Renewable Energy

wind farm web
Energy Renewable Energy The Business Accelerator

Power Begins to Flow From South Fork Wind

Beth Young
Pictured Above: The first offshore wind turbine to send power to Long Island (foreground), with the third turbine being installed. In total, 12 turbines at the South Fork Wind Farm are slated to provide enough power for 70,000 Long Island homes. |. Beth Young photos Dotting the horizon like large vertical liferafts emerging from the fog, a grid of 12 yellow monopoles that will become the foundations for the South
Read More
SFW First Turbine Final Blade 111923 web
Renewable Energy The Business Accelerator

South Fork Wind’s First Turbine Has Been Installed, as Industry Regroups

Beth Young
As the offshore wind industry regroups after several recent setbacks, the first of 12 offshore wind turbines for South Fork Wind has been installed at a site about 35 miles off of Montauk, a historic milestone in what is expected to be the first utility-scale wind farm in federal waters in the United States. The wind farm, which will connect to a substation in East Hampton via a cable that
Read More
birds on a wire
Coastal Resilience Environment Renewable Energy Top Stories

Our Electric Future

Beth Young
From efforts afoot in Southampton Town to enable residents to choose renewable energy when paying their electric bills and join a new community solar program, to a push in East Hampton to require new homes be all electric to changes on the horizon with LIPA’s operating structure to a just-inked agreement allowing Greenport’s municipal electric service to pay back homeowners for the electricity their solar panels contribute to the grid,
Read More
lipa_pole
Climate Change Renewable Energy Southampton

League to Host South Fork Energy Forum

Beth Young
The League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, Shelter Island and North Fork will be holding a public information program on Southampton and East Hampton Town energy issues on Monday, Sept. 18, 7 p.m. at Bridgehampton’s Hampton Library, 2478 Main Street. The program, organized by the League’s Sustainability Committee Chair Terry Wildrick, will include speakers Lynn Arthur, Energy Chair of Southampton Town’s Sustainability Committee, and Lena Tabori, a member of
Read More
An illustration of the Sunrise Wind Farm
Renewable Energy The Business Accelerator

Sunrise Wind to Host Virtual Open House as South Fork Wind Farm Gears Up for Turbine Installation

Beth Young
Sunrise Wind, a 924-megawatt offshore wind farm partnership between Ørsted and Eversource adjacent to the companies' South Fork Wind Farm, will hold a virtual open house to inform the public about the wind farm’s construction process this Wednesday, Aug. 16 at 6 p.m. The wind farm will power Long Island through a transmission cable slated to come ashore at Smith Point Beach and tie into a substation off of William
Read More
canal bess
Government Renewable Energy Top Stories

As Battery Storage by the Canal Riles Up Hampton Bays, Southampton Town To Consider Including Project in Moratorium

Beth Young
Pictured Above: The site plan for the proposed Canal Southampton BESS project. Residents of Hampton Bays are boisterously opposed to a large Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) just east of the Shinnecock Canal, and during nearly three hours of testimony July 11 they let the Southampton Town Board know they don't believe a proposed three-month moratorium on new BESS applications that doesn't include this application does enough to protect them
Read More
mini-split-heat-pump-one-to-one
Opinion Renewable Energy Top Stories

Opinion: Heed the Cry, Electrify

East End Beacon
Pictured Above: Mini-split air source heat pump air conditioning and heating units are now designed to work well under harsh winter conditions. by Anshul Gupta and Gordian Raacke The most recent reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, prepared and reviewed by thousands of scientists and experts from 195 countries, spell a grim climate prognosis following the failure of the world’s leading carbon polluters to take meaningful action, due
Read More
Beach Lane aerial May 2023
Renewable Energy The Business Accelerator

South Fork Wind Reaches A Milestone with Completion of Onshore Cable Work

Beth Young
South Fork Wind marked completion of the project's onshore export cable system this week, after 15 months of work trenching and laying cable down 4.1 miles of back roads and Long Island Rail Road rights of way to a substation in East Hampton Village. Representatives for the wind farm say this portion of the work has been completed on schedule, putting South Fork Wind on track to meet its goal
Read More
lipa time of day
Renewable Energy The Business Accelerator

Test-Driving LIPA’s New Rate Structure

Beth Young
The Long Island Power Authority is dramatically changing the way customers pay for electricity in 2024, and ratepayers can get a glimpse now of how changes to rates can affect them. The electric company’s new Time-of-Day rate plan, adopted by LIPA’s Board of Trustees on March 29, 2023, will officially begin to be phased in at the start of 2024, and through 2025, according to LIPA. Customers will then be
Read More
wind_farm_liftboat
Environment Renewable Energy The Business Accelerator Top Stories

More Wind Farms Over the Horizon

Beth Young
Pictured Above: A liftboat off Beach Lane in Wainscott in early March as the cable-laying work on the South Fork Wind Farm got underway. As the South Fork Wind Farm work shifts from onshore cable laying to offshore work this spring, offshore wind developers pitched eight new projects in late January for the New York State Energy Research & Development Agency’s latest round of solicitations for offshore wind. South Fork
Read More
Southold Town Supervisor Scott Russell (Standing, Center) at the Cutchogue Civic Association Forum on Battery Energy Storage Systems.
Government Renewable Energy

Southold Seeks to Sway Direction of Future Battery Energy Storage Projects

Beth Young
Pictured Above: Southold Town Supervisor Scott Russell (Standing, Center) at the Cutchogue Civic Association Forum on Battery Energy Storage Systems. The Southold Town Board is likely to put a proposal for a moratorium on battery energy storage facilities up for a public hearing in February, said board members at their Jan. 17 work session. The moratorium would be designed to give the town a chance to develop siting and safety
Read More