Creating Alternative Energy Connections
The Solar Energy Consortium (TSEC) is a partnership designed to foster solar energy research and production in New York State, bringing like-minded companies together in the solar industry. TSEC has been promised a $5 million start up allowance to develop the project at Tech City in Kingston, a former IBM plant site.
The non-profit center plans include research and development of solar technologies, as well as to implement installations throughout the state. Promoters of the project estimate the initial creation of 300 jobs within the region, with untold numbers of jobs established during the coming decade. Establishing NY State as a leader in photovoltaic technology for a cleaner future in an economically viable way is a primary goal of TSEC.
The Henry Luce Foundation has awarded the Bard Center for Environmental Policy (BCEP) a $495,000 grant to support its new Learning Across Borders project, which aims to foster global environmental policy solutions by establishing student, research, and professional exchanges with institutions around the globe. The grant will create global learning networks to enable BCEP to strengthen two of its core missions: improving the quality of environmental policies at the local through international levels, and training well-rounded environmental professionals who can integrate science-based knowledge with the legal, economic, political, and ethical considerations that influence the policy-making process in a variety of nations.
The Bard Center for Environmental Policy promotes education, research, and public service on critical issues pertaining to the natural and built environments. Its primary goal is to improve the quality of environmental policies by incorporating the best available scientific knowledge into the policy-making process at the local, regional, national, and international levels. The Center’s innovative graduate program, launched in 2001, trains future leaders who can translate the science behind environmental and natural resource problems into creative, feasible policies. The Center’s unique modular program offers an intensive course of study encompassing the sciences, economics, law, politics, and ethics. Contact the Bard Center for Environmental Policy at 845-758-7073 or cep@bard.edu
A group of colleges and universities in New York’s east corridor collectively belong to the Environmental Consortium that addresses the environmental issues we’re faced with today. The following colleges listed below are present consortium members:
Find more information at www.environmentalconsortium.org
TORONTO, CANADA – Prism Solar Technologies, Inc. was voted “Most Promising Technology” at the CleanTech XIV last week in Toronto Canada. Representing Prism Solar was Rick Lewandowski, the company’s President and CEO.
“We are very honored to have been chosen to receive this prestigious award,” said Rick Lewandowski, Prism Solar’s CEO. “It is especially important to us because it was voted on by the hundreds of investors attending the conference. Also, I believe we won this in part by being able to communicate the real value of this technology because of the comments we received at the CleanTech “bootcamp”. This group provided high quality input, to say the least.”
From hundreds of companies that applied, PRISM SOLAR has been chosen as one of the featured presenters to more than 600 investors on October 24-26, 2007. The selection process is a three-part screening process whereby companies are screened through experienced entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in the CleanTech Entrepreneur Program, Forum Selection Committee, and Investor Presentation Screening Committee.
Prism Solar Technologies, Inc. (PST), is an early stage PV manufacturer involved in manufacturing PV modules that employ its patented advanced holographic concentrator technology. The company has raised $8,550,000 since its inception and has recently opened a new R&D facility in Tucson Arizona. To learn more about Prism Solar Technologies, Inc.
The CleanTech Network™ LLC is a membership group that catalyzes investment, business opportunities and relationships driving the growth of CleanTech globally. The CleanTech Network™ popularized the term CleanTech in 2002 and defined the category, providing investors, executives, government agencies and media accurate and consistent data dating from 1999. The network has over 8,000 CleanTech investors and 9,500 companies worldwide that take advantage of the global CleanTech Forums™, comprehensive market research services and reports, online proprietary deal flow, and an investor directory. In addition, the CleanTech Network™ provides information services, including the weekly market intelligence newsletter Inside CleanTech™ and the quarterly CleanTech Investment Monitor™ report that tracks and analyzes all CleanTech investments, M&As and IPOs in North America ,Europe, China and Australia.
November 8, 2007 - The Biofuels Working Group will be meeting on November 8th for discussion of alternative energy projects and other updates in the Hudson Valley. Please join at Taylor Recycling in Mongomery, NY at 1:30pm. A draft agenda is below. Please email me additional agenda items. We also will learn about our host, Taylor Recycling. The street address is 350 Neelytown Road, phone is 845-457-4021. Directions are below. www.taylor-recycling.com
James Rollin, Taylor Recycling - An overview of Taylor RecyclingUpdates on growing biomass grasses in the Hudson Valley Pellet Fuel LLC update Biomass furnaces - What's out there State and Federal updates on alternative energies
*Heading North or South on the NYS Thruway/87* From Rte. 87 Take Exit 17 to Rte. 84 West From 84W take Exit 5 for Route 208 At the end of the exit ramp, turn left on Rte. 208 At the second traffic light, turn right on Neelytown Road. Taylor Recycling is 1.8 miles on the left at 350 Neelytown Road.
*Heading North or South on Route 17 *Take Exit 121 to Rte. 84 East From 84E take Exit 5 for Rte. 208 At the end of the exit ramp, turn right on Rte. 208 Take the first right on Neelytown Road. Taylor Recycling is 1.8 miles on the left at 350 Neelytown Road.
Jiminy Peak, a mountain ski resort in the Massachusetts Berkshire Mountains, has completed its wind turbine installation and has been operating since August. As the first resort of its kind in North America to accomplish this energy generating operation, the turbine will generate 4.6 million kWh, which is approximately 33 percent of the total electricity consumption for a year. With a cost of 3.9 million, it is the first private company in the U.S. to purchase a wind turbine in the megawatt category for its own energy use. www.green.jiminypeak.com