SYRACUSE — CenterState CEO, National Grid, and State Assemblyman William Magnarelli (D–Syracuse) today awarded five companies with grant funding to assist in commercializing clean-energy technologies.
The awards are part of the Syracuse Center of Excellence’s (SyracuseCoE) Commercialization Assistance Program (CAP).
The Syracuse CoE hosted the announcement of the grant awards that totaled $250,000.
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The CAP awards included $50,000 for Air Innovations of Cicero for its work on a “green” metal hydride for air conditioning.
Cortland Research, LLC of Homer will use $50,000 to commercialize the POUNCE (point of use network control of electrical) system, an energy-conservation system the firm created that provides data and autonomous control for reducing energy costs.
Engineering firm O’Brien & Gere of Syracuse receives a $50,000 grant to accelerate development of a water-quality monitor to detect taste and odor.
WavElectric of Ithaca and Syracuse will also use a $50,000 award to develop and test the first WE50 wave-energy converter prototype for the analysis of fluid and structure interaction.
Healthway Home Products of Pulaski will use an award of nearly $50,000 to assist in bringing to market a disinfecting-filtration system technology for schools, health care, and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)-certified commercial buildings.
Collectively, the winning firms are expected to use the grants to retain about 100 jobs in Central New York, according to SyracuseCoE.
Through seven rounds, the CAP program has awarded more than $1.75 million and supported the growth of 24 upstate New York companies. The funding is made possible by a state grant administered through SyracuseCoE and CenterState CEO.
National Grid provided $100,000 in support of the CAP program.
Established in 2001, CAP grants are awarded for projects that commercialize new products and services in the fields of indoor-environmental quality, water resources, and clean and renewable energy, which are the three focus areas of the SyracuseCoE.
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