Watch: Sunrise Wind Groundbreaking and What it Means for Long Island

"We get to stand here today to celebrate a 900+ megawatt project one of the first of its kind in the country and it's happening not just here in New York, but on Long Island" -Ryan Stanton, Long Island Federation of Labor, Executive Director

"This is good for you, good for your grandkids, and their grandkids that's how far this will travel" -Matthew Aracich, Building and Construction Trades Council of Nassau & Suffolk Counties, President

"We really are witnessing history in the making. Because when we change the way we produce energy, we change the world" -Adrienne Esposito, Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Executive Director