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Feel as if You’re Stretched to the limit?
Try an ESCO!
Roslyn Goldmacher“Where’s The Money?”
LIFT Update
The Latest in Wind Turbines
Energy & The Environment AERTC Special:A Glimpse of Tomorrow
Four New GREAT IDEAS!
The SUNY FarmingdaleEnergy & Sustainability Conference
Alternative Fuels
Stony Brook University-AERTC Leads Advanced Energy Conference at Javits Center
Energy & The Environment Issue
Vol. 2 Issue 01
• Northville Industries, a subsidiary of NIC Holding Corp., is Long Island’s largest independent petroleum supplier andstorage/distribution company, handling refined products both for Northville and for other companies. Its marketingbusiness sells heating oil, gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel.
• Northville is committed to alternative fuels. It offers E85gasoline (15% gasoline, 85% ethanol) to gas stations in theNew York Metropoltan Area for Flex Fuel Vehicles (FFV’s), aswell as bio-diesel and bio-heating oil.
• Northville now develops and operates CNG fuel stations to help fleets take advantage of cheap, clean domestic natural gas.
• Northville has succeeded as a 3rd generation family business by placing a high priority on customer service, state of the art information technology, and entrepreneurial responses to changes in the petroleum industry.
• Northville serves the Long Island economy and welcomes an opportunity to serve you.
Contact Tom [email protected]
• Northville Industries, a subsidiary of NIC Holding Corp., is Long Island’s largest independent petroleum supplier andstorage/distribution company, handling refined products both for Northville and for other companies. Its marketingbusiness sells heating oil, gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel.
• Northville is committed to alternative fuels. It offers E85gasoline (15% gasoline, 85% ethanol) to gas stations in theNew York Metropoltan Area for Flex Fuel Vehicles (FFV’s), aswell as bio-diesel and bio-heating oil.
• Northville now develops and operates CNG fuel stations to help fleets take advantage of cheap, clean domestic natural gas.
• Northville has succeeded as a 3rd generation family business by placing a high priority on customer service, state of the art information technology, and entrepreneurial responses to changes in the petroleum industry.
• Northville serves the Long Island economy and welcomes an opportunity to serve you.
Contact Tom [email protected]
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Cover Story: Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center
Cornerstone Interview:
Michael Faltischek
SUNY Farmingdale
Energy Sustainability Conference
Offshore WIND - Peter Golon
YOUR ENERGY DOLLARS:
New York Energy Policy Institute- Dr.
Guodong Sun & Dr. Gerald Stokes
Bob Catell Dr. Yacov Shamash Dr. Guodong Sun Jim Smith Dr. AnnMarie Scheidt Dr. Gerald Stokes
GREAT IDEAS
BIOS
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Barbara KentPublisher/Editor-in-Chief
Vivian Leber, [email protected]
Chris Kent, Creative [email protected]
ContributorsDavid [email protected]
Steve [email protected]
James [email protected]
Roslyn D. [email protected]
Peter [email protected]
Donovan [email protected]
Charles [email protected]
Tom J. [email protected]
Vivian Leber, [email protected]
Neal Lewis [email protected]
Gordian [email protected]
Dr. Guodong [email protected]
Pamela WinnikoffPAW Communications
PhotographyAsia Lee, Cover and AERTC Photos
[email protected] Salzbank - 516.746.3575
Our Sponsors for this issue are:Advanced Energy Research and
Technology Center at SUNY Stony Brook.Northville Industries
Carter, DeLuca, Farrel & Schmidt, LLPRuskin, Moscou, Faltischek PC
The Cotocon GroupMelville Chamber
Vision Long Island
www.TheCorridorLI.com
Alternative Fuels: Greater Long Island Clean Cities
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Everybody watches the energy markets. We are beings of energy and consume it in great quantities and various forms to sustain ourselves and our sometimes lavish lifestyles. As luck would have it, we appear to be running out of it, and so must find alternative methods of producing energy so that we can continue to live.
Our cover story is about the Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center at Stony Brook University, the people who work there and the marvelous things that come out of it. AERTC is the manifest vision of the late Dr. John Marburger. When Dr. Marburger was president of Stony Brook University, he embraced the dream of developing it into a “Berkeley of the East”. He believed the squeaky new ‘Brook, scarcely 30 years old, previously a tiny little teacher’s college in Oyster Bay - with room to grow on 480 acres of land donated by the Ward Melville Foundation - had the potential to evolve into one of the most prestigious universities in the US. Almost thirty years later, Robert Catell, then President of Keyspan Energy, and Dr. Yacov Shamash, Dean of Engineering at Stony Brook sat with Tom DiNapoli, NY State Comptroller, at a diner in Manhasset and sketched out the idea for the Energy Center on a napkin. When they brought the idea to State Senator Ken LaValle, he shared their enthusiasm. We hope the words and graphics in this issue of The Corridor give you an idea of what a fantastic achievement the AERTC is, physically and practically, by those who made Dr. Marburger’s vision a reality.
Barbara KentPublisher/Editor-in-Chief
From the Editor’s Desk
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The high cost of energy is the most hotly debated and controversial subject that permeates every aspect of our lives. We have some answers. Four money experts from different disciplines give us their perspective on Your Energy Dollars.
One of the perks of this job is finding creative entrepreneurs who invest in their dreams. We have four “Great Ideas”, some of which are previously unpublished, environmental/energy related “inventions” that we believe will make great contributions to society. This is “Save The World” technology currently available and production-ready. One of them will clean our oceans and remediate brown fields, with an added bonus you won’t believe; a vertical wind turbine with an extra twist; PEOPLE Power from SUNY Farmingdale Labs; and the Super Battery from Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Our Wind offerings are from the Sierra Club and Renewable Energy Long Island, and of course one of our Great Ideas. The allied energy industries on Long Island are so numerous and diverse, it is not possible to cover everything or everyone in these pages. We have chosen carefully instead, to present you with a number of ideas, products and concepts that perhaps you have not yet seen.
“If you want to understand the secrets of the universe, think interms of energy, frequency and vibration.” Nikola Tesla
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Congressman Steve Israel represents New York’s 3rd Congressional District, including the communities of Huntington, North Hempstead, Queens, Oyster Bay, and Smithtown. He was first sworn into Congress in 2001. While speaking to the House Democratic Caucus, former President Bill Clinton called Congressman Israel “one of the most thoughtful people in the House of Represen-tatives.” Israel is a member of the House Leadership, serving as the Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Cam-paign Committee and considered a leader on U.S. ener-gy security, reducing our national dependence on foreign oil, lowering energy costs, and creating an innovative clean technology economy. Congressional Quarterly called Israel’s comprehensive energy security proposals “an ambitious blueprint for energy issues.”
In the 111th Congress (2009-2010), Rep. Israel and Rep. Jay Inslee of Washington started the Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC). Rep. Israel continues to serve as the co-chair of SEEC in the 112th Congress (2011-2012). This House Caucus has more than 45 members and is leading the way on the House of Rep-resentative’s clean energy, climate change, and environ-ment agendas. One of Rep. Israel’s priorities in Congress has been to preserve and protect Long Island’s greatest natural resource - Long Island Sound. On April 22, 2009, Rep. Israel supported the passage of two key environ-mental bills: The Electronic Device Recycling Research and Development Act (H.R.1580) and the Green Energy Education Act (H.R.957). The Green Energy Education Act authorizes the Department of Energy to partner with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to provide grants to institutions of higher education for training of engineers and architects in high-performance building design and clean energy.
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The Corridor is proud to offer you four NEW ideas and products that address primary Energy and Environmental issues that face Long Islanders today. The first is a product, Biogard, that promises to clean the Earth of pollutants and turn the resulting sludge into gold. Well, almost. The second is Steve Apelman’s Vertical Wind Turbine – not the first one, but one that we think is clearly more advanced than the others. We also have Esther Takeuchi’s “Better Battery” and a remarkable “People-Powered” generator.
Biogard is a technology innovation company founded in 2010 to solve environmental, agricultural and nutritional challenges using natural processes with safe materials.First marketing a chitinase based natural fertilizer called OLN. Biogard listens to local market needs and uses green chemistry and natural materials to create, patent and market innovative environmental, food and soil solutions.
Biogard has a patent pending Oil Remediation Material which encapsulates and biodegrades oil. Versions developed by Biogard work in both soil and water and convert the hydrocarbons into clean soil, water and carbon dioxide.
The media is used for three additional inventions:
One is the use of Biogard to eliminate odors from composting, animal refuse and other odor sources.
Another is a storm water depollution device called the Bioskirt. The Bioskirt removes hydrocarbon from the water, which is then completely composted into safe humic matter for soil.
Another use of Biogard Oil Remediation Material is a drip pad called Biopad for use in garages and holding stations where vehicles drip oil or other hydrocarbons onto the ground. Biopad safely collects and composts the residue into soil humic matter after use.
In addition to these technologies, Biogard has developed the first cost-effective nitrogen removal system called Nitro-Cess. Nitro-Cess uses a proprietary media to selectively remove nitrogen from cesspool and septic tank water. The technology is currently being reviewed by Suffolk County Department of Health before being reviewed by NY DEC.
Other technologies include soil additives which reconstitute micronutrients as well as ion exchange capacity and humic matter. With one issued and over
10 pending patents, Biogard has a business strategy which incorporates intellectual property, market-driven product development, and low cost solutions with good margins.
Biogard met with the Suffolk County Water Authority to promote our oil clean technology. Our contact, Chuck Schwartz, Director of Long Island Green leaned over and said, “ If you guys could develop an answer for the nitrogen pollution, it would solve the biggest environmental problem on the Island”.
Biogard founding partner, Steve Apelman, an engineer, and I examined solutions from a variety of theoretical perspectives after consulting with Suffolk County Department of Health. We spent about six months studying the challenge, when I had an “Aha!” moment while working with different absorbents. None of them worked so far, even though the chemistry was theoretically correct. Then I realized that in stearic dimension of the molecules, shape is the key. I had a hunch that one of the molecules I worked with for other applications might do the trick. I poured a nitrogen rich solution into a 25mll vial, added my compound, and then tested the supernatant for nitrogen. I ran the test in 5 minutes in my kitchen. The supernatant was clean!
We have now submitted our testing proposal to the State DEC in Albany after useful feed-back from Walter Dawydiak’s technical team at Suffolk County Dept. of Health. We would like the units to be in production ASAP. They are simple to manufacture and can provide local, ”free” jobs at all levels.
We at Biogard are excited about being able to provide such a high impact solution to LI’s environment and beautiful nature. We are proud to do anything we can to keep it that way.
Contact Biogard at [email protected] or 631.334.1276.
-David Abecassis
BIOGARD’s Green Chemistry Solutions
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The Apelman VRWT, (Vertical Rectified Wind Turbine), uses an unconventional method of producing torque around a vertical axis unlike the existing wind turbines in use today to solve three of most significant problems that plague the industry; the first VRWT solution is that the generator gets to stay on the ground- not elevated on a pole, the second is to achieve meaningful performance at low wind speeds, and the most important solution the Apelman VRWT offers is the capture and storage of unused energy in a permanent and safe manner for recall at any future time.
The Air-Diode impellors used in the Apelman VRWT design are a minimum of 4 opposing flat rectangular sections presented vertically to the incident wind at 90 degree intervals of rotation around a centralized shaft, and are attached to that main rotating vertical axis where the system torque is created; however, the impellors are not merely flat panels.
The Apelman VRWT design uses the same principal of a bird’s wing, in that the vertical flat impellors named “AIR-DIODES”, (identical to its electrical
equivalent), presents a different resistance to airflow in one direction then it does to airflow in the opposite direction. This feature allows the VRWT to always spin in only one direction no matter the wind direction, wasting no energy or time as other systems do to that need to “turn into the wind”.
Figure 1 shows the moveable elements an AIR-DIODE, and the two states that these air-diode impellors can achieve; on the left, the impellor is in the conduction mode, (ON), and on the right, in the cutoff mode, (OFF).
To maximize the air-diode efficiency I added low-power rotational actuators that force open the air-diode elements to their fullest when required, dropping the wind resistance, thereby minimizing the air-diodes drag. The low-power actuators allow the VRWT to create an effective and meaningful amount of torque at very low wind speeds; a unique feature of the Apelman VRWT.
On the far right of Figure-1 is the typical rotational actuator and its counterbalanced drawbars that attach to each element of the air-diode section. Actuators are only energized when airflow would support the natural inertia that would force the air diode elements open, (ON); shown as the 0 degree position of the vertical shaft.
Air-diodes elements naturally rotate toward their closed positions when actuators are unpowered, and fully close when the wind is in the opposite direction of airflow, achieving cutoff, (OFF); shown as the 180 degree position of the central shaft. The repetitive transformation of the air-diodes from an ON state to the OFF state as they rotate around the Central Power Shaft allows the VRWT to produce power more efficiently that any other turbine design.
Figure-1’s typical air-diodes are shown with respect to the Central Power Shaft to which they would be attached. In this view, the air-
(VRWT)Vertical Axis Rectified Wind Turbine
Five-times the power - More stable, safe and reliable - Energy as needed for peak demand
by Steve Apelman, Macro Electronics Corp.
New technology addresses many past issues of the Wind Turbine:
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diode at the 0 degree position has airflow passing undisturbed through the structure presenting minimal drag, and therefore the smallest unwanted torque opposing the direction of rotation of the Central Power Shaft. The air-diode in the 180 degree position presents the maximum drag to the incident wind by blocking its flow completely and causing the winds inertial energy to be imparted to the closed structure, subsequently inducing vast torque in the Central Power Shaft, sending it rotating in its singular clockwise direction.(VRWT) A rudimentary VRWT system is shown in Figure-2 showing the minimum of 4 air-diode impellors required, and are shown at the 0, 90, 180, and 270 degree positions about the Central Power Shaft.
It can be seen in Figure-2 that air-diode in the 180-degree position will produce the greatest torque around the Central Power Shaft while the 90-degree and 270-degree units would provide no torque force. To have the impellors at the 90 and 270 degree positions still be useful in creating torque, and therefore add to the efficiency of the system as a whole, the Apelman VRWT design incorporates rotational slip stream airfoils that presents a variable pitched surface not unlike a rudder to take advantage of the two structures still being within an airflow even though they are no longer at their prime angles of rotation. The pitch of the slipstream airfoils shown in Figure 2 are controlled using a computer that employs an airflow sensor that keeps track of the wind direction with respect to the position of the vertical Central Power Shaft. This is the same computer and software that is used to control the exact timing of the rotational actuators of the air-diode elements.
The complete structure of an air-diode impellor of a VRWT can be made up of potentially hundreds of the smaller sections
shown in Figure-1. The air-diodes and the slipstream airfoils, all working in concert, allow the system as a whole to create an unprecedented average of nearly 60% differential cross sectional area to the incident wind, making the potential of the Apelman VRWT more than 5 times that of conventional wind turbines that only average about 11%.
To complete the basic understanding of the system as a whole, Figure-3 shows another rudimentary VRWT system using the minimum 2-weight energy storage mechanism. The VRWT delivers steady output energy via the ground-based generator because it is driven by the uniform potential energy of the storage weights lifted using the energy obtained from the Central Power Shaft of the system. One weight is always lowering while one is being lifted, but the system is not limited to only two storage masses.
The real benefit of this system is that the turbine does not have to turn at a constant rate- just turn, and deliver energy to the ratcheting mechanism that elevates the massive energy storage weights. This is how the VRWT, as a whole, can operate at virtually any wind speed and still deliver stable power.Whenever there is wind, especially at night when energy demand is low, the VRWT system is continually storing the winds potential energy in a stable, safe, and reliable mechanism whereby it can be retrieved just as safely and reliably at any time.
The number of energy storage weights of a VRWT system is without limit, but is only restricted to a practical maximum number of units that can be elevated in a set period of time given the parameters of the local wind patterns.Lastly, the extraordinary benefit of the VRWT energy storage system is that the energy can be retrieved from the energy storage mass at whatever rate is needed, and numerous masses can be lowered simultaneously to offer surges of power during periods of peak demand, another feature of the Apelman VRWT that no other turbine can match.
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Great Battery Idea #1: tiny lifesaver Portable electronics, hybrid vehicles, electric vehicles, biomedical devices, and aerospace applications demand advanced batteries that can perform safely over many years. The FAA’s recent grounding of Boeing’s new Dreamliner commercial aircraft underscores the critical role of reliable battery systems in advanced transportation technology. An equally high performance standard is demanded for the battery used in medical devices. Life-saving Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators (ICD) detect arrhythmias, interrupt them, and reset the heart’s rhythm to normalcy. Today’s ICDs run on a small lithium battery with a five to six year lifespan. With people living longer, that often necessitates multiple procedures to implant fresh batteries. Dr. Takeuchi has published “very encouraging” findings on a longer-lived battery for the ICD–with a 10-year usable life–using a new class of materials that have greater demonstrated stability. The University is exploring a patent for this technology, which could soon lead to a better quality of life for millions of people worldwide. Because Stony Brook and Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) collaborate on numerous projects, Prof. Takeuchi also serves as Chief Scientist of the Global and Regional Solutions Directorate at Brookhaven National Laboratory and participates in the Laboratory’s program of electrochemical research to improve the lithium battery also for a wide range of other applications.
In Pursuit ofa BetterBattery
National Medal of Technology winner Esther Takeuchi, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and of Materials Science and Engineering at Stony Brook University, has established three related laboratories in the Advanced Research & Technology Energy Center (AERTC). Since joining the Stony Brook faculty in July 2012, she and her team have made headway simultaneously on many projects. The CORRIDOR pronounces two among them as “Great Ideas” – one involving a tiny battery and another involving a giant battery. Each one answers a societal imperative.
Vivian Leber
Dr. Takeuchi’s research is producing a better understanding of the complex electrochemistry involved in energy storage, a crucial step to support improved battery design and engineering. “Stony Brook-AERTC and BNL are jointly focusing on energy storage as a key part of our energy strategy,” Dr. Takeuchi says. “We are now starting to research the chemistry and engineering of making really big batteries to store solar power, but in such a way that they would also be low-cost.” Such batteries would be charged during sunny hours, to discharge their power at night when solar farms are turned off. Solar power is particularly germane to Long Island, which has a 32-megawatt solar farm at BNL (the largest in the Northeast).
A reliable battery storage system is the critical link that would allow all renewable sources of energy – wind, photovoltaic (solar), hydroelectric, and geothermal power – to be viewed as practical, mainstream, and accessible, even when such renewables are produced intermittently. Once the technology is proven, renewable sources would become integrated into Smart Grid production and distribution systems. Long Island’s power instability was demonstrated in last year’s Superstorm Sandy. We will watch Dr. Takeuchi and her colleagues progress from research into systems and design, then patents…
... stay tuned for more about giant batteries that keep the power flowing.
Great Battery Idea #2: think big for solar storageCourtesy of Brookhaven National Laboratory
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People-Power
Gym?at the
Only the legs of the student who is lightly jogging power the manual treadmill. His motion turns a belt attached to a compressor that conveys expanding air by pipe to a pneumatic motor, which then lifts a weight.
Named the Sport-Air-Compressed (SAC), the apparatus is the brainchild of Dr. Mohamad Zoghi, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at SUNY Farmingdale State College. The device’s theoretical and practical capacity to capture and store human-sourced energy, along with any escaping heat as the system operates, is being quantified by a team of Dr. Zoghi’s students, with assistance from Instructor Mir Saidpour. The variables of load, temperature, pressure and torque are being measured. Preliminary findings serve to validate the team’s hypothesis: The expended energy of sweaty human workout-warriors can be collected and harnessed to power other machines–and, ultimately, transported to the grid as renewable energy.
The project, begun last summer, is being funded by the NYS Department of Education
program CSTEP (Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program) and by SUNY Sustainability. With the support of the college’s Dean of Engineering Technology, Dr. Kamal Shahrabi, additional funding is being sought to expand the project. Next steps include building variations of the original model (employing a stationary bicycle and powering an electric motor and other devices), publishing a research paper for a technical journal, and obtaining patents. Dr. Zoghi envisions scaling up so that the design would harness the limitless human-power of a full-size gymnasium with dozens of treadmills and other exercise machines.
For example, if, for a single day, 50 treadmills in a gym were operating 18 hours at 50% capacity, theoretically 600 kilowatt hours of energy could be generated and transferred to the electric grid; that would be enough to power about 100 one-bedroom apartments for a day, at a savings of $35,000 per year, according to Dr. Zoghi’s calculations.
Farmingdale State’s Dr. Mohamad Zoghi (foreground, right) with the SAC and (l to r): Instructor Mir Saidpour and student researchers Kishan Singh, Anthony Nardeo, Lidia Amaya, Andre Robinson, and Danny Hart. The students, who will serve in internships during their final semesters, are aiming for jobs as varied as aviation component designer, toy designer, NASA astronaut, and renewable energy engineer-business manager. photo credit: Robert Salzbank, Rampage Studios
Farmingdale State University Professor Invents
Renewable Energy Treadmill
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Ryan McGann, CEO of Solar Cool Technologies, a Mechanical Engineering graduate of Stony Brook University who originally started on the project as a winner of the University’s DARE Student Entrepreneurship Competition, noted that “the angel investment is enabling us to bridge the gap between proven technology and prototype and begin moving toward a manufactured finished good for our rapidly growing sales inquiries. We are exceedingly grateful to the Long Island Angel Network for their confidence and support throughout the start-up process.”
The Solar-Cooler® is designed for general consumer recreational use — beaching, camping, boating, and backyeard barbeques — with military, medical, and emergency disaster relief applications on the horizon; adding the capability for the system to charge cellphones in the field is also under consideration. Preliminary discussions have taken place with industry leaders and strong interest has been expressed in markets in the Middle East, Africa and Australia. Solar Cool Technologies also researching and developing new applications, technologies, and methods for converting natural and renewable resources to power products for everyday life. Its sister company, Ignite Innovations, is pursuing R&D activities in other sectors.
Stony Brook Student-founded Company Brings Alternative
Energy to Consumers
NEW BUSINESS From Technology
Solar Cool Technologies has been touched by an angel or rather, a network of angels and is spreading its wings. In the fall of 2011, the company moved into AERTC incubator with help from an $800,000 investment spearheaded by members of the Long Island Angel Network (LIAN), a not-for-profit organization of individual angel investors who finance early stage companies based on Long Island. LIAN’s support allowed Solar Cool Technologies to establish its headquarters, acquire equipment, connect with Stony Brook faculty, and begin to accelerate development of the Solar-Cooler®, the world’s first portable solar battery-assisted refrigerating cooler to be available commercially.
“Long Island has a history of innovative companies covering aerospace to computer sciences and Solar
Cool Technologies has similar promise,” said LIAN Chairman Michael L. Faltischek.
“The Long Island Angel Network saw investor value and potential for our region to benefit from the company’s research and development. we are excited to help the company move ahead in developing its environmentally friendly technologies and products.”
About Long Island Angel Network: Founded in 2006, LIAN is a not-for-profit corporation
consisting of individual angel investors interested in financing
privately held companies or ventures based in Long Island, NY. LIAN’s goal is to bring the
region’s most exciting, promising early stage growth companies together with investors and benefit the local economy. For more, visit: www.liangels.net
ABOUT SOLAR COOL TECHNOLOGIES:A past winner of Stony Brook University’s DARE student entrepreneurship competition, Solar Cool Technologies is headquartered at Stony Brook’s Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center (AERTC) on Long Island, NY. This research and development company was formed by a Stony Brook Mechanical Engineering graduate to develop self-sustaining temperature stabilization systems, including environmentally friendly products and subsidiary technologies. For more, visit www.solarcooltech.com.
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Long Island is home to some 3,200 manufacturers. For several decades, The Long Island Forum for Technology (LIFT) has aimed to keep them healthy and competitive. This matters to Long Island’s larger economy because industrial production spins off other commercial activities and new ventures. Manufacturers therefore have an outsize economic impact, generating nearly 20% of LI’s $120 billion economy.
By strategically connecting businesses to funders, suppliers, business intelligence and talent, LIFT brings them out of their silos to better compete for contracts and capital. It offers small and startup industrial companies technical services, training and help to procure government contracts. Such tools are a competitive godsend in a region known for its high costs. When LIFT identifies a promising new technology which has a ready market and supportive regional assets, it can provide office space, engineering support, and product testing through pre-production phases for the nascent enterprise ̶ whatever it takes to commercialize that technology.
LIFT now manages $50 million in business assets and real property from its quarters at the spacious, multi-purpose Morrelly Center for Homeland Security, in Bethpage. Over the next year LIFT will collaborate on or steer significant new projects that should help Long Island’s economy.
Energy, particularly renewables, Rail, and Cybersecurity: Economic DriversLIFT aims to spot trends that will shape the region’s future, and of late, technology that intersects energy and security is generating excitement. A consensus that Long Island businesses could become national providers in cyber-defense of the electric grid forms the basis for a new consortium which includes LIFT,
announced in February by U.S. Representative Steve Israel. Although there are other types of cyber risks, the prospect that hackers could infiltrate the grid generates alarm. Once the group has assessed LI’s capabilities, it will strategize how best to attract national contracts for the region.
LIFT President Frank Otto characterizes LIFT’s role in commercializing new energy-tech concepts. “We support the work of Stony Brook’s AERTC, Brookhaven National Lab and others by figuring out how to build their technology and ready it for the market through Long Island’s and New York State’s manufacturers.“ In fact LIFT, itself a state-sponsored economic development organization, is responsible for seeing that Long Island and other NYS regions mutually benefit from collaboration, not competition. That sometimes means the design and engineering of a product will take place on Long Island, while a partner manufacturer upstate is identified as cost-effective for mass production .
LIFT currently is helping several entrepreneurs to commercialize breakthrough energy-efficiency technologies. The pneumatic technology for military use that came from LI’s aerospace industry now has direct application to current energy technology, as seen in the pilot for a new type of braking system for trucks that would capture and redeploy energy used during braking. Also in development are a new type of fuel cell, and a new process that would both repurpose an industrial waste product and conserve water in producing a material that is omnipresent in the construction industry.
Renewable energy technology on LI also goes hand in glove with the region’s environmental industry and LIFT offers conservation programs. LIFT identifies companies
by Vivian LeberLIFT was profiled as the cover story of The Corridor’s January 2013 issue.(A digital copy can be found at: www.thecorridorli.com). This is the second of the series.
Photo: LIFT’s Joe Garone, Chairman, Frank Otto, President, Philip Coniglio, Project Manager, Bill Wahlig, Executive Director.
LIFT Commercializes Energy-Tech and Launches LI’s World-Class
Composite Center
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that have high waste streams, and connects them to its partners, such as the NYS Pollution Prevention Institute (PPI) at Rochester Institute of Technology. A PPI technologist might make a site visit to evaluate a company’s processes and offer solutions; then LIFT can connect the firm with potential NYS financial support for the client company to buy equipment or upgrade processes to implement the plan. The Greater Long Island Clean Cities Coalition (GLICCC) spent its early years under LIFT’s roof, and with LIFT’s assistance, won a $15 million grant, awarded in 2009 from federal stimulus funds. GLICCC, now based at Stony Brook University’s Advanced Energy Research & Technology Center (AERTC), is helping to identify and fund projects to convert autos and trucks to alternative fuels. It also funds fueling stations and installs solar-powered charging stations as partners with Long Island universities. LIFT continues to collaborate with GLICCC on projects benefitting its client manufacturers.
STEM – Make that “STEMM” (add a final “M” for “Manufacturing”)LIFT is part of LI’s Workforce & Education Working Group, which promotes STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) education. In fact, LIFT and others suggest modifying the term by adding another “M” (for Manufacturing) ̶ or “STEMM.” The region’s colleges and universities are responding to the pressing demand for a workforce skilled in manufacturing both at entry and mid-levels by adding new engineering technology courses and minors, to bridge gaps in areas such as applied energy technology and composite materials manufacturing. LIFT further provides scholarships to BOCES graduates enrolling in the region’s colleges, and is developing another program which, according to LIFT Executive Director Bill Wahlig, will encourage youth who are out of school with no career path to pursue training in manufacturing skills.
Where is the Capital?Along with needing skilled workers, designers and manufacturers are hungry for capital. Small businesses are urged to seek advice from LIFT and others, particularly The Long Island Development Corporation, for help in accessing the appropriate SBA, SBIR and other federal and state programs, as well as private capital opportunities. Given that so many of LIFT’s successes started with accessing federal and state grants, what would happen if those streams run drier in coming years? “If we have smart programs and can demonstrate how they will benefit society and our economy,” Wahlig says, “private capital will increasingly invest in our region.”
New Composite Center will be “Transformational” (See sidebar article)In what could be transformational for Long Island manufacturing, The Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technology Innovation Center –or AMMTIC –owned and operated by LIFT, opens this fall.
To learn more about LIFT, visit http://www.lift.org. For events and membership, contact Lucy at [email protected]; for other inquiries, Bill at [email protected]. The CORRIDOR’s next issue, all about Long Island Small Business, will continue to tell the LIFT story.
The Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technology Innovation Center –or AMMTIC–will open in Plainview on October 31. It will be the most advanced center of its kind in the US, capable of fabricating with composites using every known process. LIFT owns the 25,000 square foot facility and obtained and administers its $15 million New York State capital funding grant.
Composites, which are supplanting metal and plastic materials in everyday and industrial products, will represent an estimated $120 billion U.S. industry by 2020, six-fold growth from today’s market. The new Center will enable Long Island manufacturers to become early-adopters and elevate the region’s profile.
LIFT President Frank Otto believes that AMMTIC’s timely opening this year positions Long Island to become a major international engineering and design center and exporter for composites. The center may also attract new federal funds as part of a multi-state push for US leadership in composites—abetted by a new manufacturing alliance of which LIFT is a founding partner.
According to LIFT Chairman Joe Garone, “The bottom line is to create jobs here and support our manufacturers, who, with minimal investment, now can win supply chain contracts in high tech manufacturing. This Center will stimulate the entire regional and state economy.”
Philip Coniglio, AMMTIC’s Project Manager, points out, “We are not competing with manufacturers; we will not do mass production here.” Rather, Long Island’s researchers, designers and manufacturers may cost-effectively use the center’s assets on a fee-for-service basis—for basic machining, making prototypes, testing processes, and for advanced work using robotic equipment that LIFT will buy for upwards of $2 million. The new facility will run leanly with staged acquisitions, starting with the most pressing equipment needs indicated by local manufacturers, and then in 2014, add advanced robotics.
In additive manufacturing (known as 3-D printing for less complex products), a structure is built up without creating waste, by layering materials with computer guidance. Lightweight yet stronger and more durable than metals, composites are increasingly used in construction, aircraft, rail, autos, wind turbine blades, and even in golf clubs and fishing rods –and new applications are certain to develop. Being lighter, composite materials also are greener. Once steel is replaced with 70% lighter composites in railcars, for example, energy is then expended to pull more freight rather than to power the train itself. Structures made with composites also lend themselves to combining technologies, such as building-in the electronics instead of adding them post-fabrication.
Capabilities of the new facility were previewed March 27 at the AMMTIC Composite Manufacturing Conference. Its purpose was to get input as to what the Tier 3 and Tier 4 suppliers, representing the majority of LI’s manufacturers, would need in equipment and support to win bids in the supply chain from the large enterprises, or OEMs, which integrate and assemble complex finished goods.
For further information about the Composite Center, contact Phil at [email protected].
New Composite Center – “Game Changer”
Long Island has long been proud to be a center of innovation for New York State. Now, the sandy beaches and coastal winds that enhance our life here could provide the next big technological breakthrough to again make us a national leader.
Energy generated by offshore wind has been a steady form of reliable, clean electricity in Europe and China for years. Now, the U.S. is getting closer to bringing this innovative renewable energy source to our shores – and Long Island is well positioned to benefit from this tremendous, untapped resource. Responsibly-sited offshore wind farms can take advantage of steady sea breezes that tend to be strongest when we use the most energy, while still protecting critical marine and ocean ecosystems. Investment by states and utilities in offshore wind projects creates local jobs and leads to more stable long-term energy costs that won’t fluctuate like natural gas prices have done, thus boosting our economy and better protecting our families and businesses from spiking energy bills.
Additionally, investing in renewable energy moves us away from the dirty fuels that pollute the air our kids breathe and worsen the devastation of climate disruption. Sandy showed us firsthand the disastrous impacts of more intense storms, so we know we can’t continue on a path that produces more of these dangerous and costly extreme weather events. States all along the Atlantic Coast are moving to bring offshore wind power to the U.S. In March, Maryland was the latest state to pass legislation to require utilities to purchase electricity generated by offshore wind. Their law promotes workforce development through a $10 million fund to help small and minority businesses prepare to participate in the offshore wind supply chain. In Massachusetts, the Cape Wind project recently announced they’ve secured the necessary financing to begin construction this year on what will likely be the nation’s first project to get steel in the water.
We have to act quickly to make sure Long Island doesn’t get left behind and miss out on the promise of this new industry. A study commissioned by the New York Power Authority reported that just one offshore wind project could create more than 4,000 new jobs in construction, installation
and operations and maintenance and generate $1 billion in wages.
There are two potential projects off Long Island that could transform the way we power our homes and businesses. The projects off Montauk and the Rockaways face different paths forward, but both depend on a commitment from LIPA and strong support from Governor Cuomo.
The Montauk site 30 miles off the coast is part of a larger project by Deepwater Wind to build a series of offshore wind farms spanning from Long Island to Rhode Island. LIPA has a critical opportunity to invest in, and benefit from this project through their upcoming renewable energy procurement process that is set to begin in July. They squandered a previous opportunity to make a larger commitment to the project in October, before Superstorm Sandy, when they chose to build more climate disrupting natural gas plants instead. Now, the Montauk project is back on the table and LIPA’s customers can’t afford for them to miss another opportunity to invest the future.
The second project 13-17 miles off the coast of the Rockaways is being explored by the Long
Island-New York City Offshore Wind Collaborative, a working group made up of LIPA, the New York Power Authority and ConEd. Recently, the agency in charge of federal waters, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), took the first step toward making that site available with a comment period to solicit local input and determine interest in developing the site. Now Governor Cuomo and the Collaborative need to demonstrate a serious commitment to financing and developing the project in order to encourage BOEM to move quickly to grant a lease for the site. A locally based project could not only bring jobs to Long Island, but also help reinvigorate the economies of storm-ravaged Staten Island and Queens. The states that act first to invest in offshore wind stand to gain the biggest economic benefits from the manufacturing, supply chain and new business operations of the growing industry. We can’t let Long Island miss out on this tremendous economic opportunity that will mean cleaner air, good jobs and more thriving businesses. If LIPA and Governor Cuomo work together to aggressively invest in offshore wind, they could again position Long Island a leader in innovation, and as hub for the 21st century clean energy economy.
Long Island’s Opportunity for a Healthy, Prosperous Future
By Peter Gollon, Energy Chair, Long Island Sierra Club
15 “Economic Impact Assessment: Long Island-New York City Offshore Wind Project”, prepared for
New York Power Authority by AWS Truepower LLC and Camoin Associates, Inc
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About a decade ago, big proposals were in play to build both large and small new generation plants to meet Long Island’s burgeoning power appetite and to lay a cross-Sound electrical conduit as well as a natural gas pipeline. With his experience in construction law, and as a former LIPA trustee, Michael L. Faltischek was in demand for his knowledge of the energy industry’s legal and financial complexities.
As founding partner of Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, P.C., he established the Energy Law Practice Group within its Corporate & Securities Department. He has built a multi-disciplinary corporate legal team with expertise in environmental regulations, real estate, zoning and land acquisition, IDA and municipal development incentives, litigation, government relations, financial services, and construction law, among other specialties.
Predictably, not all of that period’s ambitious plans moved ahead. “In our region, we often lack dexterity to get things done,” Faltischek says. “Once you identify what your needs are, you should find a way to get to solutions quickly.” For example, the Caithness LI Energy Center − a 350 MW extra low-emissions, cost-efficient base load power plant in Yaphank −was the first major new Long Island plant to come on line in 50 years. First proposed in 2002, it finally opened in August 2009, now supplying nearly 20% of LIPA’s power needs. “That’s a slow process,” Faltischek says. Building a plant should take 30 months with environmental reviews adding another 18 months. The extra time only adds to project costs and, therefore, what a person pays for electricity.
Of Long Island’s aging power generation facilities, Faltischek says, “It’s like driving a 50 year old car; maintaining these
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old plants just costs too much.” In due course, LIPA should have another efficient new power generation plants. It has been deliberating for the past 18 months between the choice of two facility types and builders, and RMF-PC is representing one of those companies.
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s ambitious proposal to build new transmission lines running North to South, stopping at NYC (the NYS Energy Highway),would be helpful but insufficient for Long Island’s needs. “My view is that it is imperative that Long Island itself generate and distribute enough power to meet all basic day-in-and-out needs,” Faltischek says. For peak demand times, during heat waves, importing power would still be required, he says, but with Long Island situated at the tail end of the electrical system, its 2.8 million people are not well served by externally sourced power, even if it is cheaper.
Faltischek is a member of the Long Island Association’s Special Energy-Committee, which prepared the LIA’s recently issued response to The Governor’s proposal to privatize LIPA: now would not be the right time, the committee said. The LIA noted that while private entities have their efficiencies, LIPA, as a government authority is eligible, thankfully, to obtain about 90% reimbursement of Superstorm Sandy costs from FEMA. That leaves ratepayers with a burden of $80 million, contrasted with an investor-owned utility such
calls for Long Island power independencelawyer to the energy industry,FALTISCHEK
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as Con Edison, which cannot tap FEMA funds, having to shoulder costs along with ratepayers that may total $1 billion. Falitschek’s law firm represents PSEG, the utility that will succeed National Grid in January, 2014. PSEG, as LIA and others favor, will likely manage the storm response when LI’s next big weather event strikes.
Faltischek commends Brookhaven National Laboratory and The Advanced Energy Research & Technology Center (AERTC), as stellar examples of the region’s technological collaboration and leadership on energy innovation. He helped to establish AERTC, and as Vice Chair of its Advisory Board is called upon to analyze and structure funding of its operations. Renewable energy research and development is progressing well. However, he cautions, “Alternative energy solutions are still pricey and will take time to bear fruit. Given our 150 years of gas supply, we should, between now and then build our regional energy independence with highly efficient natural gas plants.” He is also Counsel to New York State Smart Grid Consortium.
Faltischek is engaged in a number of other professional, educational and civic activities. He is a founding member and Chairman of the Long Island Angel Network, which provides the region’s technological businesses and entrepreneurs with access to early stage capital. He sees his role with the Angel Network as dovetailing his work with the AERTC and the Smart Grid Consortium in providing funding to commercialize energy technology.
Falitschek has served in leadership and advisory roles with many community groups, including Camp Sunrise, The Theodore Roosevelt Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the Old Westbury Gardens Foundation, and the Frank G. Zarb School of Business at Hofstra University. He also served as Chairman of the Long Island Regional Board of the Anti-Defamation League, which protects human and civil rights.
Asked to explain his motivation to take leadership roles in those and other organizations, Faltischek says, “I join worthwhile groups and work to advance their interests. I don’t seek it, but people ask me to take on a larger role, which I am happy to do. I enjoy building a consensus in the decision-making process for the organization.
At the AERTC Energy Conference April 30-May 1 at the NYC Javits Center, Faltischek will chair a program on energy industry equity financing.
Michael L. Faltischek, is a Senior Partner of Ruskin MoscouFaltischek PC. Founded in 1968, the Uniondale, LI, firm has 60 professionals and 130 staff. With expertise in the law pertaining to energy, construction, the environment and financing, the firm often is instrumental to the advancement of Long Island’s major energy technology projects.
Michael Faltischek may be contacted at:[email protected] or 516-663-6550. Please visit the firm’s website at www.rmfpc.com.
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That’s the motto of dozens of researchers, entrepreneurs and corporate partners who work every day in Stony Brook University’s Advanced Energy Center™ (AERTC ) across a broad landscape from hydrogen fuels, batteries and fuel storage, enhanced photovoltaic cells and new polymeric materials, to energy harvesting, improved efficiency combustion processes, and advanced energy technologies for transportation, to a smart, resilient and cybersecure electric grid, facilitated by new approaches to energy policy grounded in deep domain knowledge and broad policymaking experience. Reflecting this broad mandate for a critical industry, the AERTC was recently designated a New York State Center of Excellence.
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“Reliable, Affordable and Environmentally Sound Energy for America’s Future”
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at SUNY Stony Brook Research and Development Park
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Leading Edge Research
A small sample of the frontier research being conducted in the Center includes:
Leading the Smart Grid. The energy industry is beginning its biggest technology revolution in a century, applying information technology to capture and use new avalanches of energy usage data to monitor, manage, model, and protect the electric grid. The Center houses the energy modeling and forecasting and grid cybersecurity labs for the LI Smart Energy Corridor, a US Department of Energy Smart Grid Demonstration Project partnering LIPA and Farmingdale State College with Stony Brook University.
In 2009, the AERTC gave birth to the New York State Smart Grid Consortium (NYSSGC), the nation’s most diverse Smart Grid organization, with membership across the energy value chain from energy producers and providers to national and state research and academic institutions, regulators, vendors, government agencies, and policymakers. The NYSSGC is dedicated to helping define and achieve New York’s strategic Smart Grid vision through the development and deployment of timely, efficient, cost-effective SG technologies, Earlier this year, the Consortium developed a white paper to address the creation of a more flexible,
efficient, and resilient grid that meets the state’s grid modernization challenges.
Leading Energy Storage. Batteries are the key not only to driving electric cars into the transportation mainstream but to maximize the efficiency of fossil fuel plants with peak-shaving technologies to integrate power from alternative and renewable sources into the grid when demand is high. Solar and wind energy are growing as a gridscale resource for electric power and without effective storage for these intermittent energy sources, they can’t be relied on 24/7/365 to keep the lights on. National Medal of Technology winner Dr. Esther Takeuchi has just completed the equipping of battery chemistry, battery fabrication and battery packaging laboratories including a state of the art “dry room,” where humidity levels
are lower than any place on earth, equivalent to the level found on the moon. Experimental processing
under ultra low humidity conditions is necessary to prevent contamination of battery components.
Leading Solar Energy. A solar energy lab developing high power laser-based surface modification of solar
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Nurturing the Next Generation
The strong commitment of the Center’s New York State Senate sponsors, including Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Senator Kenneth LaValle, to foster the growth of new enterprises that will help lead this new industry for the state and provide “green” jobs for New Yorkers is apparent in the Center’s incubation program. In addition to collaborating with many extramural start-ups, the Center provides dedicated space onsite for five new companies that are commercializing pioneering energy technologies. They include:
• ThermoLift. Working with University Mechanical Engineering researchers, this company is developing a novel technology that not only provides effective warming in cool climates, but also acts in place of central air conditioning in the summer. An early stage investment of $1.5 million by members of the Long Island Angel Network in partnership with a regional venture fund will complete a working prototype.
• Solar Cool Technologies. A past winner of the Stony Brook DARE student entrepreneurship competition and recipient of a high six-figure LIAN investment, this company is developing a solar battery-powered cooler for recreational, healthcare and military applications.
• Energystics has filed many patent applications for the wave energy harvesting technology it is developing, while Yuco Optics is developing more precise and powerful lasers for solar energy, industrial processes and other applications.
The Center is also the home of the Clean Energy Business Incubation Program (CEBIP), supported by a grant to the Long Island High Technology Incubator funded by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to provide programs and services to promote the growth of New York’s cleantech sector.
cells to improve efficiency and thereby affordability is equipped with robotics equipment donated by Rockwell Automation (Yaphank) to fully automate these processes, enabling more rapid process iterations and faster results than humans can achieve.
Leading Energy Harvesting. An R&D 100 Award-winning researcher who is recapturing energy from vibration in such diverse sources as automobile shock absorbers, railroad ties and the sway of ever-taller skyscrapers, has a half-million-dollar state-of-the-art 3D Laser Vibrometer on permanent loan to facilitate rapid characterization of the energy obtained from these resources.
Leading Bioenergy. The director of the University’s National Science Foundation Industry University Cooperative Research Center in Bioenergy Research and Development has just completed construction of a Low Carbon Research Laboratory in the Center focusing on biofuels and bio-inspired energy sources. He and all of the Center’s researchers have been attracted by the Center’s state-of-the-art research infrastructure, where they are able “rent” by the hour both equipment – including an AFM (Atomic Force Microscope), SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) and TEM (Transmission Electron Microscope) – and skilled technicians/operators, rather than having to expend limited R&D funds on large capital investments.
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Walking the Talk
Not only home to leading edge R&D programs, the Center facility is a living embodiment of its mission. Its construction and operation walk the talk every day.
• The 50,000 sf building, designed by Flad Architects, is the first LEED® Platinum research facility in New York State.
• Solar tube skylights pull a dramatic amount of “ducted daylight” into the second floor’s open office space producing up to 20,500 lumens each and reducing energy usage by up to 80%.
• A south-facing array of polycrystalline photovoltaic panels mitigates heat gain, diffuses the harsh daylight and gathers energy producing 10kW of output power.
• European chilled beam technology induces room air across cooling coils, reducing the primary air flow from the central air system by 30% and saving 48,000kWh per year.
• Every item of construction material was delivered from within a 500-mile radius of the site.
• 91% of construction waste was recycled, diverting more than 540 tons from landfills.
• Because the site landscaping uses native and adaptive plantings, 0% of potable water is used for landscape irrigation.
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Because the Park, as well as the Center, seeks to live its mission, the bus fleet that transports passengers between the Park and the University’s campuses on a half-hourly schedule consists of one fully electric vehicle and three hybrid conversions, seeking to achieve a zero emissions standard. All of the buses were designed and produced by ElectroMotive Designs (Ronkonkoma), a beneficiary of campus business, marketing, technical and programmatic assistance and long-time partner of the SPIR (Strategic Partnership for Industrial Resurgence) Program of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, which provides advanced technology assistance across the spectrum of engineering disciplines.
Currently on the drawing board is a plan to augment the four existing DOE-funded ChargePoint electric vehicle charging stations in the Center’s parking lot with a dual function “roof” of thin film photovoltaic panels. Donated by MiaSolé, the panels will generate 30kW of output power while shading the cars beneath, reducing the typical parking lot “heat island effect.” PVPowered has donated the systems inverters.
Communities of Innovation
The Advanced Energy Center™ is the second of ten new buildings, totaling 830,000 sf, that are planned for the University’s 245-acre Research & Development Park, directly adjacent to the western edge of the campus. Inspired by the late John H. Marburger, former University President, Brookhaven Lab Director and presidential science adviser, they are envisioned as “Communities of Innovation” where academic, institutional and industry researchers will collaborate to develop the technologies the world will depend on in the years and decades to come. The technology focus areas planned for the Park include information technology, cleantech, healthcare and biomedicine, and security – key innovation-driven industry clusters that will propel the economic future of our region and state.
Advanced Energy Conference 2013
AERTC is a multidisciplinary energy Center of Excellence for a state whose large and diverse energy infrastructure and economy supports almost 20 million citizens distributed across a highly diverse geography. Therefore its mission is to foster communication and interaction statewide.
The Center’s Advanced Energy Conference series, now in its 7th year, provides an unparalleled forum for these many constituencies, at the national as well as state and regional levels, to exchange technology, research, policy, and best energy practices. The conference has grown to include attendees from as many as 31 states and 15 countries, representing 533 different entities, including 37 academic Institutions, 10 national laboratories and 6 US military organizations.
This year’s event, at New York City’s Javits Center on April 30th and May 1st, will draw an estimated 1600 attendees to hear 343 speakers further define the pathway toward a sustainable energy economy. Conference information may be found at www.aertc.org/conference2013/
Jim Smith, Stony Brook University Vice President for Economic Development, has organized the Advanced Energy Conference 2013 on behalf of the University and AERTC. He works tirelessly year round to sustain the relationships that make the Conference a true statewide event. Prior to his joining Stony Brook, Smith had successfully directed the North American Rockwell installation in Yaphank.
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After capping his 40-plus year career in the energy industry as Chairman of National Grid U.S., one of the nation’s largest utilities, Robert B. Catell hasn’t slowed down. One of the guiding spirits behind the creation of the AERTC, he now helps drive its future as Chair of the Board of Advisors as well as Chair of the New York State Smart Grid Consortium, one of the Nation’s largest and most diverse constituency organizations devoted to advancement of development and deployment of Smart Grid technologies. He also finds time to serve on the Board of Directors of the Long Island Angel Network, where he collaborates with other angel investors in evaluating technologies across a wide landscape of technology sectors.
“Right now is the most exciting period in the history of the energy industry in my lifetime,” he recently commented. “Who would have believed even five years ago that our country would be well on the way not only to energy independence but to becoming an energy exporter? And at the same time we have started to deploy the first generation of “smart” tools that give both utility energy suppliers and consumers a level of control over energy delivery and use that was unimaginable for most of my career. That’s why I’m thrilled to be part of the AERTC. Our researchers and our thought leaders are helping to create the future of the most important industry in our economy. It’s great to be part of that effort.”
Mr. Catell’s passion for education is well served as Chairman of the Cristo Rey Brooklyn High School, which provides a quality college preparatory education to lower income inner city youths, who participate in a work-study program, which provides the students with work experience, the school with funding for scholarships, and the participation of companies with highly motivated student workers.
Mr. Catell serves on the Board of the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA) and the NYS Economic Development Power Allocation Board (EDPAB). He also serves on the Board of the not-for-profit organizations: Brooklyn Community Foundation, City College of New York 21st Century Foundation, Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, National Grid Foundation, Tomorrow’s Hope Foundation, the New York City Police Foundation and Futures in Education.
Mr. Catell is a former Chair of the American Gas Association, Partnership for New York City, and Long Island Association, and received both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the City College of New York; he is a registered Professional Engineer.
Dr. Yacov Shamash, known to industry leaders through Long Island as simply “The Dean,” has served as Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Stony Brook University since 1992 and Vice President for Economic Development since 2000. The citation marking his induction into the Long Island Technology Hall of Fame in 2011 read in part, “No one has made more extensive contributions to Long Island’s ongoing transition from one of the nation’s most defense aerospace-dependent economic regions to a diverse and vibrant high technology regional economy. His career has been marked by firsts . . . “ – a list too long to quote in its entirety but relevant here is its inclusion of New York’s first and only multi-disciplinary Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center, which has given birth to–
• New York State Smart Grid Consortium, an unprecedented collaboration of utilities, research, academia, government, regulators, and vendor industries, and
• New York Energy Policy Institute, unique in the nation for joining technology depth with policy expertise
• First LEED certification training programs on Long Island in collaboration with the U.S. Green Buildings Council
Commenting recently on the diversity of research activities in the AERTC, Dr. Shamash, who trained as an electrical engineer at Imperial College of Technology in London, said, “We wanted to have a multidisciplinary, multi-faceted research program because we didn’t want to try to pick winners. The results show it’s worked. The Principal Investigator of the energy harvesting lab won an R&D 100 Award last year, another researcher is using specialized lasers to improve the manufacturing
processes and efficiency of solar films, and a National Medal of Technology winner recently established one of the nation’s best-equipped research labs for battery technology. That’s the key not only to electric cars but to integrating renewables into the electric grid. And we’ve only just begun!”
He pointed out the importance of the Center’s location in the University’s R&D Park, a 245-acre site where ten buildings are planned as home to “communities of innovation” to support the industry sectors driving the region’s economic future. “The AERTC’s Virtual Smart Grid actually resides on servers in the data center in CEWIT [New York State Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology] and the collaborations between AERTC researchers and their CEWIT colleagues, using facilities like the one-of-a-kind Reality Deck for ‘immersive visualization’ of the region’s entire energy grid, are promoting the development of new Smart Grid technologies.
Multidisciplinary collaboration is the pathway to innovation and that’s what the Park is designed for.”
Robert B. Catell, The CEO: Bringing Industry and Research Together Dr. Yacov Shamash,
“The Dean” – Getting Out Front
Ann-Marie Scheidt,Director of Economic Development, SUNY-Stony Brook University
Ann-Marie Scheidt is Director of Economic Development and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Technology and Society. She co-authored the proposals that won Stony Brook the DOE Long Island Smart Energy Corridor Smart Grid Demonstration Project award from the US Department of Energy and the Clean Energy Business Incubation Program and New York State Energy Policy Institute from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, and well as its first New York State Center for Advanced Technology (medical biotechnology).
She serves as Vice Chair of The Community Development Corporation of Long Island the region’s largest not-for-profit affordable housing and community economic development organization, which administers the Long Island Green Homes and Buildings Consortium..
Dr. Scheidt is immediate past chair of the Business Incubator Association of New York State, which represents almost 40 such programs around the state, and was a moving spirit behind the creation of the Long Island Angel Network, which she currently serves as Executive Director. She founded the Stony Brook DARE Student Entrepreneurship Competition in 2005. The Competition has awarded more than $200,000 to 11 student start-up businesses eight
are still in business and this year went regional with participants from Farmingdale State and Hofstra. She is a Director of the Hauppauge Industrial Association (HIA), which represents the largest industrial park in the Northeast.
Dr. Gerald Stokes
As Associate Laboratory Director for Global and Regional Solutions, Dr. Gerald Stokes leads Brookhaven Lab’s Energy Sciences and Technology Department, Nonproliferation and National Security Department, and the Office of Technology Commercialization and Partnerships. The goal of the new directorate is to increase Brookhaven’s strength in applied science and engineering, especially in the areas of energy and national security and the Laboratory’s impact through the deployment of technology. His work has emphasized the interaction of energy and environmental needs, as the founding Director of the Joint Global Change Research Institute, Chief Scientist of DOE’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program and Senior Advisor on Energy and Laboratory Management for Battelle International Partnerships. Even before becoming President of NYEPI, he has been a leading resource for state policymakers, for example, regarding implementation of the New York 80 by 20 plan to reduce GHG emissions from all sources within the state to a level 80% below the 1990 level by 2050.
Dr. Guodong Sun
NYEPI Executive Director Dr. Guodong Sun is an Assistant Professor of Technology Assessment in the Department of Technology and Society in Stony Brook’s College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He applies tools and insights from engineering, natural science, economics, and management science to address policy issues in energy systems, environmental pollution control, and in the innovation of large-scale and complex technological systems. He has served as a Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and at Carnegie Mellon, he conducted assessments of advanced energy technologies, studied China’s air pollution management and advised the Chinese government on matters of energy policy and global climate change.
Kathleen Ferrell
Managing events and other SBU/Engineering and Economic Development projects on the scale of the AERTC Conference calls upon all of Kathleen Ferrell’s considerable resources of energy, iron determination, tact, and unflappability. She applies these capabilities internally to handle human resources matters. She also serves on the College Council for Farmingdale State College, its gubernatorially-appointed policymaking body.
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New York Energy Policy Institute (NYEPI), www.nyepi.us, was established to advise the State on a statewide foundation of excellence in policy and energy science and technology research (conventional, alternative and renewable, and emerging), with the primary charge of producing the best knowledge to inform the State’s energy policymaking process. NYEPI serves as the focal point for New York research and outreach on energy policy, as well as a bridge between the energy policy research community, government, and stakeholders including the public and business. NYEPI brings together premier technology and policy resources from across the state to advise and perform energy policy analysis, and to produce white papers, policy studies and recommendations that are grounded in a broad and deep understanding of energy systems and the current and emerging technologies that will shape their innovation and use.
NYEPI, a consortium of 15 research universities and a national lab in New York, is housed in the Advanced Energy Center at Stony Brook University. Our current members are Stony Brook University, Brookhaven National Lab, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Syracuse University, SUNY at Buffalo, SUNY at Albany, New York University, New York University Polytech, Clarkson University, Columbia University, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, SUNY at Binghampton, City University of New York, University of Rochester, Cornell University.
NYEPI has identified more than a thousand energy experts in these organizations, and has developed an online searchable expert database. They include policy scientists, behavior economists, chemists, environmental scientists, mathematicians, computer scientists, and engineering professors in a wide variety of disciplines. Their combined expertise covers all the major energy issues. This database has successfully helped us to identify experts for a variety of research and advising needs.
NYEPI has made impacts on energy policymaking at federal, state, and local levels. NYEPI reviewed and provided comments on energy bills (e.g., U.S. Senate bill on plug-in hybrid electric vehicles), peer reviewed studies on solar energy in New York State, analyzed technology gaps of major renewable energies and recommended priority areas for research, development, demonstration and deployment (RD3).
Dynamic Islanding for Grid Reliability Being Studied
NYEPI is now working on several projects to address important energy issues in New York. They include a study of dynamic islanding as an accelerant for grid restoration and enhancement to grid reliability, an integrated assessment of the roles of microgrid systems in the New York, and a study on the water implications of bioenergy production and use. These—and our future—studies will bring enormous tangible and intangible benefits to New York. For instance, our analysis on dynamic islanding as an emergency response measure will produce useful information for demonstration-project testing of its technological, economic, regulatory feasibilities in practice. Hurricanes Irene and Sandy and winter storms (e.g. Nemo) caused major outages in New York. Dynamic islanding, the creation of ad hoc microgrids, is an innovative approach to mitigate the impacts of grid outages on customer power supply through the utilization and dispatch of distributed energy resources (e.g., generation, storage).
NYEPI has a long-term goal of developing a strong, dynamic, and networked community in New York that conducts energy policy research and advises policymakers. By taking an unbiased and nonpartisan approach, while recognizing the political realities as an inevitable part of the policymaking process, NYEPI has great potential in shaping the energy and environment future in New York and beyond.
NYEPI ties together 1000 research, tech and policy resources to advance Solar, Hybrid, Renewables, and Grid Security
by Dr. Guodong Sun and Dr. Gerald Stokes
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You may have heard this phrase, but may not be sure what it means. You should though…because these vehicles are becoming more common on Long Island every day. They save Long Islanders money and improve the quality of the air we breathe.
Alternative Fuel Vehicles are vehicles that run on fuels other than petroleum. They can run on electricity, biodiesel, propane, compressed natural gas (CNG), ethanol (E85) or hydrogen. Each year Long Island continues to increase the number of alternative fuel vehicles on the road, as well as the alternative fuel infrastructure to support them. This year is no exception.
A number of organizations across Long Island, among them the Greater Long Island Clean Cities Coalition (GLICCC), the Sustainability Institute at Molloy College, Vision Long Island and the Electric Auto Association and others, work diligently to promote the use of alternative fuels and alternative fuel vehicles. Each year, GLICCC prepares a Clean Cities Annual Report for their coalition with the U.S. Department of Energy. Included in this report is the amount of diesel fuel offset (not used because those vehicle miles were traveled using alternative fuel vehicles) on Long Island. In 2010, the use of alternative fuel vehicles on Long Island led to over 10.4 million gallons of diesel fuel being offset. In 2011, that number jumped by 35% to over 14.1 million gallons offset.
The numbers for 2012 are still being calculated, but early estimates show an additional jump of 6 – 7%, which translates to over 15 million gallons offset for the year. That equates to more than 357,000 barrels of oil that will not be purchased (likely from overseas), that will not be exhausted into the air above Long Island, and that will not be inhaled by us. The estimate of diesel fuel offset in 2011 also translates to a reduction of over 30,560 tons of greenhouse gases. Why do these numbers continue to improve? There are a number of factors. Long Islanders owe a lot of this improvement to local municipalities. From one end of the island to the other, local government has added alternative fuel vehicles to their fleets. Nassau County’s entire fleet of nearly 400 NICE buses runs on natural gas. Many municipal sanitation fleets, including but not limited to, are the Village of East Rockaway, the Town of Oyster Bay and the Town of Smithtown, have fleets running on CNG.
A growing number of Long Island school districts include alternative fuel buses as part of their school bus fleets. Some of the first school districts to move forward with alternative fuel buses include: Long Beach Public Schools (CNG), Middle Country Central School District (CNG), Roslyn Public Schools (propane) and the Riverhead Central School District (Propane). In addition to improving the bottom line on their fuel costs, they have reduced their children’s exposure to harmful diesel fumes.
Other fuels, including ethanol and biodiesel, contribute to the Island’s overall diesel fuel reduction. Nationally, biodiesel showed record production in 2012, with capacity to expand. This leads to more vehicles in both public and private sectors, running on biodiesel.
Electric Vehicles (EVs) are another area where the Island has seen improvement. Hybrid vehicles like the Toyota Prius are a common sight on our roads, but mixed in with these are other entries in this category such as the Chevy Volt, Nissan Leaf and even the occasional Tesla. Long Island has more than 30 public electric charging stations, many of which do not currently charge a fee for you to plug in your vehicle. In his State of the State speech earlier this year, Governor Andrew Cuomo introduced the Charge New York Program, to encourage additional EV infrastructure statewide. “We want to create the Charge New York program,” he said. “This is the future, my friends, and we want to invest in an electric car network to reduce reliance on fossil fuels, installing a statewide network of charging stations and have New York be one of the forerunners …(in the race to have a clean tech economy).”
On April 25th and 26th, GLICCC will be hosting two free alternative fuel workshops. The morning session will focus on EVs, with the afternoon session dedicated to CNG and propane. These workshops will focus on how municipalities and school districts can implement alternative fuel use programs. On May 3rd, GLICCC will also host a CNG event, geared toward private fleets. If you are interested in learning more about alternative fuels, these workshops are a good starting point. Contact the GLICCC office at: [email protected] for more details.
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The Stony Brook bus fleet of electric and hybrid vehicles comes close to achieving a zero-emission standard.
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On Friday, March 22, Farmingdale State College hosted its second annual International Energy & Sustainability Conference, an all-day event focused on the technologies of today and tomorrow that can help us avert environmental degradation – from greenhouse gasses, carbon emissions, atmospheric pollutants and radioactive waste – and achieve a sustainable future based on renewable energy.
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Partners with Renewable Energy Leaders for 2nd Annual Environmental Sustainability Conference
by Pamela Winikoff
“The International Energy & Sustainability Conference 2013: Renewables in Smart Grid Technology for a Sustainable Future,” brought together the latest researchers and developers in the area of sustainable energy. Subject matter experts discussed new and emerging technologies and highlighted several of the intrinsic policy challenges involved in migrating our existing fossil fuels-based economy to an economy rebuilt around clean energy sources. Well attended by students and faculty, the conference also drew small and large business representatives and members of the public seeking to learn about energy-saving technologies for their homes and businesses.
Dr. W. Hubert Keen Kicks off ProceedingsDr. W. Hubert Keen, President of the SUNY Farmingdale, jump-started the day’s proceedings with a Welcome Address that chronicled the evolution of the conference from its roots as a solar energy initiative born over a decade ago. He cited the College’s role as a public education partner to the U.S. Department of Energy and LIPA in its Smart Grid initiatives and underscored the College’s devotion to green initiatives citing its early beginnings as a School of Applied Agriculture.
Suffolk County Executive Distinguishes The County as Nationwide Pioneer in Energy ConservationIn his Opening Remarks, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone discussed several ground breaking initiatives that have transpired here at the local level to position Suffolk County as a leader in energy conservation. These include the Town of Babylon becoming the first on Long Island to adopt Energy Star® standards for residential construction and Wyandanch Rising, a pioneering community-development project that was selected by The United States Green Building Council (USGBC) as one of ten in the nation to comply with LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standards for Neighborhood Development.
An outspoken advocate for “green building initiatives,” Mr. Bellone applauded the environmental sustainability initiatives taking place at the local level through SUNY Farmingdale, LIPA, and many leading
local organizations while cautioning that our focus on climate change has been distracted with potentially devastating effects, “Our future economically and otherwise is dependent on our ability to create a clean energy economy. This focus seems to have gotten away from us. We’ve had tornadoes, hurricanes, wild fires and record blizzards in the last two years with unprecedented levels of occurrence. At some point we have to come to terms with the fact that these are not isolated events and that they are likely to continue and get worse over time. We need to build better, smarter ways to achieve a sustainable, viable future.”
Dr. Kamal Shahrabi Discusses Innovative Alternative Energy Demo Sites on CampusDr. Kamal Shahrabi, Dean of Farmingdale’s School of Engineering outlined a number of Smart Grid Demonstration sites on the School’s campus that are nearing completion. These include: a small wind turbine farm, solar photovoltaic (PV) car port and electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, plug- In hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) training lab, Smart Grid commercial/industrial Center and a Smart Grid House. It is anticipated that these sites will be completed this summer. The University is also offering live workshops and webinars on sustainable energy practices, a small scale wind workshop and solar thermal installation workshop beginning in May. Interested parties should contact the College for more information.
Dr. Richard Perez’s Keynote Address Focuses on Cost Justification of Solar PowerDr. Richard Perez, Research Professor at SUNY Albany’s Atmospheric Sciences Research Center and an Advisory Board member of the GW Solar Institute at George Washington delivered the Keynote Address. His presentation focused on the value of solar power and whether it can be cost-justified. Through his persuasive slideshow he demonstrated clearly that the world’s energy demands can be supported 100% through photovoltaic energy and that the value of solar energy far outweighs its cost.
High-Powered Panel Discussion The conference also included a panel discussion on local and regional policies and Initiatives in promoting renewable technologies and energy conservation. Moderated by LIPA’s Michael Deering , the panel included talks by: Adrienne Esposito of Citizens Campaign for the Environment (CCE), Gordian Raacke of Renewable Energy Long Island (RELI); Sail Van Nostrand of New York Solar Energy Industries Association (NYSEIA); William Feldmann of Long Island Solar Energy Industries Association (LISEIA); Valerie Strauss of Alliance for Clean Energy (ACE) and Guy Sliker of New York Power Authority (NYPA).
Tesla Science Center Saved by Remarkable Social Media CampaignA presentation by the Tesla Science Center concluded the series of morning proceedings. The one-time home of the Tesla Tower, a proof-of-concept a wireless transmission tower designed by Nicola Tesla, the tower was intended to support commercial trans-Atlantic wireless telephony, broadcasting and demonstration of wireless power transmission though it was never fully operational and ultimately was demolished in 1917. A former Superfund site now cleaned of photo-emulsions, Shoreham is being developed as a museum and science and arts education center, in large measure thanks to the phenomenal results of a social media
Dr. Majaneh Issapour chairs the IESC-2013 ConferenceProfessor Marjaneh Issapour chaired the conference day and led one of its panel discussions, “Energy Conservation & Sustainability,” which reviewed Long Island’s water quality issues and efforts within the North Shore Hospital System to achieve energy savings. Since joining Farmingdale State in 1990, with expertise in electric engineering and in networking software, she has taught, worked on the development of Hybrid Photo Voltaic Systems, and designed the college’s networking laboratory.
campaign to raise nearly $1.4 million to prevent the land from being sold to developers so that the museum can be built.
Break-out Sessions and Mini-Trade ShowThe Conference also included afternoon breakout sessions with four parallel tracks and a mini trade show with local area vendors in the architectural, legal, solar power, engineering, clean energy and other sustainable energy companies and organizations.
With Earth Day only weeks in the wake of the Conference, the day’s events brought to light the need to rethink our priorities, rebuild our infrastructure and renew our commitment to revitalizing the planet through our dedication to the Three R’s: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. With our refocusing on renewables and smart grid technology we can see our future as foreseeable.
From its roots in 1912 as an ag-tech college which brought innovations to Long Island farmers while being responsive to environmental concerns, Farmingdale State College has grown today—in its 100th year—in both size and prestige as the SUNY system’s premier green-technology campus. The College doesn’t just teach applied technologies but also proves them feasible with its nationally significant demonstration projects. Moreover, it prepares students to fill the jobs which renewable technologies are creating and brings awareness to the wider community.
“We know we are getting more attention and the institution is realizing more of its potential, though we still have a way to go,” according to Dr. W. Hubert Keen, President. The College is home to the Green Building Institute established by President Keen through a federal appropriation. The institute trains municipalities in the conception, design, and construction of environmentally-friendly buildings. The College also boasts the first Solar Energy Center in the Northeast, is a partner in a Smart Grid project, is planning a small wind turbine farm, and is conducting research in the conversion of biomass into renewable energy.
Both to anticipate the rise of electric cars and to encourage their spread, the campus has electric-car charging stations and a repair shop, where students can train. This July, a house that is optimally ‘green’ will open on campus. It will utilize three types
of energy as it models new technologies and practices, and invite the public to visit.
Terming it the “Farmingdale Forward” agenda, the College also is in the midst of a $185 million capital campaign, which has produced a new Campus Center, opened in January, a new School of Business, and a spectacular renovation of Hale Hall, home of the bioscience and visual communications departments. The agenda also includes ambitious enrollment growth, hiring of distinguished new faculty, and new graduate level degree programs. The College, now serves 8,000 students, including 600 in its residence halls, and as such is the largest applied technology campus in the SUNY system.
The Smart Grid Corridor Project is well underway, with LIPA installing 600 smart meters in homes and businesses along Route 110 that will capture and relay information in real time about consumers’ energy usage. That will lead to creation of a more efficient and secure energy grid that responds to actual demand and protects against threats. Farmingdale State happens to sit in the center of The Corridor.
“Now, as a partner with Stony Brook and LIPA in the Smart Grid Corridor project, we are better able to educate our students through the funding we receive from this project, while we also fulfill our designated project role of educating the wider community about its merits and importance,” Dr. Keen explains.
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Showcases Growing Size, Stature, Sustainable Leadership
Green Now”
“It’s all seamless.” Farmingdale students studying mechanical engineering, construction and architecture all have roles in the Smart Grid project.
In other respects, too, Farmingdale’s academic programs are designed to reflect trends in the workplace. “Our academic mission is to anticipate workforce needs and prepare our students in all technical areas, Dr. Keen says.
Dr. Kamal Shahrabi, Dean of the School of Engineering Technology views the College’s growing number of applicants and enrollment as proof that it is on the right track. The Engineering program alone has grown 50% to 1,200 students in the past five years. “As soon as we add more facilities, we will attract even more students,” he says. “The next decade will see many new jobs in the energy field,” he adds.
In fact, within one to two years, the College will likely offer new degree programs within the Engineering Department —a B.S. degree in Sustainable Energy Technology and an M.S. degree in Energy Technology Management—to meet workforce needs. Programs in transportation and cybersecurity are also planned. There are courses, too, in the new, fast growing field of composites design and fabrication, where jobs can’t be filled fast enough. The College additionally offers workshops for already-licensed contractors to become certified in the new renewable technology specialties.
The College’s internship program too has grown to include more than 600 students who work directly with leading regional and national organizations. Skilled positions await students upon graduation. With the goal of bringing more Long Island students into technology disciplines, the College held its third annual STEM Diversity Summit on March 19th, led by Dr. Veronica Henry, who is Executive Assistant to the President/Chief of Diversity.
President Keen – a Lifetime of Teaching and Leading Sustainability
Dr. Keen has served the State University of New York for over 35 years. He joined Farmingdale State College in 2005 and became President in 2007. This January, Governor Andrew Cuomo appointed him as a member of the Long Island Regional Economic Development Council. Prior to his return to Long Island, Dr. Keen served in SUNY’s central administration, where he was responsible for system-wide initiatives in teacher education and University collaboration with the state’s K-12 schools. Earlier, Dr. Keen had served as Interim President at SUNY College at Old Westbury and as Provost at York College/CUNY.
President Keen currently serves on the boards of the Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center at Stony Brook University, Project Grad Long Island, the LI Index Advisory Board, and chairs the LIRACHE Long Island Presidents-Superintendents Group. Most of Dr. Keen’s academic career was spent at SUNY Cortland, where he taught, chaired the Department of Biological Science, and served as Dean of Arts and Sciences. His teaching and research areas are in ecology, environmental science, aquatic biology and biostatistics. He holds a Ph.D. degree in ecology.
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There are hundreds of companies on Long Island and thousands in the Metropolitan New York area that tout their expertise in energy conservation, cost savings and services. Using an Energy Service Company, or, ESCO for the supply of natural gas is one of the easiest and most cost-effective ways to save on the natural gas commodity.
While New York and dozens of other states offer choices to natural gas and electric consumers, the business selection process is truly a buyer beware scenario. Some homework is required to make certain that one is working with a reliable firm. While choice can be a good thing, unfortunately there are a number of suppliers who charge a rate higher than the utilities --National Grid or Con Ed.
It is important to note that the utility delivery charges are regulated by the NY State Public Service Commission while the commodity charge is not. Further, in most cases the billing process doesn’t change. With an ESCO providing the natural gas, the customer continues to receive a bill from the utility and the customer continues to pay the utility in the normal manner. The supply usage is detailed in a specific area of the bill that shows the amount of natural gas expressed in therms and a rate per therm. Regardless of who supplord the commodity, the utility will continue to deliver the natural gas.
At one time, just as with telephone deregulation of the 1980’s when AT&T and the Baby Bells were the only game in town, many State government efforts to offer and support choice in the utility business were met with mixed results. It wasn’t until the late 1990’s when the sales tax was eliminated on the delivery portion of the utility bill in New York that more and more consumers took the leap. Today, residential and commercial customers have a choice among a number of licensed and registered ESCO’s. Many of these are based outside of New York in places such as Florida and Texas. Buyers should understand the options that best suit their needs. Some of the basics include understanding the available pricing mechanisms, the types of agreements and other options.
With a variable plan, as the name suggests, the pricing in this structure is market driven and changes monthly. In an environment where prices are stable or dropping this option offers the opportunity for savings. If market rates go down, you benefit. If rates rise, you will pay more.
A fixed plan provides price certainty. Similar to a fixed-rate mortgage product, you lock into a single rate for the term of the agreement, so you can project your natural gas spending throughout the period.
NYMEX plus a Fixed Adder is a popular plan that combines the best of the previous two plans: some market rate sensitivity along with fixing a portion of the rate. The base price is the NYMEX closing price published at the end of each month, plus a Fixed Adder that doesn’t change over the term of the agreement.
Consumers who choose the last type of plan can receive the benefits of lower pricing overall along with being able to have a predictable price over the course of a period of time.
With abundant domestic natural gas, pipeline delivery expansion and
conversions from oil-to-gas at an ever increasing pace, the future of natural gas is bright. It would be wise to expect an already crowded ESCO field to grow somewhat larger. Due diligence in the choice of an ESCO has never been more important.
JJT Energy is headquartered in Garden City, with a sales office in Rockville Centre. Founded in 2009, JJT has grown significantly in the New York market. JJT is the preferred provider for the Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre, has a long-term supply agreement with Suffolk County and some of its Towns and districts, and serves a major supermarket chain and other businesses on Long Island and in the metro area. Irwin Cooper serves as President and CEO and Robert Catell as Chairman of the Board. Tom Grech is responsible for JJT Energy’s sales operation, and may be contacted at 917.865.2699 or [email protected].
by Tom Grech, JJT Energy, an ESCO
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We see a record number of Long Island companies moving quickly to take advantage of Section 179D commercial building energy tax incentives currently scheduled to expire December 31st, 2013.
Companies are using the tax incentive to 1. Support energy efficient lighting projects particularly for low wattage long life LED lighting upgrades which are becoming increasingly popular and
2. For commercial building owners to benefit from low cost natural gas fuel costs by implementing oil to natural gas heating conversions and for upgrades to existing natural gas heating systems.
The federal government made two changes to the energy tax incentive law that are allowing more companies to qualify. 1. First the government announced that any commercial property owner who missed the Federal tax incentive all the way back to January 1.2006 is allowed to report the benefit on their next filed tax return without amending previously filed tax returns. This makes it very administratively convenient for Long Island companies to access their energy related tax savings regardless of when they completed their project.
2. The energy reduction requirements for the HVAC tax incentive including the heating incentive have been lowered allowing more commercial heating conversions to qualify for larger tax incentives.
Long Island has one of the highest electricity costs in the nation which means that Long Island businesses have to reduce their energy usage materially below the national average if they are going to remain competitive.
The Hauppauge Industrial Association (HIA) center coordinated effort to bench mark the energy usage of every building in the industrial park and encourage major energy reduction in Long islands leading business engine has helped Long Island’s business community understand the enhanced economic payback from combining energy cost reduction with utility rebates and tax savings.
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Is your business engaged in environmental or energy related technologies? Have you been in business for more than one year? Do you have less than 500 employees? Are you located in Nassau or Suffolk Counties? Are you a manufacturer or wholesale/btob? If you answered yes to all these questions, you may qualify for a fixed rate, long term loan from the NYS Targeted Loan Fund For Long Island. The Targeted Loan Fund was created by NYS and the US Dept Commerce/EDA to help industries like yours to thrive on Long Island. NYS and the EDA recognize the importance of these technologies to the LI community in terms of employment, quality of life, infrastructure support, etc. The loan funds can be used for any business purpose and the loan can combine with and be subordinate to loans from other lenders. You will have to demonstrate ability to repay the loan- either on historical numbers or on a projected basis. The loan maximum is $500,000. Collateral will vary depending on your company’s financial strength, the use of proceeds and the loan amount. Personal guarantees of the company’s owners are necessary.
The rate on the targeted loan is fixed for the life of the loan. Loan terms can go to 7-10 years for working capital; up to 20 years for fixed assets. Eligible borrowers must be organized as for-profit entities, be in business at least one year, and fall into an eligible industry. Environmental and energy related technology companies are eligible. If you are not in those industries, you may still be eligible if you are a manufacturer of any type or if you are wholesale/business to business and are in one of the following categories: pharmaceutical, computer software/hardware, high end electronics, computer graphics, transportation technology, bio medical, commercial fishing. You may also be eligible as a wholesaler which is certified by NYS as minority or woman owned or if located in a former NYS empire zone or if NYS excelsior certified. Confused yet? Well, don’t be- The Targeted Loan Fund is administered by the LI Development Corp. If you are interested or have questions, call them at 866 433 5432 or email at [email protected]. For more information- see www.lidc.org.
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Uniondale High School is implementing a Project-Based-Learning initiative with the Cradle of Aviation Museum. This is a new frontier in education that Dr. Florence Simmons, principal of Uniondale High School is determined to explore. She said, “Working directly with our community leaders our students will gain valuable experience in learning about all the benefits that can be derived from renewable energy”.
This sustainability & renewable energy project is designed to aid and equip the students to succeed by developing their S.T.E.M. skills, and preparing them for the jobs of the future.
Approximately one hundred ninth and tenth grade students who attend classes at the Cradle of Aviation Museum as part of a S.T.E.M Magnet Academy will be participating in this project.
This Interdisciplinary/Cross-Curricular Project will include the Sciences, Technology, English-Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, and Business.
The Uniondale High School students are attending the S.T.E.M Magnet Academy at the Cradle of Aviation Museum through funding from Nassau Community College’s GEAR UP and STEP Programs. Dr. Marilyn Monroe, the Director of Excellence in Education at Nassau Community College, has totally embraced this project and is looking to expand this type of initiative to other school districts. The project has two objectives: to educate the students in an exciting new way while introducing them the concept of sustainability and the various renewable energy technologies. Project-Based-Learning is a way for students to develop hands on skills, and exposure to real world situations.
Teams of students will work with local business and community leaders to create a feasible sustainability plan and business model that will include solar panels on the roof, and wind turbines outside the museum.
The Cradle of Aviation Museum has retained Donovan Gordon of D. Gordon Consulting, Inc. and Harold Hamilton of Global Resurrection, LLC as the project managers. Mr. Gordon and Mr. Hamilton were also retained by Uniondale High School to coordinate with the teachers, businesses in the renewable energy industry, and organizations focused on sustainability to implement this project-based-learning initiative, while tying aspects of the project into the student’s curriculum.
The students are very excited about being involved in this project. Daniel Clayton, one of the student project managers says “as students, as the next generation, it is OUR personal manifesto to assist in ushering an age where renewable energy is the source of power for the world.” This project will help the students learn the processes behind the mechanics of renewable energy technologies, as well as, develop the critical thinking skills involved with Project-Based-Learning Initiatives.
Mentors for the students are being supplied by Uniondale High Schools Industry Advisory Board (IAB), co-chaired by Jeannine Maynard and Catherine Khalifa. The Industry Advisory Board is a group made up of local business and community leaders who are committed to helping the students achieve their highest potential. The first thing the students did for this initiative was to help create a power point presentation, outlining the project, and then presenting it to school administrators and local elected officials. This was followed by a press conference at the Cradle
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Uniondale High School Students to design Renewable Energy Showcase at the Cradle of Aviation Museum
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of Aviation Museum to which local media outlets were invited.
The students also came up with the concept for the projects logo. Gabrielle Levine, the graphics art teacher, and the lead teacher advocate had each student create a poster with a sustainability theme.
There has been good support from companies, and organizations
based on long island. We feel that more companies will get involved once they hear about the success of this project, and understand the benefits to their company. LIPA is sponsoring an energy audit of the museum. TRC will conduct the energy audit, and a group of students will shadow the auditors and learn how the museum can save energy and money. EmPower Solar is working with the Cradle of Aviation Museum on the development, and implementation of the solar energy strategy. They will also help educate the students about the benefits solar energy. Vince Capogna, Executive Director of the United States Green Building Council Long Island Chapter (USGBC - LI) has offered assistance for this project thru their schools committee. Salvatore Ferrara, Director of the Electric Training Center of Long Island and a member of Uniondale High School Industry Advisory Board, has also pledged his support for this project.
At the end of this school year, the students will host a press conference and renewable energy showcase at the Cradle of
Aviation Museum. They will demonstrate their knowledge of sustainability, and showcase their work to teachers, parents, political, business and community leaders. This will include verbal presentations, artwork, and the application of renewable energy sources by powering appliances powered by solar panels and wind turbines that they help install.
Andrew Parton, Executive Director of the Cradle of Aviation Museum, believes the students will gain a tremendous amount of experience through this project that will benefit them for years to come. The project stands as a launching pad into the future of education. Its purpose is to effectively revolutionize classroom learning while aiding the community by bringing a clean source of renewable energy to the Cradle of Aviation Museum.
Dr. William K Lloyd, Superintendent of Uniondale School District is pleased with how this initiative is working, and is now looking to offer sustainability & renewable energy project-based-learning initiatives throughout the Uniondale school district. Other school districts are seeing the benefits of this cutting edge type of project-based-learning, and are showing interest in bringing this type of initiative to their school districts.
Mr. Gordon and Mr. Hamilton definitely believe this type of project-base-learning will benefit the students and prepare them for the jobs of the future. They are excited about the work they are doing with this project, and look forward to offering this
type of project to other school districts.
by: Donovan GordonPresidentD. Gordon Consulting, [email protected]
Superstorm Sandy has showed us what Long Island can expect from climate change. Rising seas and frequent storms could bring catastrophic storm surges and flooding where is has never been seen before. Long Island is on the front lines of climate change; we should take the lead in promoting clean energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The Long Island Carbon Footprint Project report recently released by NYIT shows that the largest contributor to Long Island’s greenhouse gas emissions is residential energy use. Heating, cooling and lighting our homes, and
running appliances and home electronics creates more than 38% of our region’s carbon footprint.
This is no surprise. Large portions of the Island were developed as bedroom communities, and more than half our homes were built before 1970, when energy was cheap, and the standards for conservation and efficiency were more lax. As a result, most of our homes waste energy.A blower-door test will help find air leaks that waste energy and money.
A blower-door test will help find air leaks that waste energy and money.
The audit provides information on the energy performance of your home and the measures that will improve its efficiency. It also includes important combustion safety testing that can find carbon monoxide and natural gas leaks in the home, which could be making your family sick.
Once you get the home energy audit report, you can
take advantage of incentives from LIPA and NYSERDA to help pay for energy improvements, such as improved insulation and air sealing, efficient lighting, and high efficiency heating and air-conditioning equipment.
On average, Long Island homeowners who go through the program can save about $1,000 on energy bills. If you take advantage of the low-cost financing available from NYSERDA, you are likely to save more in energy bills each month than your loan payment. You can save money from day one, while enjoying a more comfortable, safer, more valuable home.
All contractors that participate in the program are certified by the Building Performance Institute, and approved by LIPA and NYSERDA. The program provides quality assurance, checking contractors’ work and responding to customer issues.
Your carbon monoxide detector may not be warning you about low-level exposure.
Your carbon monoxide detector may not be warning you about low-level exposure.
The home energy audits are the way to start. Getting one done does not commit you to having any work done. However, we think seeing the benefits of improving their homes’ energy performance in black and white will inspire Long Island homeowners to act. As more and more of us take action, it will save us money, boost Long Island’s economy, improve air quality, lower our carbon footprint, and demonstrate leadership while providing an example for the rest of the nation in adopting clean energy solutions. To find out how you can get started, visit longislandgreenhomes.org
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Long before our nation’s current natural gas boom took hold, a revolution in fuels used for transportation was well underway. Today, the same natural gas used to heat more than 60 million American homes is, in other forms, used to power cars, trucks, buses, and even ships and locomotives.
Momentum toward greater use of natural gas in the transportation sector is growing. Almost 14 million “natural gas vehicles,” or NGV’s, are in use worldwide, including more than 100,000 in the U.S. This includes tens of thousands of transit buses, refuse trucks, school buses and other vehicles in a wide variety of applications and locations. In many cases, entire fleets run on natural gas in the form of either compressed natural gas (CNG) or liquefied natural gas (LNG).
Several key reasons exist for the growing use of natural gas in transportation: it is the cleanest burning transportation fuel commercially available today and overall costs are significantly less than for gasoline or diesel fuel. With the abundant supply of natural gas in the U.S. – which is easily processed to make CNG and LNG to power vehicles -- the advantages will increase. Additionally, natural gas is a domestic source of energy thereby reducing our dependence on foreign oil and our balance of trade deficit.
In 2011, Northville Industries Corp., a diversified petroleum services company based in Melville, New York, formed Northville Natural Gas LLC, to develop infrastructure for NGV’s and work with fleet operators in various industries to help them migrate towards natural gas as a primary fuel.
“Never before have there been so many natural gas products and services available, spurred by abundant supply, unprecedented industry investment and government incentives,”
said Gene Bernstein, Chairman of Northville Industries Corp. “Northville is partnering with national, regional and local fleets to help them capture the economic and environmental benefits of CNG and LNG power.” Among them is Frito-Lay, which has been successful at reducing greenhouse gas emissions in its sales and delivery fleet, and Bestway Express, a major regional trucking company based in Indiana.
NGVs are an especially good fit for fleet applications such as
transit and school buses, refuse collection and recycling trucks, government vehicles, airports and other terminal operations, shuttles, taxis, field maintenance and repair, short-haul distribution, and delivery operations of every type. According to the American Public Transit Association, nearly one-fifth of all transit buses in the nation run on CNG or LNG. Almost 40 percent of trash trucks purchased in 2011 were natural gas powered.
As a transportation fuel, natural gas has several important advantages:
•Moreeconomical:Naturalgas fuel is roughly$1.50 less per diesel-gallon-equivalent, savings that are forecast to continue for at least the next decade. Already favorable lifecycle cost advantages improve with federal and/or state tax credits.
• Cleaner and quieter: A U.S. Department ofEnergy study of United Parcel Service delivery
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Gene M. Bernstein, Chairman
trucks demonstrated that CNG trucks produced 75 per cent lower carbon monoxide emissions, 49 percent lower nitrogen oxides emissions, and 95 percent lower particulate matter emissions than diesel trucks of similar age. Also, heavy duty NGV’s have a 80-90 percent lower decibel level than comparable diesels.
• Domestically produced: The vast majority ofthe natural gas consumed in the U.S. is produced domestically, while the U.S. imports more than 60 percent of its petroleum, two-thirds of which is used to fuel vehicles in the form of gasoline and diesel.
•Abundantlyavailable:Withadvancedexplorationand production technologies now becoming mainstream, domestic natural gas reserves have grown to more than 100 years of consumption.
• NGV’s widely available: A broad variety ofNGV’s in light-, medium- and heavy-duty designs are already available from OEM’s, many of which are also investing in engine development
and certification to expand natural gas options. Qualified installers can also retrofit new or existing vehicles with a certified system. “With proven reserves of domestic natural gas soaring and our dependence on foreign oil as burdensome as ever, it only makes sense to start using clean, inexpensive, and abundant natural gas as a vehicle fuel. NGV’s are good for our economy, our environment, our nation, and your bottom line,” said Bernstein.
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The surprising answer comes from the Long Island Clean Electricity Vision — a visionary study commissioned by Renewable Energy Long Island (reLI) and member organizations of the Long Island Clean Energy Roundtable. The 2012 analysis, performed by Synapse Energy Economics, using cautious and often conservative assumptions, concludes that a clean energy transition could take place within two decades, at relatively modest cost and with significant benefits.The major conclusions of this 100 percent Long Island renewables study are:
» By 2020, it appears technically feasible to meet 100 percent of residential electricity needs from renewables, and by 2030 to have a 100 percent renewable and zero-carbon electricity supply.
» Aggressive energy efficiency efforts in buildings are required to reduce wasteful consumption practices. Large amounts of wind, solar and other renewable energy sources need to be built to replace old, inefficient fossil-fueled power sources. During certain times, e.g. when not enough renewable energy is available to meet electricity demand, some existing fossil-fueled generation would be used to meet demand. Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) would be purchased to offset these emissions.
» The additional cost of switching to a 100 percent renewable electricity supply is modest: average customer bills are expected to increase by roughly 8–12 percent. The indirect costs of current practices to individuals and society (i.e. environmental and health-related costs), are not accounted for in this comparison.
Economic benefits would be significant. Much of the money LIPA now spends each year on imported fossil fuel and power ($1.5 billion in 2012) would stay on Long Island. Investing instead to make buildings energy efficient, while installing massive amounts of renewables would result in much needed construction jobs and stimulate the regional economy for the next two decades. It also offers insurance against fluctuations in fuel prices, and dramatically lowers carbon emissions and the pollution that causes health impacts.
We Are Not Alone. The Danish island of Samsø, entirely dependent on oil and coal, began to make their homes more energy efficient, switched to biofuel heating, and installed solar panels and wind turbines. By 2005, this island of 4,300 people was using 100 percent renewable sources. The city of San Francisco plans to supply 100 percent of its electricity needs from renewables by 2020. The Scottish government announced its aim for 100 percent renewable electricity for its 5 million people by 2020 with much of it coming from offshore wind farms.
A plan by Delucchi and Jacobson, featured in a 2009 Scientific American, actually calculated how many
renewable energy systems the entire world will need to meet all energy needs. They found that the cost of energy in this 100 percent renewable energy economy would be similar to the cost of energy today. Like many other studies, they conclude that the barriers to this global transformation “are primarily social and political, not technological or even economic”.
It will take determination to turn these clean energy visions into reality. Challenging the business-as-usual model will encounter opposition. “All truth passes through three stages,” philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said more than 150 years ago. “First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
It is evident that current energy patterns are unsustainable and harmful to our health, environment, and economy. We have the technologies to build a sustainable energy supply. What are we waiting for? For more on the Long Island Clean Electricity Vision, see RenewableEnergyLongIsland.org/100percent.
Renewable Energy Long Island, a not-for-profit organization providing clean energy information to consumers, businesses, and policy makers and advocating for a sustainable energy future. Gordian Raacke, executive director, lives in a super-insulated solar-heated home in East Hampton that generates 100 percent of its annual electricity consumption from solar panels.
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