Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center Launches Website
 
Interactive Site will Consolidate all Energy Research Efforts for Region                    

Stony Brook, NY – The Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center (AERTC), soon to be located at a new facility at Stony Brook University’s Research and Development Park, has launched an innovative and informative Web site, according to Robert B. Catell, Chairman National Grid USA, and Dr. Yacov Shamash, Vice President for Economic Development and Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science at Stony Brook University. The Center’s Web address is www.aertc.org

The AERTC is a true partnership of academic and research institutions, energy providers and industrial corporations. Its mission is innovative energy research, education and technology deployment with a focus on energy efficiency, conservation, renewable energy, and nanotechnology applications for new and novel sources of energy.

The Center was created in recognition of the importance of energy and the environment in our region, as well as globally. While it originated as a collaboration among KeySpan, Stony Brook University, and Brookhaven National Laboratory, the AERTC has expanded into an enormous cooperative effort that includes some of Long Island’s largest businesses and universities. The Center is temporarily based at the Dye Center in Hauppauge, a former KeySpan facility. 

Underscoring the concept of a true partnership, universities, energy providers, and business groups throughout Long Island and the Tri-state region, are encouraged to log on to the Web site and submit energy related event listings by simply emailing information and links to calendars@aertc.org  

Links are already in place to take visitors from AERTC’s Web site to URLs describing, in detail, energy R&D as well as events taking place at more than a dozen universities and energy providers in the Long Island region. The AERTC is also creating a newsflash database, which will allow visitors to enter his or her name into an email database that will automatically alert them to all university, energy provider and business group news and events.

The ultimate goal of www.AERTC.org is to become an interactive Internet-based repository for everything energy on Long Island.

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MEDIA CONTACTS:
Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center
Rick Eberle at Todd S. Shapiro Associates
516-729-6872