Ithaca Week: NY Sun initiative makes room for solar panel
improvement
Published:
Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - 08:59
By this summer, Tompkins County will be generating four percent
of the total solar energy produced in upstate New York.
“As of 2012 there were around 300 megawatts or so that were installed [in New York State],” Pradeep Haldar, director of the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering’s Energy and Environmental Technology Applications Center at SUNY Polytechnic Institute, said. “In the next ten years you are going to see roughly ten times that amount which are going to be installed.”
SUNY Polytechnic Institute received a $35 million grant from the state through Governor Cuomo’s New York Sun initiative to research the future of the energy grid, including how to make the solar panels more efficient.
