NYSERDA awards $1.5M to SUNY Buffalo for clean energy business incubator program

From NYSERDA:
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) today announced an award of $1.5 million to the University at Buffalo Office of Science, Technology Transfer and Economic Outreach to establish a clean energy business incubator program that will provide business support to accelerate the successful development of early-stage, clean energy technology companies [...]

Pennsylvania trial court rules for wind developer

PPM Atlantic Renewable v. Fayette County Zoning Hearings Board, Court of Common Pleas of Fayette County (Civil Division). Trial court decision of April 30, 2009.
PPM Atlantic Renewable was (is?) intending to install a 24-turbine 50 megawatt nameplate generation wind farm in Fayette County, Pennsylvania (our good neighbors to the south), along an approximately 3.5 mile [...]

NY Governor Paterson announces battery and energy storage consortium

New York Governor David A. Paterson on May 5
announced the creation the New York Battery and Energy Storage Technology Consortium (known as NY BEST), implementing a key goal identified in his State of the State address and helping to position New York as the global leader in energy storage technology. The research and development initiative [...]