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EDR congratulates the U.S. Forest Service and Avangrid Renewables on the achievement of a significant milestone.  Deerfield Wind Farm began commercial operation on December 29, 2017 – and it is the first wind farm on U.S. Forest Service lands nationwide!  Located in Bennington County in southern Vermont, the project includes 15 wind turbines that are […]

With the New Year officially underway, EDR would like to thank all our staff for their hard work and contributions in 2017 and celebrate the following well-deserved promotions! Carolyne Bean to Managing Engineer Steve Breitzka to Senior Managing Landscape Architect Andrew Britton to Senior Managing Landscape Architect/Branch Manager Justin Chiera to Senior Project Engineer Lindsay Dressel […]

Gordon Perkins spoke last week at the Southern New England Offshore Wind Energy Science Forum at The University of Rhode Island.  Gordon spoke about research and advancements made in the field of visual impact assessment since the construction of America’s first offshore windfarm, The Block Island Wind Farm.  It was a great opportunity for stakeholders, […]

EDR is excited to announce the filing of the Baron Wind Energy Facility Application for a Certificate of Environmental Compatibility and Public Need.  The Application was prepared in accordance with Article 10 of the New York State Public Service Law and was filed with the New York State Board on Electric Generation Siting and the […]

Kim Phan successfully defended her Masters Thesis “Toward a New Erie Boulevard East in Syracuse and Dewitt, New York: Bus Rapid Transit and Urban Forestry in a Time of Climate Challenge” on November 16, 2017.  Kim began graduate school part-time in the fall of 2014 at SUNY-ESF with an interest in making green space and […]

Emily Stephan successfully defended her PhD dissertation, “Development of a Parsimonious Urban Landscape Nutrient Model using Representations of Terrestrial Denitrification Control”, on November 2, 2017. Since beginning graduate school in 2012 at SUNY-ESF, Emily has worked with the US Forest Service on i-Tree Hydro (http://www.itreetools.org/), with the goal of bringing freely accessible hydrology models to […]

The Fall 2017 issue of Cornell University’s Historic Preservation Planning Alumni (HPPA) Newsletter features a great profile of three key members of EDR’s Cultural Resources team:  Grant Johnson (Class of 2010), Susan Lawson (Class of 2003), and Andrew Roblee (Class of 2017) all completed Master of Arts degrees in Historic Preservation Planning at Cornell (Go […]

EDR congratulates Avangrid Renewables and Community Energy Solar on the completion of the Preliminary Scoping Statement (PSS) for the Mohawk Solar project, which was submitted to the Department of Public Service (DPS) on October 18, 2017. Mohawk Solar is a proposed 90-megawatt (MW) solar energy project located in the Towns of Canajoharie and Minden in […]