With several offshore wind projects in development on Long Island, the New York Power Authority (NYPA) is incorporating the technology into its STEM programs statewide and launching the curriculum in Long Island classrooms. The lessons about renewable energy are also available to educators statewide on NYPA’s Virtual Learning Center. “Offshore wind will be an increasingly important topic over the next decade, and it is vital that our students, particularly underserved youth,

Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory, December 2022 Developers plan to add 54.5 gigawatts (GW) of new utility-scale electric-generating capacity to the U.S. power grid in 2023, according to our Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory. More than half of this capacity will be solar power (54%), followed by battery storage (17%). Solar. U.S. utility-scale solar capacity has been rising rapidly since 2010.

GE's Haliade-X offshore wind turbine - Image Credit: Danny Cornelissen for GE Renewable Energy (file photo) General Electric recently filed a plan to build two new offshore wind manufacturing facilities in New York if it wins enough orders from companies in the state’s ongoing solicitation for up to 4.6 GW of offshore wind. GE proposed building the factories with Carver Companies at their Port of Coeymans site. The company said that, should it receive sufficient order volume

AlphaStruxure The largest rooftop solar array in New York City and on any U.S. airport terminal will illuminate John F. Kennedy International Airport’s future New Terminal One in just a few years, the firms behind the project announced on Thursday. The massive photovoltaic system — of more than 13,000 solar panels — will help power an independent microgrid poised to transform the terminal “into the first fully resilient airport transit hub in the New York region,” according t