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Southampton Town Aims To Be 100 Percent Green By 2025

Feb
15

           

Southampton officials, from left, Frank Zappone, Lynn Arthur, Janice Scherer and Mike Lieberman with a Nissan Leaf, one of the town's new electric vehicles. Photo Credit: Joseph D. Sullivan

newsday.com - by Vera Chinese - February 15, 2018

Southampton Town will take several steps this year to move toward its goal of meeting all of the community’s energy consumption needs through renewable sources by 2025.

Unlike fossil fuels, renewable energy sources are ones that can be replaced naturally and repeatedly. The ambitious mark requires not only looking to renewable energy — possibly through a plan that could replace PSEG as the default energy supplier in town — but also reducing consumption, Southampton Town Deputy Supervisor Frank Zappone said during a recent town board work session.

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Critics Rip Into LIPA Plan to Alter Solar Power Valuation

Dec
03

           

Justin Bell, LIPA's director of rates and regulation, speaks about the utility's new solar-energy pricing scheme, during a Uniondale meeting on Monday, Nov. 27, 2017. Photo Credit: Newsday / Mark Harrington

LIPA says the goal is to make sure the excess energy produced by home and business solar is properly valued so the programs last.

newsday.com - by Mark Harrington - November 27, 2017

A contingent of solar-energy installers, environmentalists and a construction company on Monday criticized a LIPA proposal that would alter the current system for valuing power produced by solar and other green-energy systems, saying it would stifle growth in a market already pressured by reduced state incentives.

At hearings in Hauppauge and Uniondale to seek input on the new plan, critics were unanimous in castigating the new system, which they said adds uncertainty and complexity to a program that works just fine in its current form. . . .

 . . . The Long Island Solar Energy Industry Association, an industry group, has launched a petition drive to oppose the program, which it says, will “negatively impact solar adoption at a time when we need to accelerate” it.

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Green Options Advisory Committee Hears Solar Plan

Nov
30

Michael McDonald of Global Resilience Initiatives of Washington, D.C., shared a vision of energy independence with the town’s Green Options Advisory Committee last week.  JULIE LANE PHOTO

shelterislandreporter.timesreview.com - by Julie Lane - October 3, 2017

Ongoing coverage of the devastation Hurricane Maria left in Puerto Rico should be enough to prompt East End residents to plan for an age of energy independence separate from PSEG.

That’s how Michael McDonald of Washington, D.C.-based Global Resilience Initiatives Inc. sees it, and he’s working with East End officials to make energy dependence on a single source a thing of the past.

Mr. McDonald met with Shelter Island Green Options Advisory Committee members September 28 to talk about a time when PSEG would no longer have a monopoly providing electricity, but would have to compete for customers with energy cooperatives that would use 100 percent renewable solar power.

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South Fork Grid Consortium

Nov
20

The South Fork Grid Consortium is working to 100% renewable energy in East Hampton and Southampton.  It is doing so while directly addressing its severe peak load problem with local solar and wind production behind the meter combined with demand response from local green businesses boosting local green jobs, while strengthening local value chains. 

To get a sense of how this is done, look at the South Fork Grid Manifesto: Principles for a 100% Renewable Energy System.

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