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Ithaca College to host energy management conference
ITHACA — Ithaca College will host its annual Educational Energy Day (EdEnergy) conference Oct. 1 at its Campus Center. The confab, held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., spotlights energy management best practices, strategies, products, and technologies. The agenda includes speakers from Staples, Honeywell, Corning Natural Gas, Rochester Institute of Technology, GEM Energy Services, Building […]
New York starts market-acceleration program focused on energy efficiency
New York has launched a $30 million program that aims to bring energy-efficiency technologies to market quickly. The state calls the initiative the Energy Efficiency Market Acceleration Program. It will seek to accelerate energy-efficiency technologies’ development, attract technology businesses to New York, create market channels for companies, build business-development opportunities, and train professionals like engineers,
ZeroPoint powering advances in biomass-gasification plants
POTSDAM — A performance warranty has set ZeroPoint Clean Tech, Inc. charging toward the commercial market. The biomass-gasification technology company, headquartered at Clarkson University’s Peyton Hall Incubator in Potsdam, is working with a German firm to build turn-key biomass power plants. The plants are a big step because they will come with warranties guaranteeing the
NYSERDA launching energy-efficiency rebates for local governments
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) is powering up for a $1.1 million energy-efficiency rebate program for the state’s municipal governments.
Upstate venture funds back hurricane-protection firm
An Ithaca–based venture-capital fund has joined with the Rochester manager of another venture-capital fund to invest in StormBlok Systems, Inc. StormBlok Systems, based in the
Tryon Boys and Girls Center starts transition to business park
The shuttered Tryon Boys and Girls Center in Fulton County is a step closer to becoming an industrial and commercial business park. Empire State Development’s
Rome Research lands Navy contract
NEW HARTFORD — The U.S. Navy awarded PAR Technology Corp. subsidiary Rome Research Corporation (RRC) a $2.4 million contract to provide telecommunications operations and maintenance
Legislation would provide grants for waterfront redevelopment
SYRACUSE — Proposed federal legislation would award grants of up to $500,000 to local government and nonprofit organizations redeveloping abandoned waterfront properties. “I don’t think
Energy management conference set for Ithaca College
ITHACA — Ithaca College will host its annual Educational Energy Day (EdEnergy) conference Oct. 1 at its Campus Center. The confab, held from 8 a.m.
State starts market-acceleration program focused on energy efficiency
New York has launched a $30 million program in an attempt to bring energy-efficiency technologies to market quickly. The state calls the initiative the Energy
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