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 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 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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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...
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..."
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- Sunita: EV Pioneer, Homeschooler
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