Category: Long Island

Eastern Energy Systems Inc. Installs the Largest Wind Turbine in the History of Long Island - 100kW Wind Turbine Made Possible Through LIPA’s Backyard Wind Initiative

New York—Eastern Energy Systems Inc. completed the installation of the largest wind turbine in the history of Long Island this December of 2009. Lloyd Rasweiler, owner of Half Hollow Nursery Inc. a wholesale only nursery located in Laurel, New York, comm… more »

Osprey’s Dominion First Vineyard on Long Island to Install a Wind Turbine

Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) in partnership with Osprey’s Dominion Vineyard and Eastern Energy Systems (E2sys) today celebrated the ground breaking for the first Wind Power turbine located at a vineyard on Long Island at Osprey’s Dominion Vineyard… more »

LIPA and Smithtown Schools Announce Largest School Solar Project on Long Island

The Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) ... announced on September 10, 2009 that the Smithtown Central School District has partnered with the Authority to upgrade its facilities by participating in LIPA’s Solar Entrepreneur Program and Efficiency Long Isl… more »

LIPA Announces “Cash for Clunkers” Refrigerator Replacement, Removal and Recycling Program

The Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) announced plans for a new Refrigerator Replacement, Removal, and Recycling program (LIPA’s 4Rs Program) aimed at promoting the elimination of old, inefficient, energy guzzling refrigerators for residential customers… more »

New Flood Rules, With a Price Tag

According to an article by Joseph Berger in the New York Times ... A five-year, $1 billion project by the Federal Emergency Management Agency [is drawing] new maps pinpointing places that are vulnerable to the kind of flood that occurs once a century… more »