Buffalo Billion is a New York state government project led by Governor Andrew Cuomo, that features a project in the program, a $750 million solar panel factory, headquartered where?
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Buffalo Billion Buffalo Billion is a New York state government project led by Governor Andrew Cuomo that aims to invest $1 billion in the Buffalo, New York area economy. The project uses a combination of state grants and tax breaks to spur economic development. Governor Cuomo first announced the program in his 2012 "State of the State" address. The program is modeled on a similar program implemented in the Albany, New York area. A key project in the program is a $750 million SolarCity solar panel factory.
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SolarCity SolarCity Corporation is a subsidiary of Tesla, Inc. that specializes in solar energy services and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.
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Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area The Buffalo-Niagara Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area is a metropolitan area, designated by the United States Census Bureau, encompassing two counties – Erie and Niagara – in Western New York, with a population, as of the 2010 census, of 1,135,509 inhabitants. It is the second-largest metropolitan area in the state of New York, centering on the urbanized area of Buffalo.
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New York State Executive Mansion The New York State Executive Mansion is the official residence of the Governor of New York. Located at 138 Eagle Street in Albany, New York, it has housed 31 governors and their families. The Italianate building was constructed in 1856 as a banker's private home. Samuel Tilden became the first governor to reside in the house in 1875, and the state purchased it two years later.
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BAM Energy Group BAM Energy Group (formerly BAM Solar Power) is a photovoltaic system systems installer based in Miami, Florida. The company provides design, installation, monitoring and maintenance services for solar energy.
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Norsk Hydro Norsk Hydro ASA (often referred to as just "Hydro") is a Norwegian aluminium and renewable energy company, headquartered in Oslo. As of 2016, Hydro is one of the largest aluminium companies worldwide. It has operations in some 50 countries around the world and is active on all continents. The Norwegian state owns 43.8% of the company through the Ministry of Trade and Industry. A further 6.5% is owned by Folketrygdfond, which administers the Government Pension Fund of Norway. Norsk Hydro employs approximately 12,500 people. Svein Richard Brandtzæg has been the CEO since 2009.
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Sun National Bank Sun National Bank is the primary subsidiary of Sun Bancorp, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNBC), a $2.3 billion asset bank holding company headquartered in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. The Bank serves consumers and businesses through more than 30 branch locations in New Jersey, as well as commercial lending offices in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York. Sun National Bank is an Equal Housing Lender and its deposits are insured up to the legal maximum by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). In 2015, the Bank announced a major rebrand initiative for Sun National Bank, as well as its financial planning subsidiary, Prosperis Financial Solutions.
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Letsatsi Solar Park The Letsatsi Solar Park is a 75-megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic power station in Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa. The solar park uses 277,632 conventional, multicrystalline silicon PV solar panels and went fully on line in May 2014. Its annual generation will be about 150 gigawatt-hours, enough to supply electricity for about 50,000 to 60,000 homes, while reducing the use of pollution-generating fossil fuels. The Letsatsi Solar Park cost $487 million and is operated by the Letsatsi Solar Energy Ltd., which plans to operate the solar park for at least 20 years.
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Andrew Perlman Andrew Perlman (born June 19, 1975) is an American entrepreneur who has co-founded nine venture-backed companies in the telecom, high-tech, pharmaceuticals, energy, water, and biotechnology industries. He is currently General Partner of GreatPoint Ventures, and Chairman and CEO of GreatPoint Energy, a company based in Chicago, Illinois which develops technology to produce clean natural gas from coal. Perlman has been featured on the MIT Technology Review’s list of the world's top 35 innovators under the age of 35
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New York State Democratic Committee The New York State Democratic Committee is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the state of New York. Its headquarters are in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, and it has an office in Albany.
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Applied Solar Applied Solar Inc. is a company developing solar energy products and energy management applications—especially with photovoltaics for buildings. The company is located in California.
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Scornicești Solar Park Scornicești Solar Park, a large thin-film photovoltaic (PV) power system, is built on a 5 ha plot of land near the Scornicești commune in Romania. The power plant is a 1-megawatt solar power system using 4176 240 Wp panels of state-of-the-art thin film technology, and was completed in December 2011. The solar park is expected to supply 1,300 MWh of electricity per year. Construction began in September 2011 and was completed in December of the same year.
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Buffalo CarShare Buffalo CarShare was a non-profit carsharing organization located in Buffalo, New York. The establishment of this organization began in the summer of 2008 and used to serve the city of Buffalo and its surroundings. Their mission statement was “We are a community-driven organization that advances affordable and environmentally friendly transportation."
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Convia Convia, Inc., based in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, is an American manufacturer of components which provide an integrated energy management platform that allows for the control and metering of lighting, plug-loads and HVAC. It is notable as one of the first companies to deliver and control power while at the same time monitoring energy and adapting its use in real-time.
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Yingli Yingli (), formally Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited ( - . Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (NYSE: YGE), known as "Yingli Solar," is one of the world's leading solar panel manufacturers. Yingli Green Energy's manufacturing covers the photovoltaic value chain from ingot casting and wafering through solar cell production and solar panel assembly. Yingli's photovoltaic module capacity is 4 GWs.
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Baseball Factory Baseball Factory, Inc. is a United States company specializing in player development and college placement of high school baseball players. The company is headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, approximately 20 miles southwest of Baltimore. Over six hundred events, across all 50 states, are hosted by Baseball Factory throughout the year, ranging from national tryouts to camps, tournaments and showcases. As of 2017, Baseball Factory has helped over 100,000 baseball players compete at the college level, garnering more than $1 billion in scholarships.
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Siva Power Siva Power, Inc. is an American solar power company that develops thin-film technology. The company designs and manufactures copper indium gallium deselenide (CIGS) photovoltaics and is the recipient of a US Department of Energy SunShot Initiative award for manufacturing technology and was the only thin-film solar module manufacturer awarded in its category. Siva Power is based in San Jose, California and is led by Bruce Sohn as CEO and Brad Mattson as Chairman.
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Buffalo Airfield Buffalo Airfield (FAA LID: 9G0) is a privately owned, public use airport located six nautical miles (7 mi, 11 km) southeast of the central business district of Buffalo, in Erie County, New York, United States. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a "reliever airport".
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Centinela Solar Energy Project The Centinela Solar Energy Project is a 170 megawatt (MW) photovoltaic power plant located on 2067 acre of previously disturbed private land southwest of El Centro, California. The project would support at least 235 jobs, generate more than $30 million in tax revenue over the life of the project, and deliver enough electricity to power about 82,500 homes. Imperial County gave a green-light to the solar power plant on December 27, 2011, and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar approved the right-of-way for 19 acres for the connecting power line on public land.
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California Flats Solar Project The California Flats Solar Project is a 280 megawatt (MW) photovoltaic power station under construction in the Cholame Hills area of southeastern Monterey County, California, near the San Luis Obispo, Kings, and Fresno County borders in Central California.
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Newark Energy Center The Newark Energy Center is a 655-megawatt gas fired power plant in Newark, New Jersey. Approved in 2011, with construction beginning in 2012 it began commercial operations in May 2015. It is situated on a 23 acre brownfield east of Doremus Avenue next to a Hess oil terminal on the Passaic River. It was originally built as a joint venture between Hess Corporation and Energy Investors Fund, and it was taken over the latter in 2014.
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Economy of New York City The economy of New York City encompasses the largest municipal as well as regional economy in the United States. Anchored by Wall Street, in Lower Manhattan, New York City has been characterized as the world's premier financial center, and is home to the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, the world's largest stock exchanges by market capitalization and trading activity. In 2012, the New York City Metropolitan Statistical Area generated a gross metropolitan product (GMP) of over US$1.33 trillion, while the Combined Statistical Area produced a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion, both ranking first nationally by a wide margin and being roughly equivalent to the GDP of South Korea. The city's economy accounts for the majority of the economic activity in the states of New York and New Jersey.