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SUNY BEST’s March 5 event to highlight Southern Tier energy projects

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — The SUNY Business and Education Cooperative of the Southern Tier (SUNY BEST) will offer the final program in its four-part series on energy, entitled “Inspiring Energy Initiatives: The Private Sector,” at 10 a.m. Thursday, March 5.

The event will be held at the Binghamton University Downtown Center at 67 Washington St. in Binghamton, and is free and open to the public.

The Southern Tier region has many energy initiatives and projects underway to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and enhance sustainability, according to SUNY BEST. For this meeting, a panel of speakers representing businesses in the private sector from throughout the Southern Tier, will include:

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§  Mauricio Vargas, bioenergy lead of sustainability technologies, Lockheed Martin Missions Systems and Training. Topic: Projects that Lockheed Martin and partner Concord Blue are executing to advance how the world addresses clean energy and waste-reduction challenges.

§  Chris Kopec, facilities group manager at McFarland Johnson. Topic: the Greater Binghamton Airport’s geothermal heating project.

§  Adam Flint, Southern Tier Solar Works program manager at the Binghamton Regional Sustainability Coalition, and Melissa Kemp, program director at Solar Tompkins. Topic: Solarize in the Southern Tier: Building the residential side of the clean-energy economy.

§  Matthew Rankin, director of business development at the Sunvestment Group. Topic: An “innovative online platform” that aims to bridge the finance gap in the mid-market solar industry.        

Pre-registration for this discussion is required through the SUNY BEST website at sunybest.binghamton.edu/. For more info, email sunybest@binghamton.edu.

SUNY BEST is a community development and outreach enterprise of Binghamton University’s Center for Innovative and Continuing Education.

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