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Winter’s arrival in upstate New York brings a unique set of challenges to area residents.

As Barilla America Inc. strives toward achieving its corporate sustainability targets at its Avon, N.Y., manufacturing facility, National Grid has provided the pasta manufacturer with more than $100,000 in energy efficiency incentives and will continue working with the company to identify additional cost- and energy-savings opportunities to help the plant run more efficiently and remain competitive.

National Grid and the Town of Hempstead, today announced a joint project to build one of the first and largest clean hydrogen projects in the country, to decarbonize networks.

National Grid crews have restored power to 212,000, or 97%, of the nearly 221,000 upstate New York customers impacted by the severe windstorm that caused significant and widespread damage across the region over the weekend.

National Grid’s upstate New York field force of more than 3,400 workers has restored power to nearly 180,000 of the approximately 215,000 customers impacted by the powerful windstorm that swept across the region Saturday through this morning.

A National Grid field force of more than 3,300 workers is active across upstate New York removing downed wires, trees, tree limbs, broken poles and other hazards, while focusing on public safety and service restoration after a sustained, powerful windstorm hovered over the region Saturday through early this morning.

For the second consecutive weekend, National Grid has increased staffing, extended evening and overnight work shifts and is closely monitoring weather forecasts that include wind gusts of up to 70 mph and heavy rainfall across portions of upstate New York today into Sunday.

National Grid is increasing staffing, extending evening and overnight work shifts and closely monitoring an upstate New York weather forecast that calls for high winds, scattered rain and potential thunderstorms on Saturday.