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Standing before a field of tens of thousands of solar panels in Hilton, Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo announced on Wednesday that she has created a sustainability team to carry on work like the solar array and other energy-saving projects ...

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You won’t find Deborah Stendardi’s name on the buildings at Rochester Institute of Technology. She’s not listed on the mastheads of various centers and institutes at the university. But her imprint is just about everywhere in Brick City, playing a ...

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The Genesee County Economic Development Center has approved incentives for the construction of two solar farms in the Town of Batavia. The developer, Pearl Solar LLC, will invest roughly $6 million to build two 2MW community solar farms, for a ...

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When George Eastman started building Kodak Park in 1891, the first building constructed in the former orchard was a power plant. Such was the importance of energy to the camera and film manufacturer. In 2018, energy is still critical and ...

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The autos were rolling in, so the lumalon people had to pack up and move aside temporarily. Lumalon, a Pittsford company specializing in light-emitting diode, or LED, illumination, is executing an $866,000 contract to install LED lighting at six buildings ...

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Up to $5 million is being made available for transportation-related clean technology projects, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority said Friday. NYSERDA will award the funding as part of a two-step competitive process for proposals that include ...

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A company that specializes in lower-cost geothermal energy systems has moved into the Rochester area. Dandelion Home Geothermal Systems, which started through an research and development arm of Google, has partnered with Lake Country Geothermal of Walworth, Wayne County, to ...

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Five Rochester-area companies are among the 20 finalists in the 76West Clean Energy Competition, vying for $2.5 million in prize money. New York State Energy Research and Development Agency announced the finalists today (Friday, June 29). The five were among ...

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Get a grip on energy supply and transmission and you can put out a much better welcome mat for business development. That was the primary message speakers drove home at the State of the Region breakfast June 19 sponsored by ...

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US Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand announced today that $80 million—a $5 million increase—for the University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics is included in the Senate version of the energy and water appropriations bill for 2019. The ...

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Lagoner Farms in Williamson, Wayne County, has earned a $15,497 grant from Rochester Gas and Electric to upgrade electrical service and capacity for its continuing expansion. The fifth-generation farm business sells fresh produce at farmers markets and its own farm ...

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The proponents of a waste-to-energy plant that would be built on the site of the former Seneca Army Depot have filed suit against the Town of Romulus and its Zoning Board of Appeals for trying to block the project. Also ...

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U.S. Sen Charles E. Schumer has joined the lengthy list of those opposed to building a trash-burning power plant at the former Seneca Army Depot in Romulus, Seneca County. Schumer announced his opposition Friday afternoon at the Ventosa Winery in ...

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State regulators and local affiliates of Avangrid power company have negotiated a $3.9 million settlement of an investigation into the utility companies’ handling of wind storm outages in March 2017 that resulted in more than 170,000 customers losing power, some ...

There may not be such a thing as a free lunch, but there are free energy—as well as reduced-cost—audits for office tenants, property managers and commercial property owners in New York. Through a New York State Energy Research and Development ...