True to his campaign promises to do more for alternative energy production in New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo re-booted the governmental process to expand the offshore wind energy industry in New York. Joint Project Gets Blowing On September 15 the Long Island-New York City Offshore Wind Project applied for a lease to set-up and run …
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Acciona Energy is now making a bid to develop a 76.5-megawatt wind farm, which is projected to create 150 temporary jobs during construction and between 6 and 10 permanent jobs when the farm is up and running. Clear Economic Benefits for New York The project manager of the St. Lawrence Wind Farm, Timothy Q. Conboy …
The mega successful search engine developer Google has been busy developing projects in the renewable energy sector. Wind Farm in California Google has already invested $400 million in a variety of clean-energy projects, with $55 million dedicated to the support of a wind farm in California. And more is coming to the rest of the …
Watch this informative video discussing the emerging wind-energy industry in New York State.
A new report shows that the next direction for progress in the development of alternative forms of energy resources lies in offshore wind. According to the report there are now in the works about six gigawatts (GW) worth of offshore wind projects on the Atlantic coast. This amount of energy is the equivalent of five …
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Education is the main thrust of the School Power…Naturally program. Sponsored by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, this innovative program seeks to give teachers and students the materials to become more informed about solar and wind power solutions as alternative energy resources, especially for New Yorkers. School Power…Naturally is a $2.1 …
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Governments are afraid to ask consumers to pay even a little bit more for cleaner and more environmentally friendly sources of power because of the bad state of the economy.
New York State is so motivated to get to 25% of all power used in the state to originate from natural, renewable sources that it is offering monetary incentives to help citizens join in the effort.
Lackawanna, New York is the site of an old Bethlehem Steel which has been converted recently into a wind farm which produces enough electricity to power 7,000 homes.
The New York State Virtual Wind Farm Tool allows students to understand the elements involved in designing wind farms.