Cold start: Ram’s back – and this time, the weight is on
By TARA TERRANOVA // Ramuel “Ram” Maramara is no stranger to high ambition. And his latest project – helping to power a cleaner future with gravity-based energy storage – is…
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No. 973: On hamburgers, clean energy storage and NYIT entrepreneurship, as Summer unofficially arrives
Summer job: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, and welcome back to Innovate Long Island – back on the beat after our brief holiday respite and excited to carry you…
Time to add nuclear back to Long Island’s energy mix
By MICHAEL H. SAHN // Nuclear power is back – and despite its bad history with nuclear power, Long Island needs to consider it as a progressive energy source. In…
Green energy stalls unless we minimize moratoriums
By DAVID PENNETTA // Land-use moratoriums are here to stay – but how they work can use a refresher. Moratoriums are a temporary prohibition of an activity. The intention of…
Construction begins on first South Fork Wind turbine
By GREGORY ZELLER // Marking an “awesome milestone” for the burgeoning U.S. offshore-wind industry – and a red-letter day for international partners Ørsted A/S and Eversource Energy – the first of 12 gigantic…
Giving plenty of thought to new green infrastructure
By DAVID PENNETTA // Nothing like nice weather and more daylight to get us thinking green. That’s good, because Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office has laid out some aggressive plans for…
AEC 2022 gets the clean-energy band back together
By GREGORY ZELLER // And now back to our regularly scheduled low-carbon economy, already in progress. Four years since last gathering in person – and 14 months since a post-pandemic…
Hydrogen economy advances with Hempstead HyGrid
By GREGORY ZELLER // One of the nation’s first clean-hydrogen projects is coming to Long Island, courtesy of one of the region’s largest utilities. National Grid and the Town of…
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…
Digital maps show Island is a clean-energy leader
A national nonpartisan business group has flipped the switch on an interactive “mapping resource” that tracks the spread of clean-energy technologies across New York State. Environmental Entrepreneurs, a Washington-based consortium…
Leibowitz: New York poised to lead on renewables
By HEATHER LEIBOWITZ, ESQ. // Ten years of progress has positioned New York to take renewable energy to the next level. Since 2007, New York has seen a 6,548 percent…