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Alliance is planning to build battery storage facilities in New York, California, and Colorado. California is taking the lead in finding new sources of clean energy and encouraging energy storage deployment, and with the introduction of our renewable energy affiliate Clarion Energy, we stand ready to assist in that endeavor. Read more about Alliance’s commitment to the research and development of sustainable, renewable energy resources at Energy Research.

We are in the process of modernizing three of our power plants in New York and Colorado as part of a continuous effort to improve the efficiency and lower the emissions at our facilities. We are adding some "green" with utility storage batteries and solar at Hillburn, Shoemaker, and Greeley, and repowering Hillburn and Shoemaker with GE LM6000 aeroderivative gas turbines using zero sulfur clean burning natural gas.

MONGAUP VALLEY - Two years of drained water, resources and hopes ended triumphantly on Saturday, when Alliance Energy Renewables reopened public access to the Swinging Bridge Reservoir. Sullivan County's largest public boating lake had been closed since May 2005 while engineers repaired a large sinkhole in the reservoir's dam. In the interim, Alliance bought the property from a bankrupt Mirant (plus the Toronto, Mongaup Falls and Rio reservoirs) and set about accelerating the timetable.

It's taken more than two years, but starting Saturday people will once again be allowed to boat and swim in the Swinging Bridge Reservoir in Mongaup Valley. The announcement comes from Alliance Energy, which bought the reservoir, dam and its hydroelectric plant in May from Mirant. The nine-mile-long reservoir is the largest lake in Sullivan County, aside from the New York City reservoirs, and it's one of two motorboat lakes in the county.

MONGAUP VALLEY - Its purchase of Mirant NY-Gen's properties isn't complete yet, but Alliance Energy Renewables has promised to refill the Swinging Bridge Reservoir "to the levels prior to the dam repair." That comes with three caveats that it is safe to do so, that Mirant itself won't have already completed the refill, and that Mother Nature ultimately determines the reservoir's level. "Alliance recognizes the critical recreational and economic value of the reservoir to the community," explained Alliance spokesperson Jane Rubinstein.