Island set to shine as clean-energy employment soars
By GREGORY ZELLER // Good news for research-rich, offshore-open Long Island: New York’s clean-energy economy is growing at more than double the rate of the overall state economy. So says…
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In energetic bus-based two-step, an ‘elegant’ e-effort
By GREGORY ZELLER // An ambitious school bus pilot program could ease the summertime burden on regional energy grids (students not included). Suffolk Transportation Service – a Bay Shore-based bus…
No. 436: On Patriots, procurements and busy college presidents (and aliens and cyborgs)
New day: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, and the midpoint of this late-summer week of socioeconomic innovation. New world: It’s Sept. 11 out there, a date that truly needs…
Albany plugging $79M into SBU campus efficiency
By GREGORY ZELLER // A variety of state-funded efficiency upgrades – including new lighting, ventilation and operations-management systems – are included in a new Stony Brook University infrastructure-improvement plan. Governor…
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…
No. 410: Landing the Eagle, energizing the IGIT and fortifying New York’s grid – plus, free Chipotle!
Speed dating: Well, that happened fast, dear readers – Friday already, as this abbreviated week of inventions and investments steams toward another welcomed weekend. It’s May 31 out there,…
Debrief: Catell, consortium set to blow the doors off
Robert Catell isn’t so much “busy” as “hyperactive.” Decades after serving as chairman of KeySpan and National Grid’s U.S. operations, the iconic innovator (last Debriefed by Innovate LI in…
No. 398: The shadows of Mercy, the lessons of JLABS and an arthritis shocker (plus: garlic breath!)
Holy cow, what a week: Good Friday morning, dear reader, and a good Good Friday morning to those of the Christian persuasion, and a peaceful Passover, too. Whatever your…
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…
No. 389: Inventing escalators, building a better battery, finding FarmBot – and happy birthday, RBG!
Stretch run: Welcome to Friday, intrepid reader, and the last leg of another busy workweek. It’s March 15 out there, and you’re already doing better than Julius Caesar, so,…
NYSERDA sets parameters for battery energy storage
By GREGORY ZELLER // With next-generation battery energy-storage systems gaining mainstream steam and Gov. Andrew Cuomo hitting the gas on new sustainability options, NYSERDA is officially setting some ground rules….
No. 375: Co-working, crowdfunding and a ton of patents … plus the origin of the pink lawn flamingo!
End run: Welcome to the finish line of another bust workweek, dear reader – it’s Friday, the weekend is upon us and you’ve seen the job through, once again….
No. 363: The Master of Innovation prognosticates, Dowling writes it down and DG Sotheby’s techs up (once again)
Welcome to Friday: You’ve done it, intrepid innovators – the sun sets on another busy workweek and rises on another well-earned weekend. Nicely played. Changeable skies: It’s Dec. 7…
Cold start: With $25M round set, ThermoLift ices test
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Stony Brook-based heat-pump innovator has completed a rigorous round of prototype testing – and, in the process, crushed a series of critical U.S. Department of…