ALBANY — Local residents and organizations associated with the Sheridan Hollow Alliance for Renewable Energy called on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to halt the planned microgrid project on Sheridan Avenue and seek renewable energy solutions instead.

The push for state officials to reissue a request for proposals for alternatives to the planned microgrid — which would include the installation of two natural-gas fired turbines — comes weeks after the New York Power Authority pledged to a full environmental impact study on the proposed project.

The microgrid is poised to be built at a former trash-burning plant on Sheridan Avenue. The state says it would be able to provide more than 90 percent of the Empire State Plaza's energy needs.

But previous issues with the trash-burning plant has neighborhood residents concerned about the impact the latest proposal will have on the community.

Demand for answers and possible alternatives spiked in August when a local group submitted a petition to the state calling for the project to be halted.

Instead of an environmental assessment on the planned project, the group wants a new request for proposal issued seeking clean, renewable energy alternatives to power the Capitol and Empire State Plaza.

NYPA committed to the full study during a community forum in October in which officials outlined plans to house two 8-megawatt, clean-burning natural gas-fired turbine generators at the former incinerator site next to the large steam plant on Sheridan Avenue that still is used as part of the complex system that heats and cools the Empire State Plaza.

The study cannot be undertaken until the design is complete, power authority officials said, and they are still negotiating that contract. It's expected to be completed in early 2018.