Rochester’s Paradigm Environmental Services Inc. is one of 19 finalists in New York state’s 76West Clean Energy competition. The competition offers $2.5 million in prizes to companies that will build or expand clean energy business in New York’s Southern Tier, ...
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A $10,000 grant from Avangrid Foundation, in partnership with Avangrid subsidiary Rochester Gas & Electric Corp., will pay to make some summer learning camps free at the Rochester Museum & Science Center. According to the RMSC, the grant will cover ...
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The kitchen backsplashes are covered with up-to-date subway tiles. There are seven workstations, complete with sink, oven and range combo, counter space and storage cupboards and drawers. And there are even control panels operated with a code so students ...
Tagged with: Charmaine Walker Community Kitchen Education Success Foundation Foodlink Jamarr Myers Rebecca Ferri Sands Farmily Foundation wegmans
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New York State Electric & Gas Corp. this week received a penalty of $3.5 million from the state for reliability issues related to outages in 2018. The New York State Public Service Commission announced it was deducting a total of ...
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The utility company that modernized energy production at the former Kodak Park and turned it away from coal has won $5 million from a carbon-reduction contest run by New York State. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced on Friday that Recycled ...
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Suzanne Hunt’s day jobs include advising the family wine business, Hunt Country Vineyards, on sustainable technology, while maintaining a global profile as a sustainable energy consultant.
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During his college days in the 1980s, Mark Maddalina entertained club-goers in Rochester at places like the Ocean Club, Magnolia’s and the Harbor Beach Club by spinning records. He learned a great deal about how to control the mood of ...
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New York State is seeking proposals for large-scale renewable energy projects that fall in line with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s plan to have 70 percent of the state’s electricity coming from renewable sources by 2030. This third request for proposals ...
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It’s hard to imagine that when lasers were first invented there was a bit of a “so what?” reaction. In 1960, light was the main application people could envision from lasers and the question was why did we need a new source of light?...
Tagged with: Donna Strickland energy fusion Laboratory for Laser Energetics Lasers Michael Campbell Michael Pavia Optimax Systems Rochester Institute of Technology Sydor Technologies university of rochester
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Apex Clean Energy has decided to put one of its two proposed wind power projects in Orleans and Niagara Counties on hold. The company announced earlier this week that it will not seek a permit this year as planned for ...
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When Republican Congressman Bob Inglis presented legislation in 2009 that would create a tax to battle climate change, South Carolina voters thought he had gone rogue, or at least liberal. And so Inglis lost his re-election bid in the subsequent ...
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The Strong Museum is one of three Finger Lakes entities that have won new contracts for low-cost power from the New York Power Authority in its latest round of announcements. The ReCharge NY program provides power from Niagara Falls and ...
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A proposed waste-to-energy incinerator for Romulus, Seneca County, suffered a major blow Wednesday when the NY Senate unanimously approved legislation banning such incinerators in the Finger Lakes, following a similar Assembly vote last week. The Finger Lakes Community Preservation Act ...
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Heritage Christian Services is the latest entity to build solar power capacity to change its energy footprint. The nonprofit agency that supports people with intellectual and developmental disabilities has added a 2.7-megawatt solar array in the western Monroe county town ...
Tagged with: electricity GreenSpark Heritage Christian Services Kendall Sustainable Infrastructure Parma solar energy
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Nobel Prize winner Donna Strickland, who earned a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester, will be the university’s commencement speaker May 19. Strickland now teaches physics at the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada, but was recognized by the Nobel ...
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