New York is moving toward adopting green energy according to the Associated press (here) while the Brookings Institution (here) found that the fastest growing green segments of New York’s economy include wind and solar technologies. Renewable Energy World reported here on a recent study outlining a possible route forward to convert New York to Clean Energy. The state's Sun Initiative is also off to a bright start-here.
Some of the work to make the Empire State green is being done in-state. New York was second to California in Clean Energy Patents
The New York patent grantees for 2012 are listed below:
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175 |
General Electric Company |
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13 |
International Business Machines Corporation |
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2 |
Corning, Inc. |
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1 |
Lois, William A. |
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1 |
Brookhaven Science Associates LLC |
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1 |
Cellera, Inc. |
|
1 |
Chen, Franklin Y. K. |
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1 |
Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. |
|
1 |
Cutright, Richard H.; Huang, Wayne W.; Ingraham, Jeffrey E.; Jameson, Kerry J. |
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1 |
Dresser-Rand Company |
|
1 |
ENRG, Inc. |
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1 |
Guryevskiy, Natan; Guryevskiy, Boris |
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1 |
International Controls and Measurements Corp. |
|
1 |
Altek Capital, Inc |
|
1 |
Locus Energy, LLC |
|
1 |
University of Rochester |
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1 |
Monostory, Erik J. |
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1 |
MTI MicroFuel Cells, Inc. |
|
1 |
Omnitek Partners LLC |
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1 |
Onfloor Technologies, L.L.C. |
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1 |
Peacock, Kimberly |
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1 |
Peguero, Fernando A. |
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1 |
Quixotic Systems, Inc. |
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1 |
Rosa, James |
|
1 |
Solaire Generation, Inc. |
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1 |
Solar Sentry Corporation |
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1 |
Stojanowski, John |
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1 |
Syracuse University |
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1 |
UltraCell Acquisition Company, L.L.C. |
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1 |
Lanza, Carlo John |
As depicted, GE dominated all other New York patentees with 175 patents--mostly in wind energy technologies. GE's total also included a few solar patents, fuel cell patents and even a few hybrid/electric vehicle patents. Familiar name IBM followed in an unfamiliar place with 13 patents all in solar, except 2 hybrid/electric vehicle patents. Corning also had two clean energy patents in 2012, one each in solar and fuel cells, while the rest of those receiving clean energy patents in 2012 received only one.
Since 2002 New York's share (in yellow) of Clean Energy patents has risen dramatically as depicted below:
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It is clear from the above that GE's wind patents dominate all other technologies while solar patents more than triple the others. However, historically, New York had a strong presence in fuel cell patents due to the presence of Plug Power, MTI Micro fuel cells, and GM’s fuel cell research division but these have fallen off in the last few years.
Further information regarding the Clean Energy Patent Growth Index may be found at www.cepgi.com.
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