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Twenty winters on the ridge above Tug Hill
Since June 2006, 195 turbines have stood on the Tug Hill Plateau in Lewis County, turning the cold lake wind into roughly 322 megawatts of electricity. Our first story looks back at twenty seasons of snow, service roads, and steady output from one of the oldest large wind farms in the East.
Tug Hill is not a gentle place. The plateau east of Lake Ontario catches some of the heaviest snow in the state, on the order of two hundred inches in a hard winter, and it holds that snow for months. It is also one of the windiest stretches of ground in New York, which is why the ridge has been generating power for two decades while newer projects, on paper at least, keep trying to catch up with it.
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One Year, Three Flows
Wind Hydro Solar
How the seasons shape upstate clean power: gusty wind in the cold months, steady hydro that rises with the spring runoff, and solar that peaks at midsummer. These curves show the typical pattern, not real measurements.
Stories
[ 02 ] North
The Niagara drum
The New York Power Authority's Robert Moses plant has run since 1961. A story on the gorge, the grid, and what relicensing means for the state's oldest clean workhorse. Coming soon.
[ 03 ] West
Dairy-farm arrays
Community solar leases on working farmland keep barns paid for and herds in hay. A story from the flat ground along Route 20. Coming soon.
[ 04 ] How We Work
How we put these stories together
Original illustrations, charts explained in plain language, and no number we cannot point to a source for.
How We Work
New York Clean Energy is a small independent publication about clean power in upstate New York. We read the public record, the project filings, siting board orders, and operator reports, and we write up what actually matters for the people who live near these projects. Where a number is uncertain, we say so on the page.
We stick to what we can verify: projects that are built, permitted, or formally proposed, and agencies and operators that publish what they do. We do not invent statistics, and every story lists its sources.
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