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NYSERDA Offers No Cost Energy Assessments to All New York Homeowners

One-to-Four Family Homes Are Now Eligible for No Cost Energy Audits Through New Residential Energy Audit Program Supports the State’s Mandate to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions 40 Percent by 2030 and Governor Cuomo’s Green New Deal The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) today announced it is providing no cost energy audits to New York State homeowners across all income levels. The offer supports the State’s mandate to reduce greenhouse gas emis

Mack Trucks shows off electric garbage truck, due to hit New York City streets later this year

Mack Trucks shows off electric garbage truck, due to hit New York City streets later this year

Born and raised in Queens, Rocky DiRico is a self-described old-timer, someone with a thick growl of a New York accent who started turning wrenches as a truck mechanic with the New York City Department of Sanitation in 1978. He became a procurement supervisor shortly after, rising through the ranks to deputy commissioner in 2001, a post he still holds today. DiRico found himself 90 miles west on Thursday, laying his eyes on what he considers “the most exciting” product develo

US hit record $55.5B renewables investments in 2019

US hit record $55.5B renewables investments in 2019

Credit: Catherine Morehouse, Utility Dive Dive Brief: The U.S. hit a record $55.5 billion in renewable energy investments in 2019, as overall global investments beat out 2018, thanks to a flurry of wind investments at the end of the year, according to a recent report. Worldwide investment hit $282.2 billion in 2019, up $2 billion since 2018, according to a BloombergNEF report released Thursday on 2019 clean energy investment trends. New wind and solar is estimated to have hit

EIA: Wind, solar PV will outpace U.S. gas-fired capacity additions in 2020

EIA: Wind, solar PV will outpace U.S. gas-fired capacity additions in 2020

The majority of new electric generation capacity being brought online this year will come from solar and wind projects, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s latest inventory of power generators. Of the 42 GW in new capacity additions expected in 2020, solar and wind should provide three-fourths of that mix, according to the EIA. Operators expect to bring 18.5 GW of utility-scale wind online this year, surpassing the record of 13.2 GW commissioned eight ye

Syracuse University to reform Climate Action Plan years after release

Syracuse University will update its commitment to become carbon-neutral by 2040. The Syracuse University Sustainability Management team plans to update the Climate Action Plan starting this semester, said Nathan Prior, SU director of Energy Systems and Sustainability Management. The CAP, released in 2009, summarizes the university’s efforts to become carbon-neutral and produce zero net greenhouse gas emissions. The updated plan will account for SU’s Campus Framework and Acade

Climate change: Earth had its hottest decade on record in 2010s

Climate change: Earth had its hottest decade on record in 2010s

WASHINGTON (AP) — The decade that just ended was by far the hottest ever measured on Earth, capped off by the second-warmest year on record, two U.S. agencies reported Wednesday. And scientists said they see no end to the way man-made climate change keeps shattering records. “This is real. This is happening,” Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said at the close of a decade plagued by raging wildfires, melting ice and extreme weather that re

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