BlocPower promised to help electrify Ithaca. Now it has ended its support.

Grist
By Rebecca Redelmeier, WSKGFeb 9, 2025, 9:00 am136 pts
In 2021, the small city of Ithaca announced it would electrify all of its 6,000 buildings with the help of one key partner: a technology company called BlocPower, whose then-CEO Donnel Baird said the company would make the mass electrification process fast and affordable. “There’s a lot of expensive…

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