Stony Brook University’s Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center yesterday launched a new Web site designed to keep the public abreast of the various projects and collaborations with other universities the facility expects to soon host.
The announcement was sent out by Bob Catell, executive director and deputy chairman of National Grid USA (sound weird?). Catell is one of the center’s leaders.
The AERTC, which will support research into alternative energy, energy efficiency, nanotechnology and conservation, is expected to open in 2009.
From the statement:
The Center was created in recognition of the importance of energy and the environment in our region, as well as globally. While it originated as a collaboration among KeySpan, Stony Brook University, and Brookhaven National Laboratory, the AERTC has expanded into an enormous cooperative effort that includes some of Long Island’s largest businesses and universities. The Center is temporarily based at the Dye Center in Hauppauge, a former KeySpan facility.
Underscoring the concept of a true partnership, universities, energy providers, and business groups throughout Long Island and the Tri-state region, are encouraged to log on to the Web site and submit energy related event listings by simply emailing information and links to calendars@aertc.org
Links are already in place to take visitors from AERTC’s Web site to URLs describing, in detail, energy R&D as well as events taking place at more than a dozen universities and energy providers in the Long Island region. The AERTC is also creating a newsflash database, which will allow visitors to enter his or her name into an email database that will automatically alert them to all university, energy provider and business group news and events.
