Here are just a few quick facts about why New York is a great place to locate your Battery and Energy Storage business:
- New York is home to more than 10% of the National Academy of Science members
- New York companies and universities employ 25,000 scientists and engineers working in Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
- New York has a history of innovation -- we were home to the first major power generating station, inaugurated in Niagara Falls by George Westinghouse in 1896, which transmitted power to Buffalo, 20 miles away
- New York is third in the nation in number of patents issued – 6,025 in 2007
- New York is home to 19.3 Million people 6.4% of the US population.
- New York has 320 two- and four-year colleges, one of the most extensive networks of academic institutions.
- New York is home to three federal Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) focusing on energy storage.
- New York is home to almost twenty academic institutions with facilities, researchers and students working on energy storage solutions.
- New York is home to Brookhaven National Laboratory, a Federal Department of Energy Lab and home to the National Synchrotron Light Source (NLSL), with 2,100 academic, federal and corporate researchers conducting projects each year.
- New York is home to two of the world’s most powerful supercomputers at RPI and Stony Brook/Brookhaven National Lab which are available for industry and academic use in energy storage modeling