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Albany County Industrial Solar Facilities 🌞 🏭

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Albany County Industrial Solar Facilities 🌞 🏭

Here is a listing of the industrial solar facilities currently operating in Albany County.

Plant Name Entity Name Nameplate Capacity (MW) Operating Month Operating Year Latitude Longitude Google Map Bing Map
Owens Corning at Bethlehem Constellation Solar Holding, LLC 2.0 10 2013 42.586944 -73.865000 Map Map
Bethlehem – East DG Bethlehem Solar, LLC 1.7 3 2016 42.539006 -73.824300 Map Map
Bethlehem – West DG Bethlehem Solar, LLC 1.0 3 2016 42.539006 -73.824300 Map Map
Guildlerland CSG Forefront Power, LLC 2.0 12 2018 42.727288 -74.000810 Map Map
Knaggs Brothers Farm Dynamic Energy Solutions, LLC 3.9 12 2018 42.730350 -73.969100 Map Map
Bethlehem Solar Forefront Power, LLC 1.7 6 2019 42.601145 -73.887420 Map Map
Westerlo NY 1 Westerlo NY 1, LLC 2.0 1 2020 42.438220 -74.015890 Map Map
Medusa NY 1 Medusa NY 1, LLC 2.0 6 2020 42.466286 -74.099530 Map Map

Below is the listing of two additional proposed industrial solar facilities for Albany County.

Plant Name Entity Name Nameplate Capacity (MW) Planned Operation Month Planned Operation Year Status County Latitude Longitude Google Map Bing Map
Hecate Energy Gedney Hill Hecate Energy Gedney Hill LLC 20.0 6 2022 (P) Planned for installation, but regulatory approvals not initiated Albany 42.451733 -73.892840 Map Map
Hecate Energy Albany County 1 Hecate Energy Albany 1 LLC 20.0 6 2022 (P) Planned for installation, but regulatory approvals not initiated Albany 42.515459 -73.833450 Map Map

Data Source: Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory, April 2021. https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860m/

Operating and Under Construction Industrial Solar Facilties in New York State – April 2021

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This interactive map shows currently operating (green), under construction more then 50% complete (yellow), under construction less then 50% complete (red) industrial solar facilities (multi-acre, 1+ MW nameplate) in New York State as of April 2021, as reported by the Energy Information Agency as of June 24, 2021 -- there is a two month lag in the data for compilation and error checking.

Data Source: Energy Information Agency, Preliminary Monthly Electricity Generator Facilities EIA-860M, Released June 24, 2021. Get the data: eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860m

Why High LPW Means Sacrificing Fixture Performance –

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Exposing the LED Lumens Per Watt Loophole: Why High LPW Means Sacrificing Fixture Performance –

For a long time I've been fascinated by very energy efficient LED bulbs rather than the rather energy hogging LED bulbs currently available. Why don't manufacturers make energy efficient bulbs?

For one, it's cheaper to overdrive and abuse LED bulbs so they burn out quicker and require fewer chips. But also most of the ultra efficient bulbs - those pushing 200 lumens a watt have lousey color rendition, are cold white, put out a lot of glare and don't do a good job at putting light where needed. 

NPR

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Exxon Lobbyist Caught On Sting Video Describes Anti-Climate Moves : NPR

Indiscreet comments made by an Exxon Mobil lobbyist to undercover activists may figure prominently in upcoming congressional hearings about the role of oil companies in the battle against climate change.

Video clips released by the Greenpeace investigation project Unearthed show Keith McCoy, the oil giant's senior director for federal relations, talking frankly about Exxon Mobil's lobbying strategies. Channel 4 from the United Kingdom first reported the comments.

McCoy was tricked by the activists who said they were job recruiters. He talked about working with "shadow groups," supporting a carbon tax that he believes will never happen and influencing senators to weaken climate elements of President Biden's infrastructure plan.

"Joe Manchin, I talk to his office every week," McCoy bragged to the interviewer. He called the Democratic senator from West Virginia a "kingmaker" and discussed how "on the Democrat side we look for the moderates on these issues" in their efforts to stop policies that could hurt the company's business.

NASA satellites see upper atmosphere cooling and contracting due to climate change

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NASA satellites see upper atmosphere cooling and contracting due to climate change

The sky isn't falling, but scientists have found that parts of the upper atmosphere are gradually contracting in response to rising human-made greenhouse gas emissions.

Combined data from three NASA satellites have produced a long-term record that reveals the mesosphere, the layer of the atmosphere 30 to 50 miles above the surface, is cooling and contracting. Scientists have long predicted this effect of human-driven climate change, but it has been difficult to observe the trends over time.

"You need several decades to get a handle on these trends and isolate what's happening due to greenhouse gas emissions, solar cycle changes, and other effects," said Scott Bailey, an atmospheric scientist at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, and lead of the study, published in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. "We had to put together three satellites' worth of data."

Together, the satellites provided about 30 years of observations, indicating that the summer mesosphere over Earth's poles is cooling four to five degrees Fahrenheit and contracting 500 to 650 feet per decade. Without changes in human carbon dioxide emissions, the researchers expect these rates to continue.