RG&E and NYSEG are teaming up to help with the shortage of medical supplies in New York State. The energy service companies are donating more than 17,500 surgical masks and N95 respirators to the state. The masks and respirators will first be delivered to a state receiving center. That center will then distribute them to the facilities that have the most need for the equipment. The companies say they are also reinforcing the electrical systems at hospitals, nursing homes, foo

Workers charged with keeping the lights on in New York are now living on-site at upstate control centers to avoid the coronavirus. Four teams of control-room operators for the New York Independent System Operator moved into trailers at two sites this week, a voluntary sequestration that could last weeks. The highly skilled workers are essential to managing the flow of electricity on the grid and need to be kept isolated from potential infection, according to Richard Dewey, NY

The results of NYSERDA’s most recent renewable energy request for proposals are in. 21 large-scale renewable projects totaling 1,278 MW in new capacity have been awarded, with 17 of those projects and 1,090 MW being solar. Image: Daroga Power Earlier this month, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo revealed the project award recipients for the New York Energy Research and Development Authority’s (NYSERDA) most recent renewable energy request for proposals (RFP). In total, 21 large-

Zinc8 Energy Solutions, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, has announced a deployment agreement, with New York-based private sector developer of CHP plants Digital Energy Corp., for the installation of a 100 kW Zinc-Air Battery Energy Storage System in Brooklyn, New York. Courtesy of Zinc8 Energy Solutions The installation is financially supported by NYSERDA (The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority) which energy efficiency and the use of renewable ener

New York Truck Voucher Incentive Program Will Help Replace Older, Heavily Polluting Diesel Transit Buses with New All-Electric Transit Buses Funding for New York Power Authority to Install Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure for New All-Electric Transit Buses “Clean Transportation NY” Plan for Settlement Funds Invests Resources to Reduce Pollution and Bolster Clean Transportation Within Environmental Justice Areas Multi-Agency Effort Will Invest in All-Electric Transi

County, City and town officials on City Hall Steps to call for more funding support for green energy, green jobs. They say pace of climate change fight has to increase. CREDIT CHRIS BOLT/WAER NEWS A wide range of elected officials is pushing New York to invest more in renewable energy and green jobs.  The County, City and Town leaders agree the state is more progressive than many others.  But they want more help with local actions to effectively fight climate change. New York

Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.com When the New York State Fair opened last August, Gov. Andrew Cuomo made a surprise announcement: By 2023, he vowed, the fairgrounds would be completely free of fossil fuels and would run exclusively on renewable energy. Will that ever happen? That’s not clear. In the six months since the governor’s pledge, no details of the ambitious plan have emerged. The agency studying how such a massive shift could happen says it’s still in the study ph

Photo: Will Waldron A reduced Common Council voted 8-1, with two members voting present, to approve a new law on Monday that will automatically enroll city residents in a program that relies more on renewable energy sources to power their homes. The program, known as Community Choice Aggregation, allows local governments to band together to negotiate prices from alternative energy sources through the Municipal Electric and Gas Alliance. The electricity and billing would still

The owner of The Marriott Downtown Syracuse Hotel wants the hotel to have as low of a carbon footprint as possible. That means changing out some of the lights. CREDIT JOHN SMITH / WAER NEWS The Marriott Downtown Syracuse Hotel is one of the first buildings in Upstate New York to use a special tool that helps with efficiency and reducing energy use. Owner Ed Riley says he’s trying to make the hotel as close to net zero, meaning the lowest carbon footprint as possible. He used

Broome County announced it has deployed three new buses using electric–hybrid technology produced by the BAE Systems plant in Endicott. The company last Thursday held a ribbon-cutting event to mark the occasion. Pictured, from left to right, are: Tanya Husick, executive director of transportation and parking services at Binghamton University; Gregory Kilmer, commissioner of the department of public transportation for Broome County; Steve Trichka, VP and general manager for po