The renewable electricity offered in this program is:
44% Hydro
29% Biomass
27% Wind Power


Hydropower facilities in the United States can generate enough power to supply 28 million households with electricity, the equivalent of nearly 500 million barrels of oil. Mechanical energy is derived by directing, harnessing, or channeling moving water. The amount of available energy in moving water is determined from its flow or fall. Hydropower produces no waste products, and it does not pollute the water or the air.

The Biomass energy in this program is landfill methane fired electricity. Landfill fired electricity takes methane, an unavoidable byproduct of landfill decomposition and burns it in a turbine to generate electricity. This takes the methane, a powerful greenhouse gas 21 times more potent than CO2, and converts it into Carbon Dioxide. Each unit of methane burned removes the equivalent of 20 units of CO2 out of the environment. At the same time, each unit of electricity created from landfill methane replaces a unit of fossil fueled electricity and the CO2 that would have been created by that fossil fueled energy.

The Wind Power is generated at a commercial Wind Farm in New York State (a new wind facility placed into service after January 1, 2000).


The way this program works, you are still using the utilities wires and the utility is still providing emergency service and meter read services (and in fact we are paying the utility to bill you). If you sign on to the renewable program, for every unit of electricity you use, the Cooperative is required to purchase that number of renewable units and place them into the utilities system. The “green electrons” don’t necessarily go directly to your house. However, if you or someone else is not buying them, there is no reason for the Cooperative to buy them and no reason for the generators to produce them. The New York State Public Service Commission will audit the total amount of renewable energy that our members bought and the Cooperative purchased and the renewable generators placed into the utilities system to make sure we are all getting the renewable power that we are paying for.

By casting your “consumer vote” in support of renewable energy, you will be:
• creating a market demand for cleaner energy
• encouraging developers to build more renewable generation facilities in New York State.

The Energy Cooperative of New York purchases
all of our renewable energy from distributors located in New York State.