Community Choice Aggregation - CCA - for the East End

Community Choice Aggregation, or CCA, is an alternative to the investor owned utility energy supply system in which local municipalities can aggregate the buying power of individual customers within their borders, in order to secure alternative energy supply contracts.

The main goals of CCAs have been to either lower costs for consumers or to allow consumers greater control of their energy mix, mainly by offering "greener" generation portfolios than local utilities. 

A New York State law enables localities to establish CCA plans.  The first such program was initiated in 2015. in Westchester County. 

We spoke with Janice Scherer of Southampton Town’s long range planning department about the Town’s interest in establishing a CCA program.

Also we spoke with Gordian Raacke of Renewable Energy Long Island to get his take on the CCA program. 

Listen here:

Community Choice Aggregation - CCA - for the East End

Community Choice Aggregation, or CCA, is an alternative to the investor owned utility energy supply system in which local municipalities can aggregate the buying power of individual customers within their borders, in order to secure alternative energy supply contracts.

The main goals of CCAs have been to either lower costs for consumers or to allow consumers greater control of their energy mix, mainly by offering "greener" generation portfolios than local utilities. 

A New York State law enables localities to establish CCA plans.  The first such program was initiated in 2015. in Westchester County. 

We spoke with Janice Scherer of Southampton Town’s long range planning department about the Town’s interest in establishing a CCA program.

Also we spoke with Gordian Raacke of Renewable Energy Long Island to get his take on the CCA program. 

Listen here:

Edwina von Gal - managing a woodland environment

Landscape designer Edwina von Gal, lives in Springs - East Hampton. Recently Edwina took host Francesca Rheannon on a tour of her property on the banks of Accobonac Creek.

Edwina says the land there is her laboratory for finding how to manage a woodland environment and how to control invasive species and ticks. 

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Edwina von Gal - managing a woodland environment

Landscape designer Edwina von Gal, lives in Springs - East Hampton. Recently Edwina took host Francesca Rheannon on a tour of her property on the banks of Accobonac Creek.

Edwina says the land there is her laboratory for finding how to manage a woodland environment and how to control invasive species and ticks. 

listen here

Ticks and tick bourne diseases

Ticks and the diseases they cause were on the minds of East Enders again this summer.

Tamson Yeh is a Turf and Land Management specialist with the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County in Riverhead.

Francesca Rheannon talks with Dr. Yeh about ticks, their animal carriers, associated diseases and how we can protect against them.

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Tamson Yeh can be reached at tsy3@cornell.edu