NYSERDA History
In 1995, when this office was closed NYSERDA took on critical energy efficiency, energy assessments, energy planning, and policy analysis functions.
What is the State Energy Office or Energy Office?
This structure has a crown with 7 spikes each representing one of the seven continents of the world indicating the universal concept of liberty?
What is the Statue of Liberty or Lady Liberty?
The world's first true power plant generating electricity was built by Thomas Edison's Edison Electric Illuminating Company and began operating in September 1882. Known as the Pearl Street Station it was located in this New York State city.
What is Manhattan or New York City?
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At least this many different languages are spoken in New York City making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world.
(A) 50
(B) 200
(C) 800
(D) Over 1,000
(C) 800
New York State took pioneering steps to address greenhouse gas emissions related to electric generation by becoming a charter member of a cooperative effort by nine Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) in what year?
What is 2008?
New York City is comprised of 5 boroughs. Name the two that are islands comprised entirely of that borough.
What are Manhattan and Staten Island?
Brooklyn and Queens are geographically part of Long Island and Bronx is attached to the US mainland.
While it was a French physicist who discovered the underlying process in 1839, it wasn’t until 1883 when New York inventor Charles Fritts created the first working system of this renewable energy technology achieving an energy conversion rate of 1 to 2 percent. Today, most of these systems have an energy conversion rate of 15 to 20 percent.
What is Solar or PV?
Manhattan is home to the largest concentration of this ethnic group in the Western Hemisphere with over 150,000 residents in a 2 square mile area.
What are Chinese?
NYSERDA was created as a public benefit corporation in 1975 through the reconstitution what Authority?
What is the New York State Atomic and Space Development Authority?
Established in 1928, this NYS airport is the oldest municipal airport in the United States.
What is Albany International Airport?
While steam powered and gasoline powered vehicles existed by 1900, they required a lot of manual effort to drive and were noisy with unpleasant exhaust. By contrast, electric vehicles were quiet and safer. In 1914, this auto manufacturer partnered with Thomas Edison to explore options for a low-cost electric car.
Who is Henry Ford or Ford.
This NYS county is the most ethnically diverse county in the United States thanks to its large population.
What is Queens county?
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Since 2020, NYSERDA’s full time staff has grown by what percent?
(A) 5%
(B) 14%
(C) 20%
(D) 25%
B. From mid-2020 to mid-2023, a 14% increase (351 to 401 FTE).
Enacted as part of the FY 2024 budget, New York’s All-Electric Building Act will require most new buildings in New York to use electric heat and appliances beginning in 2026 for buildings up to 8 stories and 2029 for buildings higher than 8 stories. Back in 1905, Harry Hillman of General Electric built an all-electric home in a suburb of this City.
What is Schenectady?
Known as the house without a kitchen chimney this demonstration home proved that electricity could power all the energy requirements of houses. Hillman was head of the Electronic Heating Department at GE at the time.
In 1899, 90% of New York City’s taxis were electric vehicles (more than 60 electric taxis). Under a new rule enacted in 2023, New York City's ride share companies will need to dispatch 100 percent of their trips to either zero-emission vehicles or wheelchair accessible vehicles by this year.
What is 2030?
Human beings have been present in New York State since the end of the last ice age, approximately 12,000 years ago. This is the number of State recognized first or tribal nations in New York.
What is 9?
Cayuga Nation, Oneida Indian Nation, Onondaga Nation, Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, Seneca Nation of Indians (Allegany Reservation and Cattaraugus Reservation), Shinnecock Indian Nation, Tonawanda Seneca Nation, Tuscarora Nation, and Unkechaug Indian Nation.
On behalf of the state of New York, NYSERDA holds title to the Western New York Nuclear Service Center, a 3,300-acre parcel near West Valley, approximately 35 miles south of Buffalo. The nation’s only commercial spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant operated at this site from 1966 to 1972 before Congress passed legislation in this year which began the federal/state cleanup project that continues today.
What is 1980?
New York attained statehood on July 26, 1788, becoming the # (which numbered) state to attain statehood?
What is 11th?
A combination of hydropower and geothermal power provides almost 100% of this country's electricity production. In fact, geothermal power heats 9 out of 10 homes.
What is Iceland?
Other First Nations were located within New York State in the past and still maintain ties to the area. These are considered federally recognized nations and there are this many with ties to New York State.
What is 4?
Cayuga Seneca Nation (Oklahoma), Delaware Nation (Oklahoma), Delaware Tribe of Indians (Oklahoma), and Stockbridge-Munsee Band of the Mohican Nation of Wisconsin.