Stony Brook’s two New York State Centers of Excellence — the Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center (AEC) and the Center of Excellence for Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT) — will assist University researchers involved in the program. Both Centers of Excellence are funded through the Empire State Development’s Division of Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR), which fosters industry R&D collaboration to promote economic growth. Utility and industry connections are also a key external resource.

Essential partners in the collaborative project include the DOE Office of Science-funded Energy Frontier Research Center for Mesoscale Transport Properties (m2m) and the New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Integrated Electric Energy Systems (CIEES) — both located in the AEC. CIEES industry partners Bren-Tronics (Commack, NY) and Ioxus (Oneonta, NY) and AEC incubator tenant StorEn will contribute storage hardware and expertise to the initiative.