< Previouscritical renewable energy business. These facilities will continue to play a crucial role in ensuring we can meet the strong offshore wind goals that have been set recently on the national level, by the state and our business.” James Glennie, an OSW wind energy expert for the Embassy of Denmark, said R&D “does play a critical role” in growing the OSW industry. He identified universities and technical colleges as “an incredible resource, and it’s very important they are on board and up to speed and with the program.” Grant Van Wyngaarden, a senior supply chain development manager for Ørsted/Eversource, added, “The Capital Region has an excellent value proposition to the industry with incredible experiences in advanced manufacturing, research and development, and on top of that a very experienced and skilled work force.” Patent Powerhouse There’s more to the Capital Region’s clean energy industry than Equinor’s investment at the Port of Albany. In 2020, one in 12 wind energy patents awarded by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) listed an investor from the Capital Region. PTO awarded 859 patents with a Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) for wind energy. This includes patents pertaining to wind turbines with rotation axis in wind direction, offshore wind turbines, onshore wind turbines, wind turbines with rotation axis perpendicular to the wind direction, and power conversion electric or electronic aspects. Among those patents, inventors in the eight- county region were listed on 74, or 8.6%. A majority of those patents (96%) listed inventors for General Electric, which has GE Power and GE Renewable Energy in Schenectady and GE Research in Niskayuna. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) also had two patents with local inventors assigned to it and Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories in Cambridge, Massachusetts, had one listing a former RPI research assistant. 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