Under Public Pressure to Build, NYPA Considers 6.2 GW Additional Public Renewables
Following a mass pressure campaign that won $100 million in state budget funding earlier this year, the the New York Power Authority (NYPA) confirmed at a Board of Trustees meeting that it is currently reviewing an additional 6.2 gigawatts (GW) of renewable projects beyond the 5.5 GW currently planned.
Read MoreComptroller Report Affirms City Properties are Golden Opportunity for Public Renewables as NYC Experiences Summer of Climate Change Hell
New York City Comptroller Mark Levine said that the City is underutilizing public assets like municipal rooftops, parking lots, fleet depots, wastewater facilities, and other public properties for renewable energy infrastructure like solar and battery storage, which is desperately needed as the climate crisis worsens.
Democratic Socialists: Deadly Heat Highlights Need for Public Renewables
As New Yorkers experience the suffocating effects of a climate-change driven heat dome and the state’s electric grid operator issues an energy watch, showing how precarious a grid relying on a patchwork of for profit companies is, incumbent and newly elected Democratic Socialists are demanding a solution: public renewables.
As Heat Dome Descends on New York, NYISO Says State Not Building Renewables Fast Enough, Future Blackouts Possible
In a draft report, the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) warns that the state is not on track to meet its 70% renewable energy goal by 2030 or 100% by 2040. The report says that with the current slow buildout of renewables under the Kathy Hochul administration, the state will only reach 40 percent…
Public Power Champs Headed to Albany and Washington D.C.
On Tuesday night, New Yorkers voted in the Democratic primaries to send public power champions, Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier to congress and eight socialists will join the increasingly powerful bloc of state legislators in Albany demanding the New York Power Authority (NYPA) step up and build at least 15 gigawatts (GW) of public…
Public Renewables Only Solution in Governor Kathy Hochul’s Climate Budget Disaster
New York legislators approved a state budget last night that includes Governor Kathy Hochul’s devastating rollbacks to New York’s nation leading climate law. The budget has one bright spot: $100 million for public renewables.