Wouldn’t it be fun to have your refrigerator powered by the East River? That’s the idea behind a private company’s plan to install three small tidal turbines off Roosevelt Island this fall. The underwater system will be hooked up to Con Edison’s power grid. I asked John Banigan, CEO of Verdant Power, the New York City-based company behind...

Source: Wall Street Journal September 15, 2020 14:01 UTC