A number of area real estate concerns were acknowledged at an event designed to raise awareness of initiatives to utilize renewable energy sources. The Durst Organization's, whose 4 Times Square has recognized nationally as one of the nation's most "green" buildings, has become New York State's largest commercial customer of wind power.

The company is making an annual purchase of approximately 10.5 million kilowatt-hours of clean and renewable "Green Power," which consists of NewWind Energy, a product of Community Energy Inc., for its 7.5-million-sf portfolio of seven high-rise office buildings in Manhattan.

"Green Power" is clean, renewable energy generated in New York State that is now available to all residential, commercial, industrial and government energy users in New York City, as well as Westchester, Rockland, and Orange counties.