Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center (AERTC)

On Wednesday, October 9, three Stony Brook University students had the opportunity to see the ?rsted South Fork Wind Farm off the coast of Long Island. Shiue Deng, Abdul Muneeb, and Yuxuan Wu, graduate students of Fang Luo, PhD, sailed 35 miles for a tour of the offshore wind farm. The tour, provided by ?rsted, was especially exciting for our students, as their studies are directly related to offshore wind power systems, cables, and transmission equipment. Thank you ?rsted for allowing our students to be hands-on in this exciting opportunity. #AERTC #OffshoreWindFarm #OffshoreWind #SouthForkWind #?rsted

Last week, AERTC and The New York Climate Exchange held a joint event on Governors Island during NYC Climate Week. The event kicked off with opening?remarks from Robert B. Catell, AERTC Board Chairman, Stephen Hammer, PhD, Founding CEO of the New York Climate Exchange, and Richard McCormick, PhD, Interim President of Stony Brook University. Opening remarks were followed by presentations from Kathleen Schmid, NYC Mayor's Office of Climate and Environmental Justice, Carter Strickland, The State University of New York, and Andrew J. Coleman, PhD, EPRI, where the experts addressed the challenges and solutions to New York City's energy transition efforts. The event concluded with a panel of experts, moderated by Andrew Coleman, PhD, answering questions that were submitted during roundtable discussions earlier in the?day. The panel included Eva Gardow, EPRI and New York Battery and Energy Storage Technology Consortium (NY-BEST), Huck Montgomery, National Grid, Michael Richter, Brightcore Energy, and Jane Shin, Con Edison. As a member of the anchor institute for the new Climate Solutions Center on Governors Island, we are honored to have hosted such an important event that will inspire climate solutions and we thank everyone who participated and made this event possible. #SBUAERTC #NYCClimateWeek #ClimateWeek2024 #GovernorsIsland #ClimateSolutions

Last week, AERTC and The New York Climate Exchange held a joint event on Governors Island during NYC Climate Week. The event kicked off with opening?remarks from Robert B. Catell, AERTC Board Chairman, Stephen Hammer, PhD, Founding CEO of the New York Climate Exchange, and Richard McCormick, PhD, Interim President of Stony Brook University. Opening remarks were followed by presentations from Kathleen Schmid, NYC Mayor's Office of Climate and Environmental Justice, Carter Strickland, The State University of New York, and Andrew J. Coleman, PhD, EPRI, where the experts addressed the challenges and solutions to New York City's energy transition efforts. The event concluded with a panel of experts, moderated by Andrew Coleman, PhD, answering questions that were submitted during roundtable discussions earlier in the?day. The panel included Eva Gardow, EPRI and New York Battery and Energy Storage Technology Consortium (NY-BEST), Huck Montgomery, National Grid, Michael Richter, Brightcore Energy, and Jane Shin, Con Edison. As a member of the anchor institute for the new Climate Solutions Center on Governors Island, we are honored to have hosted such an important event that will inspire climate solutions and we thank everyone who participated and made this event possible. #SBUAERTC #NYCClimateWeek #ClimateWeek2024 #GovernorsIsland #ClimateSolutions

The AERTC held its first cohort session of the Offshore Wind Training Institute in the new HVDC training lab last week. Sponsored by the Offshore Wind Training Institute and jointly led by Dr. Fang Luo, Director of the Spellman High Voltage Power Electronics Lab, and Derek O'Connor, Workforce Development Manager at Stony Brook University Economic Development , the cohort brought together 20 students from Suffolk County Community College interested in the growing offshore wind field. The lab is fully equipped with three state-of-the-art power electronics and electrical power training stations that provide hands-on experiments and?education. The next cohort session will be held this Friday, September 20, in the AERTC building. #StonyBrookAERTC #OffshoreWindTraining #OffshoreWind #HVDC #HVDCTraining

Last week, AERTC hosted a tour for John O'Leary, Deputy Secretary for Energy in the Office of the Governor of New York. Mr. O'Leary was given an overview of both AERTC by Center Director James Acquaviva and Chairman of the Board Robert B. Catell. After introductions were made, an overview of Stony Brook University Economic Development was presented by Kevin Gardner, Vice President for Research, David Hamilton, Director of Ecosystems Growth and Impact, and Nina Maung, PhD, Senior Associate Vice President for Research Development and Partnerships. Mr. O'Leary was then given a guided tour through the many innovative laboratories at the center by their researchers, including the Spellman High Voltage Power Electronics Lab by Fang Luo, PhD, the Center for Mesoscale Transport Properties by Shan Yan, PhD, and the Advanced Combustion and Alternative Fuels Lab by Dimitris Assanis, PhD. It was an honor to host a tour for Mr. O'Leary and discuss the ground-breaking technology being developed by our researchers and we hope to have him visit again. #StonyBrookAERTC #AERTC #Research #PowerElectronics #BatteryStorage #CombustionEngineering

Last week, Stony Brook Economic Development's Associate Director of Technology and Engineering Slowa Solovyov, PhD, gave a tour to the Activate NY Fellows. The tour took the group through the Center for Integrated Electric Energy Systems (CIEES) and Institute of Gas Innovation and Technology (I-GIT) labs, and had the opportunity to speak with Ray Sambrotto, Founder and CEO of Allied Microbiota and Brian Gilman, Founder and CEO of Evolve Hydrogen Inc. We look forward to potential collaborations in the future.

Congratulations to Dr. Esther Sans Takeuchi, Stony Brook University Distinguished Professor and William and Jane Knapp Chair in Energy and the Environment on being honored with a special issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry C in ACS Publications! Dr. Takeuchi, Principal Investigator of the Institute of Energy: Sustainability, Environment and Equity at AERTC, is featured in a special "Festschrift issue", which contains articles from friends, colleagues, current and former mentees, to honor her ongoing research achievements and leadership in the field of electrochemistry and electrochemical energy storage. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eG9K39HG