In business and in life, it’s always who you know
By PAUL SCHWARTZ // Building a network is critical to any business’ success – consider ThermoLift, which wouldn’t be where it is today without this foundation of entrepreneurism. Network-building is…
clean energy
Amazonian attention bodes well for Amogy, CEBIP
By GREGORY ZELLER // A new Clean Energy Business Incubator Program client is already attracting major league attention – including a significant buy-in by Amazon. Brooklyn-based Amogy Inc., a developer…
International shakedown marks TC3’s ultimate test
By GREGORY ZELLER // The future of energy efficiency is happening right now at ThermoLift – more specifically, it’s happening in British Columbia. Just months after the Natural Gas Innovation…
Electric-vehicle pioneer levels up with strategic buy-in
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Stony Brook-based startup will hit the gas – euphemistically – on production of electrically powered commercial vehicles, thanks to a megawatt investment from a high-profile…
At Spellman’s electricity lab, everything’s under control
By GREGORY ZELLER // A regional manufacturer of custom high-voltage power systems and one of Long Island’s top research institutions have teamed up to advance the next generation of power…
Sun rises on CEBIP’s ambitious Nordic accelerator
By GREGORY ZELLER // Stony Brook University is now on the Nordic track. On Wednesday, the university’s Clean Energy Business Incubator Program and Nordic Innovation House NY – an online…
Revolutionary TC3 sets make-or-break Canadian test
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Stony Brook-based carbon-reduction innovator and a large-scale Canadian utility are proceeding with an ambitious field test that will put a groundbreaking climate-control device through its…
Universities unite to batten the energy grid’s hatches
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the Department of Resiliency comes Yacov Shamash, the one-time Stony Brook University vice president for economic development who “retired” two years ago but remains very…
CEBIP marks 10 years with refined skills, fresh blood
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s hard to say who’s been more successful – the clients of the Clean Energy Business Incubator Program, or CEBIP itself. Either way, Stony Brook University’s…
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…
State pumps $15M into SUNY’s clean-energy programs
By GREGORY ZELLER // The state university system’s clean-energy workforce-development efforts have received an eight-digit shot in the arm. A $15 million state investment will bolster SUNY’s clean-energy workforce and…
Record $42.5M bid wins LI wind-farm lease
By GREGORY ZELLER // The U.S. subsidiary of a Norwegian energy company has placed a record $42 million bid to win the lease rights to build a wind farm 11…
State microgrid program ups the ante
Another $8 million is up for grabs in Phase II of the NY Prize microgrid competition, officially kicked off Wednesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Following 2015’s $8.3 million Phase I,…
Many hands on deck for ThermoLift 2.0
By GREGORY ZELLER // As you might imagine, ThermoLift’s natural gas-driven heat pump and air conditioning unit, a directed-energy device based on Vuilleumier Cycle thermodynamics, has many parts. Much like the…