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Governor Cuomo Hosts First New York State Yogurt Summit (Governor's news release)

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Aug. 15, Albany - Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo hosts the first New York State Yogurt Summit to help dairy farmers and yogurt producers grow and create jobs.  With the Governor, from left, Gil C. Quiniones, president and CEO, New York Power Authority, and Larry Webster, CEO of Upstate Niagara Cooperative, which recently reopened a 90-year-old yogurt production facility in St. Lawrence County thanks to a low-cost NYPA hydropower allocation and other state and local government incentives coordinated by the Cuomo Administration.

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Aug. 15, Albany – Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo brought together state agency heads and elected officials for the first New York State Yogurt Summit to advance the state’s yogurt production industry.  Among the officials at the summit, from left, are Patrick M. Hooker, senior manager of agribusiness development at the Empire State Development Corp. and a past state agriculture commissioner, Gil C. Quiniones, president and CEO, New York Power Authority, and State Senator James L. Seward.

■The New York Power Authority uses no tax money or state credit. It finances its operations through the sale of bonds and revenues earned in large part through sales of electricity. ■NYPA is a leader in promoting energy efficiency, new energy technologies and electric transportation initiatives.■It is the nation's largest state public power organization, with 17 generating facilities in various parts of New York State and more than 1,400 circuit-miles of transmission lines. ■Approximately 80 percent of the electricity it produces is clean renewable hydropower. Its lower-cost power production and electricity purchases support hundreds of thousands of jobs throughout the state.■For more information, www.nypa.gov