Solar companies offer rooftop panels at wildly different prices, depending on where they're being installed and the kind of incentives available. Here's how much installers say customers in different states would pay for a 5-kilowatt solar system. _New Jersey: $2,625. The original $37,500 sticker price drops after applying ...

In early December I moderated a panel discussion at Columbia University titled "Energy Efficiency: What Really Works." The panel featured five terrific experts on this issue: Bridgett Neely, Vice President of Energy Efficiency at New York City's Economic Development Corporation; Lloyd Kass, Director of the Energy Department at the New York City Housing Authority; Jay Bhalla, President of Willdan ...

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) will help pay for nine projects aimed at evaluating and improving biomass-fired heating equipment. The projects, valued at more than $2.5 million, will compare energy and emissions performance for wood-burning equipment, including residential and commercial wood boilers, pellet stoves, wood stoves, and emerging grass-pellet technologies. The NYSERDA-funded studies will ...

Kadant AES (Queensbury, NY), a division of Kadant Inc., has introduced a system described by the company as a major advance in pump control technology for tube-bending applications. By employing mathematical algorithms, the UNiGY PhD (Pumpmodeling hydraulic Drive) technology reduces energy consumption, while at the same time reportedly improving process performance, including system monitoring and diagnostics for both new and ...