{"id":361724,"date":"2026-10-01T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/361724\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T10:00:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T10:00:48","slug":"solar-canopy-in-long-island-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/361724\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Canopy In Long Island City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) Commissioner Yume\u00a0Kitasei\u00a0announced the start of work on the city\u2019s first solar energy canopy installation on a New York City parking garage, a project that will provide 784 kW of energy to power the garage and save the city an estimated $150,000 per year in energy costs. The project will be a model that will\u00a0demonstrate\u00a0how similar solar power systems can be replicated at other urban parking garages. The New York Power Authority (NYPA) and the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) are collaborating with DCAS to complete the project on the roof level of the Long Island City facility. DCAS contracted with NYPA to install the system at the NYCDOT Court Square parking garage at 45-40 Court Square W, Long Island City.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReducing greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector is key to delivering a safer and healthier climate for all,\u201d said NYC DOT Commissioner Mike Flynn. \u201cWe are proud to partner with DCAS and NYPA to use our parking facility as a case study to test the potential of this innovative renewable energy technology.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-213493 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/x_sp1rDw-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DCAS contracted with NYPA to install the system at the NYCDOT Court Square parking garage at 45-40 Court Square W, Long Island City.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) Commissioner Yume\u00a0Kitasei\u00a0announced the start of work on the city\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-361724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}