Green Innovations
www.thecleantechcenter.com
The Clean Tech Center, based at The Tech Garden,
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H b id Electric,
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Hydrogen, Advanced Battery Technologies
• Buildings & Construction
Energy Efficient Construction Materials,
Materials HVAC,
HVAC
Lighting, Appliances, Controls, Energy Management
and Conservation
LEED Technologies + Smart Buildings = “Bright Green Buildings”
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Wh t are industry
What
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• Investment is flowing to this sector. Venture
investment in the clean technology sector has
grown from $506 million in 2001 to $8.4 billion in
2008.
2008
• US venture capital investments in clean tech
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increased
d 41% llastt year, while
hil overallll VC
investments were down 8%.
• Enhanced funding through federal programs
including the SBA,
SBA USDA/Rural Development and
the DoE will continue to stimulate the market for
clean tech.
tech
• $43 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment
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Market Growth Projections by 2011
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Biofuels
Wind
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Water quality
Green build
$10.4 billion
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billion
$16.08 billion
$53.5 billion
$23.3 billion
Where are the good green jobs?
NYS has just produced
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Clean E
Energy Labor
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Market and Workforce
Intelligence Report
Available on line on NYSDOL
Website: www.labor.ny.gov
The full range of clean tech jobs cut across a very broad
skill set continuum
Pathways out of poverty … career ladder to increasing wages … highly technical … advanced R & D
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The
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d NYS E
Energy Pl
Plan iis a roadmap
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ffor
clean tech sector growth
Available on line at: www.nysenergyplan.com
www nysenergyplan com
• A hot sector will be energy storage and smart grid
solutions. Advanced batteries and fuel cells are the
next big clean tech breakthroughs.
• Upstate
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New York is a bigg pplayer
y in these arenas
with global industry leaders, leading university
g g clean
research centers,, and clusters of emerging
tech early stage companies.
partnerships
• There are opportunities for unique partnerships.
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technologies, with emphasis on retrofits. Energy
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incentives already in place, and the biggest potential
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Think smart. Think green.
• Clean tech innovation means a smarter grid,
smarter buildings, smarter materials, smarter
transportation systems, smarter community
planning, smarter public policy … and a smarter
workforce.
orkforce
You can’t be smarter if you’re not greener.
You can’t be greener if you’re not smarter.
• The clean tech marketplace is dynamic and
demanding. It will require our best and brightest
efforts to compete.
• Capital and talent will follow innovation and
expertise.
• To win at this game, we need to create innovation
and entrepreneurship across the entire clean tech
spectrum.
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The call to action.
If we don’t
d ’t change
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the
th world,
ld who
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