University of Redlands InSPIRe @ Redlands Our House Books Our House 2017 Renewable Energy: Problems and Prospects in Coachella Valley, California James B. Pick University of Redlands Follow this and additional works at: https://inspire.redlands.edu/oh_books Part of the Business Administration, Management, and Operations Commons, Geography Commons, and the Science and Technology Studies Commons Recommended Citation Pick, James B., "Renewable Energy: Problems and Prospects in Coachella Valley, California" (2017). Our House Books. 52. https://inspire.redlands.edu/oh_books/52 This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17 U.S. Code). This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Our House at InSPIRe @ Redlands. It has been accepted for inclusion in Our House Books by an authorized administrator of InSPIRe @ Redlands. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SPRINGER BRIEFS IN GEOGRAPHY James B. Pick Renewable Energy: Problems and Prospects in Coachella Valley, California 123 SpringerBriefs in Geography More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/10050 [email protected] James B. Pick Renewable Energy: Problems and Prospects in Coachella Valley, California [email protected] James B. Pick School of Business University of Redlands Redlands, CA, USA ISSN 2211-4165 ISSN 2211-4173 (electronic) SpringerBriefs in Geography ISBN 978-3-319-51525-0 ISBN 978-3-319-51526-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-51526-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016962213 © Springer International Publishing AG 2017 This work is subject to copyright. 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Special appreciation is given to Monica Perry and Jessica Rosales, for their out- standing collaboration on the federally funded research project in which ground- work of the present book project took place. Dr. Perry provided marketing and business strategy expertise and is co-author of Chap. 6 of this book. Jessica Rosales, then a graduate student and now at Esri Inc., provided outstanding research assis- tance and GIS expertise, and she is also thanked for her role in helping to proof and correct the final book manuscript. Thanks are expressed to Lisa Benvenuti, spatial resources manager at the University of Redlands, for her superb work on producing the finished maps that appear in the book. Appreciation is expressed to Avijit Sarkar, for his support and collaboration on the University of Redlands portion of the federally funded project. Many thanks to Vanessa Siliezar for handling permissions and other tasks and to Karen Kraker for multiple office support tasks related to the book project. Thanks for chapter reviews to Julia Brandes, Christopher Franklin, Mike Pasqualetti, Monica Perry, and Avijit Sarkar. Any errors remaining are those of the author only. Appreciation is expressed to Joe Wallace, currently CEO of the Coachella Valley Economic Partnership, for his interest and suggestions and to that entire organization for support. The following persons are thanked for their participation in the interview project: Vincent Battaglia, Lenny Caprino, David Garcia, Will Osborn, Bill Schlanger, Tracey Sizemore, and Steve Tolen, and Cathy Van Horn, and for expert consultation thanks are expressed to Paolo Tovar, Mike Pasqualetti, and John Randall. The author thanks Professor Frank Bean and others at the Center for Research on Immigration, Population, and Public Policy, Department of Sociology, at the University of California, Irvine, for providing a setting on sabbatical leave condu- cive to commencing and developing this book project. vii [email protected] viii Acknowledgments The author acknowledges the funding support of the Grant Award No: 07-69-­ 06995 by U.S. Department of Commerce, which was awarded to Coachella Valley Economic Partnership, with sub-award to the School of Business of the University of Redlands. He acknowledges also the further funding support provided by the Research Committee of the School of Business, University of Redlands. The author expresses appreciation to the Center for Business GIS and Spatial Analysis, University of Redlands, for its academic support. [email protected] About the Authors Moncia Perry Dr. Perry is co-author of Chap. 6. She has been a professor in the School of Business at the University of Redlands since 2004 and prior to Redlands she taught Marketing at Cal State Fullerton as well as the Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. At Redlands she has held admin- istrative positions and teaches courses at both the graduate and undergraduate level. They include Hybrid M.B.A. marketing courses (Marketing Management, Customer Information Strategies, GIS for Marketing, Marketing Analytics) as well as various undergraduate courses including introductory marketing courses, strategic manage- ment, introductory management courses, and a Capstone Project course. Her research publications and presentation have focused on two related streams: (1) Intersection of Technology and Marketing and (2) Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Her work has appeard in a variety of publications including Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Business Research, and Marketing Management Journal and she has presented at conferences such as INFORMS, Marketing Science, and Association of Global Business. Dr. Perry earned her Ph.D. in Marketing with a minor in Logistics/Information Systems from the University of Maryland and her B.S. in Psychology from the College of William and Mary. James B. Pick is a professor in the School of Business at the University of Redlands. He is director of the university’s Center for Business GIS and Spatial Analysis, past chair of the Department of Management and Business, and past assembly chair of the School of Business. He is author or coauthor of over 150 journal articles, book chapters, and scientific papers in information systems, GIS, population, and urban studies, and author or coauthor of thirteen books on these topics. His current research interests include renewable energy, spatial and socio- economic modeling of the worldwide and U.S. digital divides, analysis of urban change, and study of influences on technology use in rural villages in India. He is a senior associate editor of European Journal of Information Systems and serves on four other journal editorial boards. He has received a Fulbright award for Mexico, ix [email protected] x About the Authors distinguished alumnus award from Northern Illinois University, five distinguished research and teaching awards from the University of Redlands, and other awards. He holds a B.A. from Northwestern University, M.S.Ed. from Northern Illinois University, and Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine. [email protected] Contents 1 Introduction................................................................................................ 1 1.1 Introduction......................................................................................... 1 1.2 Background on the Coachella Valley.................................................. 4 1.3 Background on Renewable Energy..................................................... 11 1.3.1 Solar Energy............................................................................ 11 1.3.2 Wind Energy........................................................................... 14 1.3.3 Geothermal Energy................................................................. 16 1.4 Book Objectives.................................................................................. 17 1.5 Summary of Book Content................................................................. 18 References.................................................................................................... 22 2 Renewable Energy Features of Coachella Valley...................................