Information on Rockland Energy Production and Consumption

An average household in New York consumes just under 6000 kilowatt hours (kWh) per year. While residential consumption is only a portion of overall electricity use, a turbine generating one megawatt of electricity would power 1500 homes. According to the 2000 census, Nyack has 3188 households.

The principal component to wind project viability is the average wind speed at prospective turbine sites. Wind energy output tends to increase cubically to average wind speed so small changes in wind speed equate to large increases in output.

To explore some local areas with favorable wind conditions check out this website:
http://www.windexplorer.com/NewYork/NewYork.htm

The Wind Resource Explorer (WRE) was developed by AWS Truewind, LLC to facilitate the distribution and investigation of wind resource information to a large audience over the Internet.