[FLPERMACULTURE] [Fwd: "Solar power shines in Ithaca"]

[Michael Burns]

This does not include the many homes who are not on the grid...

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Subject: [SustainableTompkins] "Solar power shines in Ithaca"
From:    "Marian Brown" <mbrown at ithaca.edu>
Date:    Mon, April 2, 2007 12:22 pm
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Ok, so maybe this headline is a little easier to believe today - when the sun
is shining - but this was the headline in the Utility Notebook  section of the
Syracuse Post-Standard yesterday (4/1/07). Reporter Tim Knauss went on to
write:

Ithaca is the solar power capital of Upstate New York. So says the New  York
State Energy Research and Development Authority, which distributes  financial
incentives for small-scale solar power.

NYSERDA has created a map showing where solar installations have been  done,
and ZIP code 14850 - Ithaca - stands out like supernova.

(See the map at http://www.clean-power.com/PowerNaturally/default.aspx.  Click
on "Systems by Location.")

There are at least 41 houses or businesses with solar panels in Ithaca, 
producing a total of 176 kilowatts. If you add in the smaller
communities in Ithaca's orbit, such as Trumansburg and Freeville, the  number
is even larger.

No other area of Upstate comes close. Rhinebeck, in Dutchess County, is  No. 2
with 14 installations.

/Marian

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