Roosevelt Island Interview With Verdant Power President Trey Taylor As Next Generation East River Turbine Installed - Plans To Create A Virtual Power Plant On Roosevelt Island Using Wind, Solar, Turbine and Bio Energy

Reported on August 30 that:

... Verdant Power installed its latest prototype water turbine in East River next to Roosevelt Island Gristedes Supermarket yesterday afternoon. The new turbine will undergo tests for the next two weeks....

Image of Verdant Power Water Turbine Being Installed On Roosevelt Island August 29

As the water turbine was being installed, I spoke with Verdant Power President Trey Taylor. Mr. Taylor explained that the energy produced from the Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy Project (RITE) when fully built out (1 Megawatt of Power) is intended for Roosevelt Island uses as a form of distributed generation in a demonstration of decentralized power. According to Mr. Taylor, previous testing of RITE brought energy to the Gristedes Supermarket and the intent in the future is to bring energy to the new Cornell Campus as well as Roosevelt Island buildings.

You Tube Video of Interview With Verdant Power Trey Tower on Roosevelt Island

Mr. Taylor also talked about ultimately creating a Roosevelt Island Virtual Power Plant using solar, wind, bio and tidal energy creating our own sustainable energy community and an example for the entire world.

You Tube Video of Interview With Verdant Power President Trey Taylor On Roosevelt Island

Wow - I agree with Mr. Taylor, that would be pretty cool.

Here's the installation of the turbine into the East River on August 29.

You Tube Video of Verdant Water Turbine Being Installed In East River

More on the decentralization of energy from this April 2012 article in The Atlantic and this previous post on Roosevelt Island energy issues.