Five Entrepreneurs Changing the Alternative Energy Picture in New York and the Surrounding Area

The managing director of BQ Energy, Paul Curran, 50, has overseen what he describes as the first large-scale wind project inside an American city ... Earlier this summer his Putnam County-based company, working with UPC Wind of Newton, Mass., placed eight wind turbines on the site of an old Bethlehem Steel mill in Lackawanna, N.Y., a suburb south of Buffalo.

With blades reaching higher than the Statue of Liberty, this wind farm can provide the power needs for about 7,000 homes, he said.