Nonprofit Launching Clean Energy Business Incubator

The center works to expand the clean technology industry in the state, and is helping to fund the energy institute’s forthcoming Worcester incubator

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By Lonnie Shekhtman

Telegram

WORCESTER - The six-year-old Institute for Energy and Sustainability, a sort of “green” chamber of commerce, wants to turn the city into a clean-energy hub by launching a business incubator for startups developing renewable energy and energy-efficiency technologies.

“The time is ripe in a lot of ways,” said the institute’s new director, Joseph Bush, who is a Worcester Polytechnic Institute alumnus with a doctorate in physical chemistry.

By the end of the year, the nonprofit, currently located at 16 Claremont St., hopes to find up to 7,000 square feet of warehouse space near commuter-rail access at Union Station - and close to nightlife activities on Shrewsbury and Canal streets - to house a business incubator that will provide office space and business resources to young, clean-energy companies.

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