Cayuga Solar

06/22/2017

Thank you NYS Department of Environmental Conservation for recognizing the efforts made in Tompkins County and City of Ithaca, New York to fight climate change!

ITHACA, N.Y. — Tompkins County and the Town of Ithaca have been commended by New York State for their strides combating climate change. Recently, the county and town were the first communities in the Southern Tier to be named Certified Climate Smart Communities.

06/21/2017

Recent poll shows broad support for repowering and renewables in Tompkins County

A poll of Tompkins County residents shows broad and firm support across all demographic groups for the repowering of the Cayuga Operating Company coal

06/21/2017

Congratulations to Tompkins County, NY and the City of Ithaca, New York for being recognized by Governor Andrew Cuomo as certified climate smart communities in New York State!

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06/07/2017

Jerry Goodenough, Vice President of Development for Cayuga Operating Company, and State Senator Pam Helming discuss the land to be utilized for the Cayuga Solar project.

06/05/2017

We had a vision to maintain Cayuga as a critical part of the state's energy grid. What we saw here was not just an old coal plant, but the opportunity to create something more.

What value could a coal-powered plant have in today's market and an environment in which it is increasingly harder to gain support for fossil-fuel powered plants? Quite a lot, as it turns out.

06/05/2017

Cayuga Solar will work with Lansing School District and Tompkins Cortland Community College about incorporating operation of the solar farm into the school curriculum.

06/04/2017

Cayuga Operating Plant was one of just four facilities in the United States highlighted by the Solar Energy Industry Association as being feasible for such a project to take place.

At a solar-powered news conference on a sunny Wednesday in Lansing, management of the coal-fired Cayuga Operating Plant – and new partners Beowulf Energy, an international infrastructure holding company –

06/03/2017

Thanks to renewable power subsidies adopted last year by state regulators, the Cayuga solar farm is one of roughly three dozen large solar installations around the state that have sought permission to tie into the power grid.

Solar panels would cover 75 acres.

06/03/2017

The co-location of a large-scale solar farm with an existing coal plant represents the energy transition underway in New York and across the United States.

It was just a few years ago that Cayuga Operating Company was on the verge of closing their coal plant in Lansing, but today they are planning for a new future in solar. The company unveiled plans to construct one of the state’s largest solar farms at its 434-acre site in Lansing. Ironically, the so...

06/03/2017

Cayuga Solar is expected to generate enough energy to power more than 3,000 homes

06/03/2017

The Cayuga Operating Company announcing plans to build one of the state's largest solar farms at its 434 acre site in the Town of Lansing.