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INSTALLERS EMPOWER PUERTO RICO
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Shortly after Hurricane Maria struck, John Siciliani of the South Brooklyn Solar Coalition and former Executive Director of NYSEIA posted an urgent request for equipment on the NYC Solar Installer Roundtable: Did anyone have
any modules, controllers, inverters, batteries, etc., they could spare?
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TR Ludwig, CEO of Brooklyn SolarWorks helps to unload 220 solar panels donated and delivered by Solar Energy Systems of Brooklyn
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Walter Meyer, who had formed Power Rockaway Resilience after Hurricane Sandy, had just launched
Resilient Power Puerto Rico with the assistance of the Coastal Marine Resource Center and
NYC solar installers immediately responded with enthusiasm. Truckloads of equipment soon began arriving at a donated space in a warehouse; other installers simply donated cash.
Full story and more pictures
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Donated PV equipment needed for the next shipment to Puerto Rico. Installers please contact John Siciliani at johnsic@gmail.com
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NEW ENERGY STORAGE FACT SHEET
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Sustainable CUNY is pleased to share a new resource, the
New York Energy Storage Services Fact Sheet, recently published by NY-BEST, one of three implementation partners along with the
CUNY Smart DG Hub that are implementing NYSERDA's Energy Storage Soft Costs Reduction initiative. This fact sheet summarizes value streams currently available for energy storage systems installed in New York State, and includes information on service classifications and demand response programs for each New York utility. The CUNY Smart DG Hub is working closely with NY-BEST on outreach and education efforts to the NYS solar industry on storage and solar+storage and looks forward to continuing to share resources with vendors over the coming months. For more information contact an ombudsman at
dghub@cuny.edu.
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SHARING SOLAR ROOFS IN NYC
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NYC Partnership Offers Solar Matchmaking
Solar capacity in America's largest city continues to soar. However, 45% of New York City residents are renters, and those who do own often have a complicated relationship with their rooftops. Community shared solar allows individuals, groups and businesses to purchase or subscribe to portions of a large solar array based off-site and managed by a third-party. The NYC Solar Partnership, led by Sustainable CUNY with the NYC Mayor's Office of Sustainability (MOS) and the NYC Economic Development Corporation (EDC) developed the
Shared Solar NYC Gateway, an online marketplace where interested parties can sign up to find out more about hosting, developing or subscribing to a community shared solar installation. Five community shared solar projects in NYC are currently looking for subscribers, but they won't have to look for long: Nearly 2,000 potential subscribers have already expressed an interest in owning a piece of the sun through shared solar.
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SHARED SOLAR FOR 200+ NYCHA SITES
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If you are a community group or installer interested in this program contact an ombudsman at nysolar@cuny.edu.
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BOOSTING SOLARIZE CAMPAIGNS IN NYC
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Solarize NYC, a program of the NYC Solar Partnership led by Sustainable CUNY with the NYC Mayor's Office of Sustainability and the NYC Economic Development Corporation, partners with community organizations to develop campaigns designed to meet the particular challenges New York City presents to going solar en masse. The Solarize NYC program invites and reviews applications from organizations on a rolling basis, with a priority given to communities and neighborhoods that have had limited access to solar. Organizations that are well-established in their communities and can design and implement exciting campaigns that are responsive, innovative, and flexible are encouraged to apply. Successful organizational applicants will be awarded up to $20,000 for campaign costs.
Communities apply here!
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NYSolar Smart Partner Jurisdiction
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Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico exposed the trifecta of an imperfect system: Over- reliance on an aging grid, dependency on fossil fuels and a lack of resilient distributed generation (and let's not forget denial of any of the above). Even if mainland USA grids have only one of those challenges, there is still much to be learned as Puerto Rico struggles to power up again and seriously considers an end to putting all their eggs in one basket by turning to distributed generation. There is a chance here to get it right, but consideration should be given to striking the right balance on supporting all the good choices: utility scale solar, community shared solar and individual distributed generation -- which at the very least can give small businesses and homeowners a measure of control over their own resiliency. The slice of incentives that supports solar may be shrinking but there is enough sun to meet everyone's needs. Balancing the distribution of these funds is critical to ensuring fairness and an eventual weaning from fossil fuels.
Tria Case, University Director of Sustainability and Energy Conservation, City University of New York, Lead of NYC Solar Partnership
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Join Sustainable CUNY at
Solar Power NY for the panel on "
The NYC Roadmap to Resilience" at 1:30 on December 11th. Panelists will include Tanuj Deora, Executive Vice President & Chief Content Officer, Smart Electric Power Alliance,Scott Kessler, LO3 Energy, Martha Symko-Davies, Laboratory Program Manager, Energy Systems Integration, National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Ke Wei, Assistant Director for Infrastructure in the Mayor's Office of Recovery and Resiliency.
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