AWS Truepower, LLC, an international leader in renewable energy consulting and information services, today announced it has expanded its solar and wind testing and research relationship with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), including its participation in a new clean energy testing initiative funded by the agency. NYSERDA has awarded $4.4 million in funding over five years to a consortium led by quality and safety services provider Intertek. The funding will support the establishment of renewable energy test and research centers in New York that will be among the first of their kind in the nation.
AWS Truepower joins Intertek, Clarkson University, Rochester Institute of Technology, State University of New York (SUNY) Canton, Alfred State, Binghamton University, and the Syracuse Center of Excellence in NYSERDA’s Research and Testing Centers initiative. NYSERDA’s funding will allow the group to establish solar photovoltaic (PV) and small-wind test centers throughout the state of New York. Using rigorous, real-life testing scenarios, the group will measure safety, performance, reliability, durability and longevity.
“These new testing centers demonstrate New York’s leadership on renewable technology development and will give consumers and investors the most accurate information possible on clean technologies,” said Francis J. Murray, President and CEO of NYSERDA. “By serving as a proving ground for the latest renewable energy technologies, these centers will help bolster New York’s clean energy economy and our renewable technology infrastructure.”
The NYSERDA award follows newly published research illustrating the potential for renewable-energy development in New York’s Great Lakes Region. Published by AWS Truepower on behalf of NYSERDA, the report describes the viability of New York’s Great Lake waters as a resource for offshore wind production. The full study is accessible online HERE.
“Together with Intertek and our regional partners, NYSERDA’s testing facility initiative allows us to continue to advance New York’s position as a clean energy leader—a region rich in renewable energy resource potential as evidenced in part by our recent offshore wind assessment of the Great Lakes,” said Bruce Bailey, President and CEO at AWS Truepower. “AWS Truepower is committed to providing feasibility, assessment and operations intelligence to the federal, state and local government agencies, as well as the renewable-energy industry, and we are pleased to lend our capabilities to New York’s testing centers. Together, we can help renewable-energy developers optimally site small wind and PV technologies and collectively work to improve the state’s efforts to achieve Governor David Paterson’s ‘45 by 15’ clean energy objectives.”
More information on the New York clean energy test center initiative is available from NYSERDA website at http://www.nyserda.org/Press_Releases/2010/PressReleas2010517.asp.