nfrastructure, an IT services company that works with public agencies and private companies to improve the efficiency (energy and otherwise) of their computer operations, will relocate 25 employees from its R&D, workforce education and other technology operations to 6,600 square feet in 107 Hermes Road at our supporting member the Saratoga Technology + Energy Park (STEP)®. For more information, see the NYSERDA news release. 

The Building Performance Institute (BPI), a national standards and credentialing organization for residential energy efficiency, has doubled the amount of space it rents at our supporting member NYSERDA's Saratoga Technology and Energy Park (STEP)®.

A tenant since 2003, BPI will now occupy 6,360 square feet and employ 22. For details please see NYSERDA's attached press release or coverage at the Times Union's The Buzz business blog. NYSERDA STEP has also released the June edition of its Next STEP newsletter, also attached below. 

With the opening of new data center by tw telecom, which uses a cooling system based on natural air flow for high energy efficiency, NYSERDA and elected officials from the Capital Region joined in a public ceremony celebrating the 11 clean-energy-related tenants now in place at the Saratoga Technology + Energy Park®, a supporting member of our association. Please see the NYSERDA news release for a complete list.

TEC-SMART, a $13.5 million training facility operated by Hudson Valley Community College, has ceremonially opened at our supporting member NYSERDA Saratoga Technology + Energy Park (STEP)®. The facility includes more than a dozen classrooms and laboratories that will be used to train workers in the installation and maintenance of solar, geothermal and wind energy systems. TEC-SMART also serves the training needs of the Global Foundries semiconductor fab being built just across the way. For more information please see the HVCC news release and coverage (including video) in The Saratogian. 

Our member Linc, The Lighting Cultivator™, is seeking a director of business development. Please see the attached job description. Linc is a not-for-profit corporation that acts as a virtual incubator for commercialization of new lighting products and services, assisting lighting and lighting-related companies to grow and create jobs in New York State. It collaborates with RPI's Lighting Research Center and NYSERDA.

An array of LED lights will be used to determine the precise spectral bands that are optimal for indoor growing of plants, under joint testing program brokered by our member Linc, the Lighting Cultivator among Ithaca-based Aero Farm Systems LLC, Cornell University's Department of Horticulture, and the Lighting Research Center at RPI. For a full account, see Aero Farm's news release. 

The sixth clean-energy business incubator to be established statewide by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) will be a partnership of the Energy and Environmental Technology Applications Center at UAlbany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering and our member the Hudson Valley Center for Innovation. Please see the official NYSERDA news release attached below and coverage in the Business Review. A full list of the clean-energy business incubators appears on our site here: http://bianys.com/clean_energy_incubators.

In the second new-tenant announcement in as many weeks, our supporting member the NYSERDA Saratoga Technology + Energy Park (STEP)® has announced that The Radiant Store, an installer of solar-thermal hot-water systems, has become a new tenant at 10 Hermes Road at STEP. For the NYSERDA news release, click here.