New York State Electric & Gas Corp. and Rochester Gas & Electric Corp. have filed their 2020 Distributed System Implementation Plan, the Avangrid Inc. subsidiaries’ strategy to integrate distributed energy resources (DER) into the New York grid. The plan outlines ...

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New York State and private colleges are linking arms to support cleaner energy. The state announced on Tuesday a memorandum of understanding between the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities, ...

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A local company that has been developing a solar panel that can produce more energy and be made more quickly has earned a $4 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy to scale up its technology and process. Energy ...

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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?...

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Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of Rochester both won $1 million grants in a statewide college competition to develop energy saving and sustainability projects. Suffolk County Community College on Long Island won the third prize offered in the ...

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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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The state is setting aside $15 million to fund projects that will modernize New York’s power grid through renewable energy supplies, efficiency and overall performance. Energy entrepreneurs have until July 18 to submit concept papers for the competitive awards in ...

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Clean energy jobs increased at a rate of 3.4 percent in New York in 2016, double the job growth rate of all industries across the state. The figure comes from the “2017 New York Clean Energy Industry Report,” recently published ...

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By spending less time in the classroom at St. John Fisher College, Michael Boller may actually expand his teaching. Boller, an associate professor of biology at Fisher, has launched the college’s new Center for Sustainability, a two-year project focusing on ...

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A former Sierra Club president, an international environmental advocate from the Onondaga Nation and an author and ecologist are all featured speakers at the NY Climate Solutions Summit Saturday, Oct. 28. The event is being held at the Harley School, 1981 ...

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