Outreach & Engagement

Areas of Research :: Energy Solutions :: Renewable Energy

SUNY researchers are developing advances for solar, hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. Solar Albany NanoTech's Energy and Environmental Technology Application Center houses numerous research programs that focus on thin film science and technology applications that are spurring advances in fuel cell and solar technology, power storage, power electronics and energy efficiency. The Solar Energy Center at Farmingdale State College, helping to create the necessary infrastructure to increase solar installations on Long Island, is conducting applied research on solar energy products and applications.

SUNY ESF is one of four founding partners of the Salix Consortium, which is finding ways to commercialize willow biomass crops.

• Looking to make solar energy cheap and convenient, Dr. David Geiger, professor of Chemistry at SUNY Geneseo, is in search of a third kind of molecule, a "linker ligand," to join others together and transfer a charge between them.

Hydrogen

• The Institute for Research and Technology Transfer (IRTT) at Farmingdale State College established the Hydrogen Institute to encompass research and development in fuel cell and wind energy technologies.
  
  
• Albany NanoTech's Energy and Environmental Technology Application Center is establishing a "Hydrogen economy" roadmap for New York State that will identify the steps for systematically putting a hydrogen infrastructure in place.

Biomass

• SUNY ESF is one of four founding partners of the Salix Consortium, which is finding ways to commercialize willow biomass crops as an ecologically and socio-economically sustainable alternative farm crop and as a source of locally produced renewable fuel for New York and the surrounding region.