Rochester Beacon (https://rochesterbeacon.com/2023/10/page/2/)
The Ontario battery recycler, which received a $375 million loan commitment from the U.S. Department of Energy earlier this year, plans to conduct a review of the project’s scope and budget.
The deal to buy Philadelphia’s SUMO Heavy brings deep e-commerce knowledge to Rochester-based ITX.
Left-Handed 2nd Baseman’s newest album is experimental, collaborative, and as lyrically deep as always.
The city of Rochester is starting the design phase of the Inner Loop North Transformation Project. The project will fill in a 1.5-mile stretch of the expressway, reconnecting downtown Rochester with the Public Market and the city’s Brown Square, High Falls, Upper Falls and Marketview Heights neighborhoods, and providing land for redevelopment.
The agreement comes three days before the nurses, the first to successfully organize a union in Rochester, planned a five-day strike.
The County of Monroe Industrial Development Agency approved $63.4 million in tax incentives for the Coca-Cola subsidiary’s planned $660 million milk production facility on Tebor Road in Webster.
The Rochester Area School Health Plan, encompassing all of Monroe County’s 17 school districts and two BOCES organizations, will move its retiree health plan from Excellus to Aetna.
At the five-year mark, the Rochester Beacon continues to grow by staying sharply focused on its nonprofit mission. We’d like to thank all who have made it possible.
Singer-songwriter John McCutcheon returns to the Rochester area Thursday fresh off recording a collaboration album with Tom Paxton that blends political views with humor.
I worked in corporate planning at Niagara Mohawk (now National Grid NY) during the 1980s and 1990s, when the industry restructuring you describe so well began to take hold. (“Exploring a community utility, Rochester Beacon, Sept. 28, 2023.) That was what I’ll call a second wave of regulatory change in the utility industry—certainly well-intentioned, whatever one thinks of the actual results. The first wave of change was in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and its logo was the federal Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA). Following the oil embargoes and price shocks of the 1970s, dozens of electric utilities across the country were building nuclear generating plants and running up breathtaking cost overruns on them.