tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34606651520447506032023-11-15T10:55:46.394-08:00Stony Brook Energy Company InitiativeThe Small Business Development Center at Stony Brook University has been awarded a NYSERDA grant to facilitate the entry of new and existing companies into the renewable and clean energy business in New York State.
In the proposal an Early Stage Development Forum is to be established to post relevant energy articles and to allow and encourage communication among energy company principals, and science, engineering and business experts during the company development process. This is that forum.elihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216603672434264931noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3460665152044750603.post-26022347382064486202010-05-13T10:55:00.000-07:002010-05-13T11:00:00.754-07:00The Greening of Suffolk County BusinessThe sun, the wind, and acres of farm crops are fueling the move to Renewable Energy<br /><br />The stressful and debilitating economic downturn is having an uplifting effect on businesses around the nation; some right here on Long Island.<br /><br />Some engineering and manufacturing companies facing long periods of inactivity are retooling their strategies and are now building and installing solar panels in both residential and commercial sectors. These companies have attracted the interest and support of other firms on Long Island that manufacture and supply specific solar panel parts.<br /><br />Other hard-pressed firms are spinning their efforts toward constructing and erecting huge windmills that catch and advance wind movements, and generate clean energy.<br /><br />Before Robert Moses and his cohorts introduced the traffic jam to Long Island, one could hardly travel this thin strip of land without passing thousands of acres of potatoes, sweet corn, and other wholesome veggies. Now, more and more food crop growers are feeding some of their harvests to the transition toward biofuel production.<br /><br />While you may not yet be involved in the business of renewable energy, a growing number of Suffolk County companies are deeply involved; such as H2M Wind Turbines; Built Well Solar Corporation; Go Solar Inc., just to name a few.<br /><br />A word of advice to struggling Suffolk County engineering and manufacturing firms: Study the practices of those companies in the county that have already made the move to supporting the move to Renewable Energy. Who knows? Getting involved could bring in some green.elihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216603672434264931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3460665152044750603.post-61561542351962992732010-01-13T11:10:00.000-08:002010-03-08T11:36:52.058-08:00Geothermal Energy WorkshopOn January 13, 2010, the Stony Brook University Small Business Development Center held the second in a series of workshops on alternative energy as part of it's NYSERDA funded Energy Company Initiative. The focus of the workshop was on Geothermal energy. The slides from Tony Penaccio of GeoEnergy Enterprises are <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/sb3files/Home/GEE-ECES.intro.SBU.01.13.10.ppt?attredirects=0&d=1">HERE</a> and, the slides of Dr. Thomas Watson of Brookhaven National Laboratories are <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/sb3files/Home/StonyBrookGeothermalEnergy.ppt?attredirects=0&d=1">HERE</a> . The size of the file of slides from Brian DeLuca of Atlantis Marine World were too large to upload here. We will post them after we break up the presentation into two smaller files.<br /><br />Once again we would like to thank Bethpage Federal Credit Union for their generous support in sponsoring this and future workshops in this serieselihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216603672434264931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3460665152044750603.post-42829133518373381802010-01-08T12:06:00.000-08:002010-01-08T12:09:24.399-08:00Paterson Announces Funding for Renewable Energy Projects<a href="http://www.wicz.com/news2005/printarticle.asp?a=12198">Renewable Energy Funding in NY</a><br /><br />Governor David A. Paterson today announced that the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), in conjunction with the Public Service Commission (PSC), will provide nearly $300 million for renewable energy projects under the Renewable Portfolio Standard Program (RPS), which will help accelerate the development of New York’s clean energy economy. With these awards, New York continues to invest in clean energy to achieve Governor Paterson’s goal of meeting 45 percent of the State’s energy needs through energy efficiency and renewable energy by 2015.elihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216603672434264931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3460665152044750603.post-37366611189168749242010-01-08T11:52:00.000-08:002010-01-08T11:55:45.950-08:00Hybrid Solar Panels<a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=hybrid-solar-panels&print=true">Hybrid Solar Panels Combine Photovoltaics with Thermoelectricity: Scientific American</a>: <br /><br />The DOE awarded Weidlinger Associates, a New York City-based structural engineering firm, a $150,000 grant earlier this month (matched by a 10-percent commitment from the state) to develop durable hybrid solar roofing panels with integrated photovoltaic cells and thermoelectric materials that harvest the sun's energy to produce both electricity and hot water for buildings.<br /><br />The water tubes are crucial to the design. Typically, when photovoltaics heat up they begin to lose their efficiency at normal operating temperatures in a sunny environment, says Greg Kelly, Weidlinger's director of sustainable design. The design created by Huiming Yin, an assistant professor of civil engineering and engineering mechanics at Columbia, incorporates a capacity to cool down the photovoltaics while also heating water for use in the building to which the panels are attached.elihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216603672434264931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3460665152044750603.post-2604697114510514662010-01-08T11:34:00.000-08:002010-01-08T11:43:14.438-08:00Long Island Winery breaks ground on Wind Turbine Installation<a href="http://irecusa.org/2009/12/new-york-long-island-winery-breaks-ground-on-wind-turbine-installation/">Long Island Winery breaks ground on Wind Turbine Installation </a>:<br /><br />With the help of the Long Island Power Association’s Backyard Wind Initiative rebate, Osprey’s Dominion will become the first vineyard on Long Island to produce wine using wind power.<br /><br />Eastern Energy Systems will be installing a ReDriven 20 kW wind turbine at the site. The turbine is expected to produce an estimated 42,802 kWh of electricity per year for an annual energy savings of $7,918. <br /><br />Eastern Energy Systems is a participant in the Stony Brook Energy Company Initiative.elihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216603672434264931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3460665152044750603.post-59227589833820912002009-12-11T08:24:00.000-08:002009-12-11T08:34:48.055-08:00Hydrogen Power WorkshopOn December 9, 2009, the Stony Brook University Small Business Development Center held the first in a series of workshops on alternative energy as part of it's NYSERDA funded Energy Company Initiative. The workshop focus was on <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/sb3files/Home/20091209HydrogenWorkshopFlyer.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1">Hydrogen Power</a>. The speakers, Dr. Robert Remick, Director of the Hydrogen Technologies Center at NREL in Colorado, and Mr. Stephan Symanski, Business Development Manager of Proton Energy Systems in Connecticut graciously agreed to allow us to post their power point slides on this blog. Dr. Remick's are <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/sb3files/Home/20091209HydrogenWorkshop-NRELSlides1.ppt?">here(1)</a> and <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/sb3files/Home/20091209HydrogenWorkshop-NRELSlides2.ppt?">here(2)</a>, and Mr. Symanski's are <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/sb3files/Home/20091203HydrogenWorkshop-ProtonEnergySlides.ppt?">here</a>. <br /><br />We also want to thank Bethpage Federal Credit Union for their generous support in sponsoring this and future workshops in this series.elihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216603672434264931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3460665152044750603.post-59966468146636846712009-12-10T11:19:00.000-08:002009-12-10T11:23:03.290-08:00NYSERDA Awards to Clean Energy Businesses Announced<a href="http://www.gouverneurtimes.com/local-news-stories/60-st-lawrence-news/8920-ny-awards-3m-to-clean-energy-businesses.html">NY Awards $3M to Clean Energy Businesses</a>: <br /><br />"Governor David A. Paterson today announced the award of $3 million to a variety of projects throughout New York. The funds will strengthen and support the growth of New York’s clean energy economy by helping 18 Empire State companies commercialize clean energy technologies."<br /><br />This is an ongoing grant series that has been targeted by the Stony Brook Energy Company Initiative.elihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216603672434264931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3460665152044750603.post-7145683899269852052009-12-10T10:43:00.000-08:002009-12-10T10:47:19.748-08:00Viable Alternatives to Fossil Fuels<a href="http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/usa/Viable-Alternatives-to-Fossil-Fuels-Still-Decades-Away-78732812.html">Viable Alternatives to Fossil Fuels Still Decades Away</a><br /><br />As the Climate Change talks get underway in Copenhagen this week, there is much attention focused on alternative energy sources that produce little or no greenhouse gas pollution. Some of these energy sources - like wind, solar, biomass and geothermal - are also attractive because they are renewable and offset the need for imported oil, gas or coal. But, it will be a long time before any of these energy sources will be a large-scale alternative to fossil fuels.elihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216603672434264931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3460665152044750603.post-29620277139253649002009-12-04T08:54:00.000-08:002009-12-04T08:55:17.255-08:00Great Lakes Wind Project<a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iv_FXIWFzGb1ijU-W-F4MYxGEQeAD9CAQI7G2">The Associated Press: NY seeking developer for Great Lakes wind project</a>:<br /><br /><br />"New York state is looking for developers to build and operate wind turbines in the Great Lakes as part of a plan to use more renewable energy. The New York Power Authority on Tuesday invited potential developers to submit proposals for offshore wind projects in Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. The authority plans to award one or more projects a year from now. The offshore turbines would be the first for New York and among the first in North America, depending on when they get up and running."elihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216603672434264931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3460665152044750603.post-38754158295500875812009-11-30T07:48:00.000-08:002009-11-30T07:51:51.557-08:00Solar Energy Subsidies<a href="http://blog.syracuse.com/news/print.html?entry=/2009/11/demand_for_solar_energy_subsid.html">Demand for solar energy subsidies puts stress on New York state program</a>: "That should be good news for the 174 contractors registered with the state to install solar photovoltaic systems. But the demand has put such a strain on subsidies for residential solar that the state has reduced the amount offered, hoping to make a dwindling pot of money last through the end of the year.<br /><br />A new round of funding for 2010 and beyond has not yet been approved, and that leaves solar power installers hanging. They can’t sign up customers until they know what the subsidy will be. And without customers, an emerging industry employing between 800 and 1,000 people statewide can’t create more “green-collar” jobs."elihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216603672434264931noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3460665152044750603.post-51276705467214942012009-11-12T12:32:00.000-08:002009-11-12T12:37:59.316-08:00Coal Generates Too Much Carbon Dioxide<a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/1130/energy-technology-ocean-burial-carbon-environment_print.html">Bury Our Carbon at Sea<br /></a>: <br /><br />"But What if you could put the carbon where nobody lives? There is a perfect place 130 miles off the eastern U.S. seaboard and 2 miles below the ocean surface. It's a porous sandstone formation, trapped under 3,200 feet of hard shale, that stretches from New Jersey to Georgia. The section off the Jersey shore alone is capacious enough to store several hundred billion tons of CO2, enough to take on all the power plants within 155 miles of the coast from Maryland to Massachusetts for the next 100 years."elihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216603672434264931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3460665152044750603.post-78248217805038475022009-11-12T06:42:00.000-08:002009-11-12T06:44:03.645-08:00DOE to accelerate algae-based biofuel development - Biomass Magazine<a href="http://www.biomassmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=3234">DOE to accelerate algae-based biofuel development - Biomass Magazine</a><br /><br />Valerie Reed of the U.S. DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy talked about the direction the DOE is taking to accelerate the development of algae-based biofuels at the Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy held this week in Honolulu, Hawaii. She said the agency intends to develop advanced biofuels—hydrocarbons and other high-density fuels that can be drop in replacements for diesel and gasoline—in a more accelerated fashion than cellulosic ethanol.elihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216603672434264931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3460665152044750603.post-45538598113674113852009-11-11T09:22:00.000-08:002009-11-11T09:23:09.479-08:00Governors commit to offshore wind energy - wtop.com<a href="http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1809183">Governors commit to offshore wind energy - wtop.com</a>: <br /><br />"ANNAPOLIS - The governors of Maryland, Virginia and Delaware agreed Tuesday to a partnership to encourage the deployment of offshore wind energy in the region, hoping to capitalize on the Mid-Atlantic's enormous offshore wind resources."elihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216603672434264931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3460665152044750603.post-27867423016494163532009-11-11T09:08:00.000-08:002009-11-11T09:09:09.979-08:00Harnessing the Fuel from the Gods (Algae) | GOOD<a href="http://www.good.is/post/harnessing-the-fuel-from-the-gods-algae/">Harnessing the Fuel from the Gods (Algae) GOOD</a><br /><br /><br />Among the fastest growing plant species in the world, certain strains of algae grow so rapidly that they can double in size every day. Similar to how humans might sweat when mustering the courage to ask someone out on a date, certain strains of algae—when stressed (either from a lack of nutrients or sunlight)—produce large amounts of lipids (oils). These oils have chemical compositions similar to petroleum molecules called hydrocarbons. Scientists have figured out how to easily transform these algae oils into “Third Generation” biofuels that mimic gasoline, diesel, and aviation fuel.<br /><br />Algae are so prolific at producing oil (7,500 gallons of fuel per acre per year) that you could displace 100 percent of the petroleum that the United States consumes for transportation in a given year on a little more than 1 percent of our total landmass. Soybeans, the main source of biodiesel in the United States, produce only 50 gallons of biodiesel per acre per year—roughly 150 times less than algaeelihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216603672434264931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3460665152044750603.post-76298532883285558202009-10-15T09:55:00.000-07:002009-10-15T10:02:20.818-07:00Slides from the October 14th Open HouseHere are the slides that <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/sb3files/Home/SBDC.ppt?attredirects=0">Gloria Glowacki </a>and <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/sb3files/Home/20091013JKSWorkshopSlides.ppt?attredirects=0">Jeff Saelens </a>used in their presentations at the Renewable and Clean Energy Open House on October 14th in the Stony Brook Small Business Development Center Conference room.elihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216603672434264931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3460665152044750603.post-29827469226209654812009-10-13T11:45:00.000-07:002009-10-13T11:46:23.509-07:002nd Follower testThis is just a test.elihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216603672434264931noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3460665152044750603.post-22103543842828877962009-08-25T12:20:00.000-07:002009-08-25T12:22:06.175-07:00Big Oil Bets on Algae<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/08/21/eco.algaebiofuel/index.html">'Green goo' biofuel gets a boost - CNN.com</a><br /><br />Three years ago many would have dismissed the notion that a significant supply of the world's automotive fuel could come from algae. But today the idea, while still an adventurous one, is getting much harder to ignore. <br /><br />Making green from green: Biofuel from algae has been given a boost in investment in recent years. Back then there were only a handful of companies seriously focused on producing algae fuel. Now there are well over 50, according to Samhitha Udupa, a research associate with Lux Research. <br /><br />The number should double within the next year or two, she adds, and private investment in algae fuel ventures has at least doubled every year since 2006, a trend likely to continue. <br /><br />Last month ExxonMobil-- which has been publicly skeptical of other biofuels in the past -- invested up to $600 million into a collaborative R&D program with Synthetic Genomics, a startup founded by J. Craig Venter.elihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216603672434264931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3460665152044750603.post-36743981264050431292009-08-19T07:12:00.000-07:002009-08-19T07:15:36.431-07:00Nuclear Fusion: The ultimate source of clean and renewable energy<a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-08/acs-tle080309.php">Toward limitless energy: National Ignition Facility focus of symposium, Aug. 19-20</a><br /><br />Chemists are preparing to play an important but often unheralded role in determining the success of one of the largest and most important scientific experiments in history — next year's initial attempts at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) to produce the world's first controlled nuclear fusion reaction. If successful in taming the energy source of the sun, stars, and of the hydrogen bomb, scientists could develop a limitless new source of producing electricity for homes, factories, and businesses.elihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216603672434264931noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3460665152044750603.post-31260198872330846212009-08-18T08:38:00.000-07:002009-08-18T08:41:41.148-07:00Economic Climate Opens Door for Small Wind Energy Projects - Renewable Energy World<a href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2009/08/current-economic-climate-opening-door-for-small-wind-energy-projects">Economic Climate Opens Door for Small Wind Energy Projects - Renewable Energy World</a><br /><br />Very few large-scale wind projects are able to obtain financing under the current economic climate. But falling turbine, steel and labor prices have created the perfect environment for mid-scale wind energy projects to thrive. Although total new installed capacity in 2009 may not rival the impressive 8,900 MW installed in North America in 2008, a golden opportunity exists for smaller wind development.<br /><br />Small wind projects range in size from 100 kW to 30 MW and typically serve schools, farms, rural villages, businesses and municipal utility companies. Because these type of installations can access funding from various sources, they are less vulnerable to the credit crisis than their large-scale wind farm counterpartselihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216603672434264931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3460665152044750603.post-39399393388790432142009-08-17T06:56:00.000-07:002009-08-17T06:58:17.471-07:00A New Test for Business and Biofuel - NYTimes.com<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/business/energy-environment/17algae.html?hpw">A New Test for Business and Biofuel - NYTimes.com</a><br /><br />With the twin goals of making fuel from algae and reducing emissions of heat-trapping gases, a start-up company co-founded by a Colorado State University professor recently introduced a strain of algae that loves carbon dioxide into a water tank next to a natural gas processing plant. The water is already green-tinged with lifeelihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216603672434264931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3460665152044750603.post-44864385025511959832009-07-31T06:08:00.000-07:002009-07-31T06:09:13.520-07:00LIPA Gets Behind Commercial Solar<a href="http://libn.com/blog/2009/07/15/small-commercial-projects-get-a-lift-from-lipa/">Long Island Business News » Small commercial projects get a lift from LIPA</a><br /><br />Although it’s too early to tell whether commercial solar will take off, after years when photovoltaic panels primarily graced residential rooftops, the hottest topic in solar power is commercial projects from businesses to schools and government buildings.<br /><br />“In part, commercial hasn’t caught on because the technology wasn’t there,” said Michael Deering, LIPA’s vice president for environmental affairs. “And there weren’t rebate programs or tax benefits.” Deering said LIPA’s incentives - $3.50 per watt for the first 10 kilowatts and less for bigger projects - are prompting inquiries as word gets out companies can cash in."elihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216603672434264931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3460665152044750603.post-90019225156247637222009-07-29T11:49:00.000-07:002009-07-29T11:51:20.231-07:00BP Solar to Build Power Plant at BNL<a href="http://libn.com/blog/2009/07/21/long-island%e2%80%99s-green-work-force-grows/">Long Island Business News » Long Island’s green work force grows</a>:<br /><br />"When the Long Island Power Authority in March chose BP Solar to provide 37 megawatts of photovoltaic power at Brookhaven National Laboratory, it was good news for solar advocates. BP has since said it expects the project, big enough to power 4,700 homes, to provide a boost for local solar workers, generating more than 200 jobs for construction, engineering and electrical work.elihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216603672434264931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3460665152044750603.post-35835363793982342272009-07-29T08:37:00.000-07:002009-07-29T09:25:57.856-07:00A Fuel-Producing Wonder Organism<a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/07/28/green-tech-co-says-it-has-a-secret-a-fuel-producing-wonder-organism/">Green Tech Co. Says It Has a Secret: A Fuel-Producing Wonder Organism 80beats Discover Magazine</a>:<br /><br />Using a process that Joule Biotechnologies of Cambridge, MA dubs “helioculture,” sunlight and carbon dioxide interact with the photosynthetic organisms (to produce and secrete a biofuel). As an added bonus, the carbon dioxide used could be the emissions from a factory or power plant.<br /><br />The president of Joule Biotechnologies says the organisms secrete the chemical equivalent of ethanol. “A large project would look much like a solar array,” he explained. "Instead of converting the sun’s heat energy into electrons, we’re using it to create liquid fuels” . The company claims it can generate 20,000 gallons of fuel per year from every acre of “solar converter” panels, which is far more than other companies expect to produce. Exxon’s algae project, for example, aims to generate about 2,000 gallons per acre.elihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216603672434264931noreply@blogger.com0