sessions during the two day conference. Loren Pruskowski, Vice President of Finance, along with Dave Strong, Senior Project Manager, also represented SED in speaking roles.

Bob Bechtold, President of Harbec Plastics, and Tyler Fairbank, President of EOS Ventures, both of whom have ties to SED, also spoke at the conference. Bechtold is responsible for SED’s new state of the art building and warehouse and the main reason the company relocated to Ontario from Albany. In early March, Fairbank announced the partnership of SED and EOS Ventures, a company that provides a one-stop resource for project expertise, management and ownership, to install a wind turbine at your site via a long-term Power Purchase Agreement. 

The conference was designed to further the dialogue on residential, small and community wind topics, all of which focus on SED’s business model. On day one of the conference, Pritchard tackled the small wind side of the discussion, describing the process of installing a residential wind turbine. After a lunch break, the trio of Kevin Schulte, Strong and Pruskowski controlled the afternoon sessions as the three spoke on their area of expertise on different but simultaneous panels.  Strong and Schulte also spoke on the second day of the conference, again covering various aspects of the industry and spreading the good word of SED.