C&S Companies generating solar power at Salina HQ following panel-installation project

SALINA, N.Y. — C&S Companies on Wednesday announced that it has begun generating solar power at its headquarters in Salina, not far from Syracuse Hancock International Airport.

The firm expects the 672 roof-mounted solar panels that are part of C&S’s solar-power system to generate about 25 percent of the facility’s electrical consumption with clean, zero carbon, solar energy.

“Implementing a solar power system is just one of the many ways in which we’re embracing sustainability,” Tim Hughes, corporate sustainability leader of C&S, said in a release. “In addition to the environmental benefits, the financial payback this system will generate in the first few years will essentially pay for the installation costs.”

Installation of the solar panels supports C&S’s sustainability initiative to “reduce the consumption, degradation and depletion of vital, limited resources,” C&S said. Other sustainability initiatives at the Syracuse–area office have included Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification, Energy Star equipment purchases, occupancy sensors, and a recycling program.

Construction of the solar-power system was completed by Solar Liberty of Buffalo “in only a few months,” with the final commissioning of the system this month, the firm added.

Salina–based C&S Companies is a planning, design, and construction firm that also has offices in Rochester, Binghamton, Albany, and Buffalo, and others “across the country.” The firm serves government, airports, higher education, health care, industrial, private development, and other clients with infrastructure planning, design, and construction projects.