Community
The Governor is awarding the Mid-Hudson $67 million to support 61 priority projects. Some of the innovative projects include: • More than $30 million will go toward the development of affordable housing and community revitalization throughout the region. • $4 million for the development of the New York Medical College’s Biotech Incubator Center for Advanced Research in Westchester County. This project will stimulate partnerships among scores of biotech companies not only in the Mid-Hudson Region, [...]
Why is energy such an important driver in economic development? The Mid-Hudson region’s households spend $2.4 billion on utilities per year ($3,000 for space heating and appliances per household per year). If just 5% savings were achieved through common energy upgrades, the residential sector alone would save $119 million annually.*
The cheapest, cleanest electron is the one you do not use. I applaud Mayor Bloomberg’s study of the impacts of shutting Indian Point’s 2 nuclear reactors. But reporting on such work is fatally incomplete without the including of the positive impact of improving energy efficiency in our buildings. Real energy efficiency in metropolitan New York can reduce electric demand equal to 25% of the current output of Indian Point. That should be the first place [...]
