The Riverstone Energy Center is a clean energy technology commercialization center funded by the Virginia Tobacco Commission as an economic revitalization effort in Southside Virginia.  Located in South Boston, Virginia, in Halifax County, the Energy Center manages and operates the Riverstone Clean Energy Commercialization Center, the Modeling and Simulation Center of Excellence, and the Center for Coatings Application Research and Education.

The Energy Center partners and networks with corporations, entrepreneurs, universities, national labs, governmental entities, and funding agencies to provide commercialization support to burgeoning technologies and companies in the sustainable energy sector.  Feel free to browse the website to learn more about our programs, assets, and people.

Dr. Douglas Corrigan is currently the Director of the Riverstone Energy Center, which is a high-tech clean energy incubator and commercialization center located in South Boston, Virginia.  Dr. Corrigan has spent his career as a research scientist and a successful entrepreneur.  He has been actively engaged in understanding the best practices for transforming high-tech innovation into viable commercial ventures.

As CEO of an advanced biotechnology company, Dr. Corrigan led the charge for evaluating the market driving forces governing the biotechnology sector and developing new technologies and products to align with those needs.  Through his experiences in physics, engineering, materials science, and biotechnology, Dr. Corrigan became engaged in sustainable energy research and the factors controlling the transformation of our energy based economy.

Dr. Corrigan has a passion for exploring and affecting how innovation transforms itself into the market place, especially those products and processes that help to solve energy demand and supply challenges affecting our well-being and economy.  Over the course of the last two years, Dr. Corrigan has been transferring his entrepreneurial skills to others through economic development and high-tech business incubation programs like that represented by the Riverstone Energy Center.

Dr. Corrigan has a B.S. and M.S. degree from Rensselaer focusing on Engineering Physics, Materials Science, Solid-State Physics, and Electrical Engineering.  He also holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the Quillen College of Medicine.  During the beginning phases of his career, he played an integral role as a researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and NASA, where he served as part of the team to conduct multiple microgravity missions aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia that focused on solving material solidification, crystallization, and thermal transport theories underlying how advanced products are made terrestrially.

The Riverstone Energy Center is located in Southside Virginia, in South Boston, within the Halifax County district, in a beautiful 165-acre technology park, featuring pad-ready sites, and perfectly situated for new growth and expansion.  Click here for a brochure about the Riverstone Technology Park.

The Riverstone Energy Center is within a day's drive of 75% of the North American population, making it ideal for any company's location.

Other geographically key assets:

•Virginia is ranked in the top 10 in labor productivity

•Corporate tax rate of 6% hasn't changed in 30 years

•A population of 1,813,809 is within a sixty-mile radius

•Twenty institutions of higher education are within a sixty-mile radius

•Virginia was ranked the Best State for Business by Forbes.com four consecutive years