Potsdam Summerfest 2024 Energy Zone

Potsdam Summerfest Energy Zone

Potsdam Summerfest Energy Zone

You are now entering... The Energy Zone!

A new feature emerges at this year's Potsdam Summerfest. Come power up the fun July 12th & 13th!

Adirondack Daily Enterprise: Northern Power & Light adds Potsdam dam as electricity source

Local Power in Potsdam

North Country Now covers the Village's choice to "join the Town of Potsdam as well as other regional municipalities in making the move to locally generated, renewable hydroelectricity."

Glens Falls Community Hydro Project

Community Hydro for Glens Falls!

Community Hydro for Glens Falls!

We were inspired by the enthusiasm on display at the Oct 6 press event, where Glens Falls Mayor Bill Collins and other city officials announced the initiative and encouraged residents to sign up.

Several local businesses have already enrolled, including the Charles R. Wood Theater, Queensbury Hotel, and Pure & Simple Foods. We're so happy to welcome these cornerstone businesses as NP&L customers!

Adirondack Research

Peak Power Podcast Episode 1

NP&L Peak Power Podcast Episode 1:
Texas and NY: Partners in Deregulation

In the first installment of our new Peak Power podcast, We take a look at the Texas black out, exploring similarities between the Texas and New York electricity systems and what we can learn from outages in the South. Martha wants to know who's responsible, and Emmett nerds out about "Deregulation" and the dangers of self-regulated electricity markets.

Adirondack Research

Adirondack Research on why they chose Northern Power & Light

Adirondack Research on why they chose Northern Power & Light

As director and owner of Adirondack Research, a Saranac Lake-based ecological consulting firm, Ezra Schwartzberg is well aware: It's as important to protect our environment as it is to nurture the local economy. That's a big reason why he's chosen NP&L to satisfy his company's electricity needs. 

Paul Smith's College

Paul Smith's Returns to Hydro Roots

Paul Smith's Returns to Hydro Roots

More than 100 years ago, Paul Smith - the famed hotelier, guide and entrepreneur - flipped the switch on the region's first electric company. Its first generator was a hydropower dam located right on the property that became Paul Smith's College. Now, Hydropower is back at Paul Smith's, which now satisfies all of its electricity needs through NP&L-affiliated local hydropower stations.

Gordon + Gordon Architecture - Sustainable Architecture

Harry Gordon, founder of Gordon + Gordon Architecture

Harry Gordon, founder of Gordon + Gordon Architecture

The architecture firm Gordon + Gorden is based here in Saranac Lake and specializes in sustainable, eco-friendly building design and construction. We caught up with founder Harry Gordon to learn more about the builder's philosophy and what motivated him to become a Northern Power & Light customer.

Free Hand Sanitizer initiative

Producing & Distributing
Free Local Hand Sanitizer

NP&L and Mountain Spirit Distilling
Wrapping Up Sanitizer Project

NP&L would like to thank everyone who contributed to our effort to produce and distribute hand sanitizer. We are proud to have played a small part in fighting the spread of Covid 19, with about 500,000 hand cleanings!

Adirondack Daily Enterprise: Northern Power & Light adds Potsdam dam as electricity source

Pictured: Boralex Hydro Operations Manager Erik Bergman and Facility Operator Gary McCormick. Photo by Chris Lenney

Adirondack Daily Enterprise: Northern Power & Light adds Potsdam dam as electricity source

Northern Power & Light Inc., the Saranac Lake-based power company, has added the Sissonville hydroelectric facility to its portfolio of renewable electricity producers.

Free Hand Sanitizer initiative

Producing & Distributing
Free Local Hand Sanitizer

Producing & Distributing
Free Local Hand Sanitizer

The North Country has long experience with weather-related emergencies and we're here to do what we can. Northern Power & Light is partnering with Mountain Spirit Distilling to produce hand sanitizer from locally-made high-purity ethanol.

Sunita Halasz

Sunita Halasz:
Homeschooler, EV Pioneer

Sunita Halasz:
Homeschooler, EV Pioneer

Whether creating a curriculum for her children, who she home schools, or being an early pioneer of Electric Vehicles (EVs), Sunita’s independent streak is met in equal measure with an emphasis on community and being a good steward of the wilderness she and her family inhabit.

Assemblyman Billy Jones pictured with the Northern Power and Light team

NP&L Update: Ive's Park Concert Series and Visit from Assemblyman Billy Jones

NP&L Update: Ive's Park Concert Series and Visit from Assemblyman Billy Jones

Northern Power & Light had the pleasure of giving State Assemblyman Billy Jones a tour of the Azure Mountain Power hydro station in St. Regis Falls to share how NP&L enables customers to directly support renewable energy and buy local.

Everett and Emmett Smith and Matt Foley

Creating Cleaner Energy Close to Home

Creating Cleaner Energy Close to Home

Adirondack Park residents are surrounded by hydropower facilities that generate four times more power than all of the residents and businesses inside the Park can possibly use. But almost none of it is available for purchase by local consumers...

Sunita Halasz

Peter Henry:
Firework Maker

Peter Henry:
Firework Maker

He who hath smelt the smoke, is ne’er again free

Or so the adage goes, explains Peter Henry, before putting it a bit more directly, “Once you smell that smell of gunpowder, you are hooked..."