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Listen to Walter Alvarado Vice President of System and Transmission Operations share Con Edison's plan for building three new transmission lines. The project will boost the use of renewable energy in the region when it comes on line and reduce the need for old fossil fuel peaker plants.

Hear how Con Edison is leading the way energy companies are thinking about climate change—designing the grid of the future to improve resiliency and sustainability. Con Edison’s manager of strategic planning, Charles Viemeister and @MichaelGerrard, founder and director of Columbia Law’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law highlight the plans.

Con Edison and its partners Lion Electric and Posi-Plus are developing the country's first all-electric utility bucket truck capable of performing the full range of work required. This class 8 truck will be able to put in a full day's work, lift a line worker 60 feet into the air, travel 130 miles and top off its batteries in about eight hours. It is expected to be on the road in 2022.

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February is Black History Month. But between February 2020 and February 2021, the experience has been marked by unprecedented events. Listen to a frank discussion in Con Edison’s podcast “Plugged In” about the meaning and impact of Black History Month with company employees Lance Becca, Vice President for Staten Island Electric Operations, Christianna Ambo-Jones, a manager for Energy Efficiency, and Nikolai Wolfe, an attorney in the Law Department.

Manhattan's East River Tidal project is changing water currents to electrical currents and unlocking the potential for New York's newest renewable energy technology. It's predictable, reliable, and sustainable and now Manhattan Islanders will be using electricity generated by this project to help meet New York's clean energy goals. Find out more about this fascinating project and what's next in tidal energy generation on part two of "Current Thought" with Verdant Power, Inc.'s Dean Corren.

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Matt Ketschke the new president of Con Edison of New York, and the new senior vice president of customer energy solutions, Lenny Singh talk about energy trends in 2021.

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Tidal energy is renewable energy harnessed by the natural rise and fall of ocean tides using technologies like turbines to generate electricity. It’s not widely used but can be more predictable than the sun and wind. Con Edison engineers in research and development are exploring its reliability and uses. Learn more in this episode of “Current Thought" and on our website: https://bit.ly/3rlq2Qm.

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Move over rooftop solar panels, vertical solar farms are coming! With more than 10 million windows in Manhattan alone, Con Edison is keeping close tabs on the technology that can change a window pane into a solar energy generator, creating a new energy source without altering New York’s spectacular skyline. Learn more in this episode of our new podcast, “Current Thought."

Con Edison’s Bobby Kennedy, his team and the University of Albany are taking a hyper-local look at New York City weather. With 17 newly installed weather stations that measure wind, rain, snow, air and even river temperatures, providing hyper local data to find the so-called “ground truth.” With that data, trends can be better identified to drive decisions on everything from climate change to storm hardening the grid. Learn more in this episode of our new podcast, “Current Thought.”