City's biggest wind power user earns energy award.ConEdison Solutions, one of America's leading energy services companies, today announced that Chelsea Piers Chelsea Piers, officially Chelsea Piers Sports & Entertainment Complex, is a series of sports and entertainment buildings constructed on four adjoining piers on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. in Manhattan--the country's largest sports and entertainment complex--now ranks as New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City's largest commercial customer using 100% wind power. Chelsea Piers makes an annual purchase of clean and renewable wind energy in an amount equal to the entire electricity usage of its 28-acre, one-million-square-foot property through ConEdison Solutions' "Green Power" electricity supply offering. In the last year, Chelsea Piers' electricity usage was approximately 22 million kilowatt-hours. The Chelsea Piers purchase alone--the largest among ConEdison Solutions' 18,000 "Green Power" customers in the greater New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. area--enhances the environment by offsetting the generation of approximately 13,600 metric tons of electricity-related greenhouse gas greenhouse gas n. Any of the atmospheric gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect. greenhouse gas emissions (CO2), a quantity equal to taking an estimated 2,850 cars off the road or planting 12,250 acres of trees. ConEdison Solutions obtains the 100% wind-power certificates from Community Energy, Inc., a leading marketer and developer of pollution-free, wind-generated electricity. The wind-generated renewable energy credits (RECs) are generated by wind farms around the country. Wind is the world's fastest-growing renewable energy source. Jorge J. Lopez, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of ConEdison Solutions, Brent Alderfer, president and CEO of Community Energy, Inc., and New York City Council The New York City Council is the lawmaking body of the City of New York. It comprises 51 members from 51 council districts throughout the five boroughs. The Council serves as balance of power against the mayor in a "strong" mayor-council government model. Speaker Christine C. Quinn Christine Callaghan Quinn (b. 25 July 1966 in Glen Cove, New York) is a Democratic politician from New York City who has served for six years on the New York City Council. She is the third speaker of the City Council, which is considered the second most powerful position in city joined Chelsea Piers co-founder David A. Tewksbury to make the announcement at a ceremony honoring twenty of the New York City area's "Green Pioneers" at the sports complex on the Hudson River waterfront. "Green Pioneers" are businesses and households who have been among the first in the region to tap renewable power for their energy supplies. Standing by a rotating, twelve-foot-tall windmill, event participants staged a symbolic "apple-lighting" ceremony by throwing a switch that illuminated a glowing, five-foot-wide "Green Apple." "For more than a decade, ConEdison Solutions has provided clean and renewable 'Green Power' to businesses and households across the New York City area," said Lopez. "By choosing renewable power, energy users like Chelsea Piers protect the environment, promote conservation, and build a more sustainable future. Today we honor the 'Green Pioneers' who are taking steps to make our world cleaner and greener." In addition to its wind purchase, the Chelsea Piers "green" initiatives include reduced energy and water consumption, use of healthful health·ful adj. 1. Conducive to good health; salutary. 2. Healthy. health  ful·ness n. and sustainable indoor and outdoor
materials, supply chain practices that ensure relationships with
eco-friendly partners and vendors, and recycling strategies that
minimize the carbon footprint of the sports and entertainment complex.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In addition to Chelsea Piers, ConEdison Solutions recognized the following entities as "Green Pioneers" for their use of renewable power: Sherwood Equities, The New 42nd Street, John Masters Organics, the U.S. General Services Administration The General Services Administration (GSA) was established by section 101 of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C.A. § 751). The GSA sets policy for and manages government property and records. , O'Melveny & Myers LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol , The City Bakery, MercyCorps, Swing Hair Salon and Ohm Spa in Manhattan; Brooklyn Brewery, Barcade/The Gutter, Brooklyn Industries, Brooklyn Bowl, and Charles and Cathy Alexander in Brooklyn; Anheuser-Busch in the Bronx; Community Housing Innovations of White Plains; Rose Press in Mount Vernon; Wyndham Worldwide of New Jersey; and the Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Company. Charles and Cathy Alexander, who live in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood, received special recognition for being among the very first residential customers in New York City to purchase "green" power. They signed up for the ConEdison Solutions program in 1998, shortly after the program's launch. |
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