Thanks to a $250,000 grant, the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Center unveiled its newest offering Wednesday.
The Clean Energy Lab, which inhabits three equipment-packed rooms in the ATMC building, is envisioned as a testing ground for ideas on how biofuel, marine, solar and wind capacities can be used to create energy.
Officials hope the new lab will foster new renewable energy companies across the region by helping to convert raw energy ideas into marketable technology.
“People come here with ideas or concepts and we work with them. CEL has the expertise, equipment and facilities to work with companies and their clean energy concepts. Basically we help them try to figure it all out,” said lab manager Bernard Nolan. “We develop the requirements, build the prototype, integrate the design, test and then assist in the certification process. After that, the center will help them with their business plan [...]

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