Biden’s offshore wind plan shines bright on Long Island
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Biden Administration has announced an ambitious plan to dramatically increase the use of offshore wind power along the East Coast – and stakeholders of all…
Clean Energy
In NYSERDA’s ‘Strategic Outlook,’ a sunny LI forecast
By GREGORY ZELLER // You have to say this about NYSERDA: They think big. The New York State Energy Research & Development Authority has unveiled a three-year “Strategic Outlook” combining…
In ThermoLift, SBU commercialization done right
By GREGORY ZELLER // The shining star of Stony Brook University’s commercialization ecosystem is all growed up – and ready to reshape the global heating-and-cooling landscape. As a client of…
Geronimo! National Grid doubles down on renewables
By GREGORY ZELLER // The multinational utility behind several Long Island-based clean-gen efforts has made a big move in Minnesota – and doubled down on its North American renewables program….
Wind warriors earn support in Wainscott beach battle
By GREGORY ZELLER // With local opposition still pushing against the tide, Long Island wind-power backers are applauding new state support for a plan to land an undersea transmission cable…
On Jones Beach, a new beachhead in the climate war
By GREGORY ZELLER // An all-season “net zero” nature and energy educational resource has risen on the climate battle’s front lines. Less than two years after it was first announced,…
New York delegation: End offshore-wind delays now
By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Island political, environmental and labor leaders are calling on Washington to quit stalling and finally designate a final Wind Energy Area in New York waters….
Island schools to run $20M institute for wind-farmers
By GREGORY ZELLER // The winds of workforce development are blowing again through Long Island’s leading academic institutions, two of which will anchor a new state-sanctioned project targeting the offshore…
Ominous winds blow, but offshore efforts hold steady
By GREGORY ZELLER // President Trump is tapping the breaks on offshore-wind development, but the burgeoning billion-dollar industry is still poised to reset environmental and economic barometers. That’s the word…
Albany energizes ‘solar-plus-storage’ across LI
By GREGORY ZELLER // State officials are once again supercharging residential and commercial clean-generation energy technologies on Long Island. With Albany having already set parameters for energy-storage technologies – and committed…
Ambitious agenda, new partnership gas up the IGIT
By GREGORY ZELLER // A new cross-continental collaboration is just one of the innovative energy efforts revving things up inside the Institute for Gas Innovation and Technology. Stony Brook University’s…
ThermoLift runs with the elite at CERAWeek 2019
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Stony Brook startup in hot pursuit of game-changing heat-pump technology sizzled last month at one of the nation’s biggest annual energy conferences. ThermoLift, headquartered at…
At offshore consortium, $7M is blowing in the wind
By GREGORY ZELLER // A syndicate of offshore-wind leaders from around the region, the nation and the world is looking to energize the path to sustainability with a hefty funding…
Island’s first large-scale digester to feed energy needs
By GREGORY ZELLER // If you’ve had a bellyful of landfill waste, hang on – Long Island’s first stand-alone large-scale anaerobic digester is finally on its way. The Long Island…
ThermoLift lands on (Google for Startups) cloud nine
By GREGORY ZELLER // A rising star of Stony Brook University’s science-commercialization ecosystem is getting a major boost from Google. ThermoLift, headquartered at SBU’s Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center…