Tightening the Envelope on Building Energy Efficiency

Adam McCarvill / Program Coordinator, CEBIP How important is a building’s envelope in the scope of energy efficiency and creating a clean-energy-integrated built environment? A building envelope includes the walls, windows, roof, and foundation, and forms the primary thermal barrier between the interior and exterior environments. In other words, a building envelope is all the building […]
So Much Gravity to What Terrament Has in Store

A bright leader working towards a more sustainable future. Under the Department of Energy’s classification, Long Duration Energy Storage is a storage system that can deliver electricity for 10 or more hours in duration. Terrament, a startup founded by Eric Chaves, is centered around a gravity storage technology setting out to hit the Inter-day, 10–36-hour […]
Innovative Applications for Vanadium Flow Battery Technology

At GenH, History Lessons and Future Foundations, a La Asimov

Siddharth Pannir / Founder, GenH It is always depressing reading the Asimov novels. I had come across them in one of the rare libraries in pre-2006 India and was immediately taken by the fantastical futures Asimov presented. While these fantastic adventures were essentially retellings of historical events (the Foundation series is a reiteration of the […]
A Decade Later, Advisor Farrell Still Loves Playing the Board

Ray Farrell / Partner, Carter, Deluca & Farrell LLP If Long Island innovation has a personal IP attorney, it must be Ray Farrell. The co-founder of Melville-based IP law powerhouse Carter, DeLuca & Farrell has long been a background booster – and front-row facilitator – of regional commercialization, both on the job and in his […]
Head in the Cloud(S), modelizeIT

Nikolai Joukov / CEO, Modelizeit modelizeIT, a 2012 startup launched by Russian emigree Nikolai Joukov, joins ThermoLift, Re-Nuble, Qunnect, Edgewise Energy and Bonded Energy Solutions as the only companies to complete the clean-energy incubator’s commercialization gauntlet. Notably, modelizeIT is a clean-energy company. Its cutting-edge tech focused on cloud migrations (that reduce IT energy consumption by […]
Deciding How You Will Live Your Life Is the Real Key to Success

Jerrit Gluck / CEO at Voltair Power Inc. It’s the American dream: running a successful business by day, free time with a close-knit, loving family at night. Many entrepreneurs work hard each day with that goal in mind. But it’s not easy. Not every entrepreneur would willingly let go of half of the dream to […]
From South Carolina, Lesson Learned by a CEBIP Star

John Davis / CEO, Storen Technologies, Inc. An Italian energy-storage import that cut its teeth in the Clean Energy Business Incubator Program has made a bold move to South Carolina. Most CEBIP companies have, historically, enjoyed close regional ties to Stony Brook University, but not exclusively – CEBIP has worked with companies here, there and […]
For This Professor/Dean/Advisor, It’s All About Who (and What) You Know

Dr. Jon Longtin / Interim Dean of Stony Brook University’s College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stony Brook University From the Never Stop Learning File comes Jon Longtin, interim dean of Stony Brook University’s College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, professor in SBU’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and eternal […]
How to Make Sales, Without Really Selling

Anne Wolfson / Owner, Anne Wolfson, PLLC Many of us dream of launching a new business – whether a novel software platform, a manufacturing operation or a unique technical or professional service. Entrepreneurs have new ideas and begin figuring out at least the initial stages of creating them: identifying whom to work with to efficiently […]