The Clean Tech Center Selected as a Top 10 Cleantech Cluster Organization in the World

Central Upstate New York ranked 2nd nationally, 6th globally as emerging cleantech region

The Clean Tech Center was selected one of the "Top 10 Cleantech Cluster Organizations 2010" in a report produced by Sustainable World Capital for The Cleantech Group. Central Upstate’s Cleantech Center is ranked second in the U.S. over CleanTech San Diego and The Environmental Business Cluster in San Jose, California. It was ranked 6th in the world ahead of Sweden’s Stockholm Miljöteknikcenter, and Canada’s Ontario Clean Water Initiative.

Shawn Lesser of Sustainable World Capital scoured the world looking for leading cleantech economic development regions. The Clean Tech Center made his list of top clusters to watch, "You’ve heard of the big apple. The green apple is Central Upstate New York. With 38 colleges and universities, 138,000 college students, $2 billion in annual funded R&D and a green landscape that supports clean energy production, NY’s ‘green core’ is launching and growing clean tech enterprises," said Lesser. "The Clean Tech Center at the Syracuse-based Tech Garden, and the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Energy and Environmental Systems are at the forefront of the green innovation movement."

"Our region has more than a century of leadership in environmental technologies and we continue to support the growth of next generation clean technologies in sectors such as biomass, hydro, geothermal, biofuels, and LEED building design," says Linda Hartsock, executive director, The Clean Tech Center. "This top ranking puts a spotlight on the collaborative efforts of our region’s green team and demonstrates to the world that we are a cleantech force."

"This excellent ranking proves that the Creative Core is a competitive center of the new industrial revolution," says Ed Bogucz, executive director, Syracuse Center of Excellence. "Regional green and clean tech assets such as The Clean Tech Center, SyracuseCoE, and their many partner businesses and academic institutions offer research and development capabilities that are turning heads throughout the world."

This isn’t the first time Central Upstate’s cleantech cluster has been recognized by Lesser. Recently Lesser produced:

• Top 10 cleantech universities for 2010 (Jan. 2010) which included Cornell University as #8
• Top 10 cleantech countries for 2009 (Oct. 2009) which included U.S. as #7
• Top 10 U.S. states for cleantech in 2009 (Aug. 2009) which included New York as #8, and also referenced the emerging "green apple" cluster

The region’s cleantech market is expected to grow, with support from New York State which just adopted a new state energy plan with some of the most aggressive renewable portfolio standards in the country. State commitments also include a $500 million Green Strategic Investment Fund through the State Comptroller’s Office. The New York Power Authority recently released an RFP for 100MW of solar production, as well as an RFP for up to 500MW of wind along the Great Lakes – the largest off-shore freshwater wind farm project in North America. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) is one of the best-funded public authorities in the country, with an annual budget of more than $500 million to support extensive programs that fund R&D, manufacturing and large-scale energy management and conservation programs.

For more information about The Clean Tech Center visit www.thecleantechcenter.org.

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