Answers About Alternative Energy in New York City

clipped from cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com Following is a first set of answers from Carol E. Murphy, who is taking questions from City Room readers about alternative energy choices for consumers, what New York City is doing to decrease its reliance on fossil fuels and how city dwellers can decrease their “carbon footprint.” Readers are invited to submit additional questions using the comment form below. Is New York doing enough to promote solar? Incentives, research, tax breaks? New York is playing catch up with the rest of the nation when it comes to investment in and policies promoting solar energy. Gov. David A. Paterson’s Renewable Energy Task Force calls for a comprehensive program for solar photovoltaic and solar thermal (heating water for domestic use and space heating) with a goal of 100 megawatts of installed solar PV systems and 1,100 solar thermal systems across New York by 2011. New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. , Audubon Ask About Alternative Energy