New York State Makes Plans For Multibillion Dollar Solar Heating Investment

Solar power has always been thought of as a green energy that had everything to do with electricity and little else. However, New York State plans to show that solar power has more to offer than bringing light to the darkness. It can also keep you warm.

Different organizations in New York have come together to come up with plans to install millions of solar powered hot water heating systems all over the state. This installation is set to take place over the next decade. The Solar Thermal Consortium devised a strategy that would give incentives to homeowners for switching over to solar powered heating from the conventional standards. The plans facilitate investments in the green service, incorporate training for installers, and aspects to attract manufactures to build them.

The Consortium hopes to have the plan up and running soon so that it can boost around $2.6 billion worth of economic activity and give over 20,000 jobs to the state. The 2010 conference in New York Solar Industries proposed the plan, which puts forward a map to promote New York State as a prime location for solar power and solar power manufacturing, invest in research and development, educate consumers on solar power, and most importantly, install multiple solar powered systems around the state.

Solar power is a renewable energy resource that benefits the consumer and the environment. With New York backing the plans to heat homes using the technology it helps make the state one of the leaders in green initiatives.

Niranjan Shah and GEC Cutting Edge Tech, UNPEPP Develops ATV Hybrid – Explores Wind/Tidal Turbines

Niranjan Shah is no stranger to technology. As CEO of Globetrotters Engineering Corporation (GEC) he works with cutting edge technology all the time. Just as Shah incorporates energy conservation measures (ECM’s) into the GEC designs, a couple other organizations are pairing up to take their crack at energy efficiency as well.

UNPEPP (University-National Park Energy Partnership Program) is a program that brings together Universities and students from around the country to help protect and maintain national parks by way of ECM’s including energy audits and renewable energy technology (RET) implementation. The students, faculty and park managers come together to bring solutions to problems that are affecting each nation world-wide.

An example of this would be in 2004 when James Madison University partnered with Shenandoah National Park to create a biodiesel/electric hybrid for an all terrain vehicle (ATV) at the national park before hybrid vehicle design had become as mainstream as it has today. The vehicle was designed, and put together by James Madison University students and allowed rangers of the park to use it when silent vehicle travel was especially necessary to keep wildlife from being scared off.  The vehicle also reduced gas consumption and harmful emissions.  More recently, the program has adapted to explore bigger systems, such as the use of tidal turbines and wind turbines for a hybrid system aimed at providing Golden Gate National Recreational Area (Alcatraz Island) with electricity.  Several years ago the electrical cable coming from the mainland was severed.  Rather than replacing the cable along the water bed, UNPEPP stepped in to seize the opportunity to implement and promote alternative energy.

Thanks to individuals and partnerships like this we get closer to a green infrastructure everyday.