Upstate New York will soon be the home of a clean energy business park. It’ll be one of the first business parks in the U.S. specifically designed for companies that develop clean energy technology. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Mark Brodie has more:
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Upstate New York will soon be the home of a clean energy business park. It’ll be one of the first business parks in the U.S. specifically designed for companies that develop clean energy technology. The Great Lakes Consortium’s Mark Brodie reports.
The Saratoga Technology Energy Park, or step, will be housed on land owned by the New York state energy research and development authority.
Nyserda President, William Flynn, says the agency had been looking for a way to use the 280 acres for several years.
“Maybe this is a little pie in the sky, but I hope to envision something along the lines of what happened out in the Northwest and out in California in Silicon Valley. I think NYS has a great opportunity to cluster these new clean energy technology businesses in one location so they can all feed off of each other.”
Flynn expects both the energy technology sector, and the market for clean energy technology to grow in the near future.
He says the state is courting companies that develop and promote the use of alternative forms of energy…including solar and wind power. For the Great Lakes Consortium, I’m Mark Brodie.