New Energy Technologies, Inc., developer of MotionPower technologies for generating sustainable electricity from the kinetic energy of moving vehicles and SolarWindow technologies capable of generating electricity on see-thru glass windows, announced plans to initiate first-ever field tests of the company’s recently prototyped MotionPower-Heavy technology with Heller Industrial Parks’ flagship industrial park in metropolitan New York, in one of the largest contiguous foreign-trade zones in the U.S.

“We’re eager to field test the MotionPower-Heavy system in real world settings as part of our ongoing efforts to aggressively engineer, test, refine, and ultimately, commercially launch America’s first active roadway energy capture system of its kind,” stated Meetesh V. Patel, president and CEO of New Energy Technologies, Inc.

“I’m proud to announce that our first-ever field tests of this brand new technology will take place with Heller, one of America’s largest and most respected privately-held owners and developers of industrial real estate and commercial distribution sites,” Patel added. “I’m especially excited that our tests will be conducted at Heller’s flagship location, servicing the East Coast’s largest maritime cargo center and the third largest port in the nation. We couldn’t ask for a better location.”

“New Jersey is strategically centered between Boston and Washington, D.C., with a strong highway network. Having warehouses close to the port enables distributors to decrease handling time and labor costs on products,” explained Jeffrey J. Milanaik, president of Heller Industrial Parks, Inc.

“Our clients not only demand superior locations, but state-of-the-art facilities. Heller has a long history of being ahead of the curve when it comes to innovation and we are constantly looking for ways to provide clients with enhanced energy efficiency. It’s very exciting to be involved in the early testing and development of a brand new technology designed to generate electricity from the motion of vehicles.”

Engineers consider high traffic installation sites, such as the Heller location, ideal for harvesting the excess ‘kinetic’ energy of commercial trucks and big rigs to generate sustainable electricity using New Energy’s first-of-its-kind MotionPower-Heavy technology. Excess kinetic energy is produced similar to the energy present when a bicycle continues to roll even after a cyclist has stopped pedaling.

New Energy’s discreet, low-profile MotionPower systems are designed to capture the unused kinetic energy of slowing heavy commercial vehicles only at points where they are required to slow down or come to a stop, thus ensuring that moving vehicles are not ‘robbed’ of energy otherwise required to accelerate. Once captured, the company’s MotionPower technology creatively converts this excess kinetic energy into sustainable electricity.

The MotionPower-Heavy system will be tested at Heller’s 8.7 million square foot flagship Industrial Park located in Edison, NJ. The site is located at interchange 10 at the New Jersey Turnpike, the nation’s fifth busiest toll road in the heart of the Northeast Corridor, midway between Boston and Washington, D.C. and between New York City and Philadelphia with direct links to Newark Liberty International Airport, Philadelphia Airport and the Port of New York and New Jersey, the third-largest seaport in North America and the largest maritime cargo center on the East Coast.