NYPA provides low-cost hydropower and an array of energy efficiency services to Municipal Electric Utilities and Rural Electric Cooperative customers located in New York State
NYPA's long-standing relationship with Municipal Electric Utilities and Rural Electric Cooperative customers began with the Niagara Power Project in 1961, when approximately 765 megawatts (MW) of low-cost Niagara hydropower were legislatively mandated for their use.
Municipal and Rural Cooperative customers include 47 municipal electric utilities and 4 rural electric cooperatives that own and operate distribution systems serving approximately 183,000 end-use customers. Key associations for these customers are the Municipal Electric Utilities Association (MEUA) and New York Association of Public Power (NYAPP).
These customers can take advantage of the following programs:
- grant services NYPA can help simplify and prioritize program choices and identify the programs that best meet your needs. Our team can help strengthen your application with a compelling project narrative that better positions your submission in a competitive program environment.
- Industrial Economic Development Program (IEDP) offers low-cost power to qualified municipal and rural electric cooperative systems served by NYPA for allocation to new or expanding businesses.
- Municipal Alternative Vehicle Program (MAV) provides municipal and electric cooperatives with 36-month, 0% interest financing for the purchase of alternative-drive, hybrid, or electric vehicles as well as to battery-charging equipment.
- Tree Power Program facilitates orders of native trees selected specifically for NYPA's customers. These trees improve building energy efficiency by providing shade, reducing stormwater flooding by intercepting rainfall, and providing a habitat for native pollinators. The program offers a tree match for customers who purchase trees through the program. Economically disadvantaged areas receive an additional incentive of buy 1 tree, get 2 trees free.
NYPA, as a trusted advisor and partner, engaged with the Town of Sherburne to conduct an electrification assessment to evaluate the municipal electric utility's infrastructure, focusing on the integration of renewable and storage solutions. This assessment will include an evaluation of the utility's infrastructure and identify opportunities for electrification and an economic analysis of selected electrification residential, commercial (including federal buildings) and industrial technologies.
Contact us to learn more about NYPA’s municipal electric utilities and rural electric cooperative energy efficiency services.
If your utility is a municipal electric utility or rural electric cooperative customer of NYPA, and you have received a discontinuance of service notice, you can obtain information or assistance about that discontinuation notice here.
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