Tag: Gordian Raacke

10/28/17 8:00am

Suffolk Closeup: A boat ride into the future

Deepwater Wind, Gordian Raacke, Joseph O’Byrne, Montauk, Renewable Energy Long Island, Sylvester Manor, The Block Island Wind Farm, The New York State Energy and Research Development Authority

KARL GROSSMAN PHOTO

“On a clear day, you can see the future,” is the heading of a full-page Citibank ad that’s been running in major magazines featuring a color photo of the first offshore wind farm in the United States.

Two weeks ago I visited this facility, which is 37 miles east of Shelter Island off Block Island. The trip was organized by its builder, Deepwater Wind, and Renewable Energy Long Island, a group that has long urged the utilization of the wind that blows off our shores. (more…)

09/24/16 8:00am

Suffolk Closeup: The future of energy is now

Bill Nye, Deepwater Wind, Gordian Raacke, Insolight, Reason in Revolt, Renewable Energy Long Island, the Independent, the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University, The Solutions Project, The Telegraph.

COURTESY PHOTO | Massive wind turbines out at sea could be a clean solution to Long Island’s energy needs.

East Hampton Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell was speaking the other day with satisfaction about the town’s plan to have 100 percent of its electricity come from renewable energy — safe, clean, green power — by 2020. That’s just four years away.

After the East Hampton Town Board in 2014 unanimously adopted a resolution to have all the town’s electricity come from renewable sources, Mr. Cantwell said: “Making the switch to clean energy is just the right thing to do, both for the environment and for keeping more money in the local economy and creating jobs here.”

At East Hampton Town Hall recently he said: “We’re doing it!” (more…)

05/29/16 8:00am

Suffolk Closeup: The answer is blowin’ in the wind

Affiliated Brookhaven Civic Organizations, Bridgehampton Citizens Advisory Committee, Deepwater Wind, Evans K. Griffing, Gordian Raacke, LIPA, LIPA Ratepayers Protection Act, Renewable Energy Long Island

COURTESY PHOTO | Massive wind turbines out at sea could be a clean solution to Long Island’s energy needs.

A line of speakers testified last week at a state-sponsored hearing at the Suffolk County Center in Riverside on a plan that would have 50 percent of the electricity used in New York in 2030 come from renewable power. (more…)

05/22/16 8:00am

Suffolk closeup: Why is PSEG our power utility?