Governor Cuomo is driving broader adoption of
energy efficiency, renewables and
other clean technologies at institutions of higher learning to provide cost savings and reduce our carbon footprint.»
The 2007 agreement had required AEP to install flue gas desulfurization (FGD)
technology at the plant — a more expensive
technology that results in greater pollution reductions — but Sierra Club and the
other parties agreed to the DSI
technology in return for an earlier installation date, the
other coal plant retirements, and
clean energy investments.