NYPAs long standing relationship with Municipal Electric Utilities and Rural 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 who own and operate distribution systems serving ~183K end-use customers.  Key associations for these customers are the Municipal Electric Utilities Association (MEUA) and NY Association of Public Power (NYAPP)

These customers can avail themselves of grant services and the following programs:

• Industrial Economic Development Program (IEDP) offers low-cost power to qualified municipal and rural electric cooperative systems, serviced by NYPA, for allocation to new or expanding businesses.

• Municipal Alternative Vehicle Program (MAP) provides municipal and electric cooperatives with 36-month, 0% interest financing for the purchase of alternative drive, hybrid, or electric vehicles in addition to battery charging equipment.

• Tree Power Program facilitates orders of native trees selected especially for NYPAs customers. 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 that purchase trees through the program.  

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 encompass an evaluation of the municipal electric utility's infrastructure and identify opportunities for electrification and an economic analysis for 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

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