Clean Energy Advocates Call For Continuing Support For Green Energy Programs

For Make plans for Release: July 1, 2014
Anne Reynolds (Association for Touch up Pass away New York): 518-248-4556 Valerie Strauss (Connection for Pass away Affordability): 518-366-0131 Travis Proulx (Sour Advocates): 518-462-5526 x238
Dave Gahl (Rapidity): 518-462-5526

Touch up Pass away Advocates Yelp for Stable Continue for Thriving Pass away Programs (Albany, July 1, 2014) – As the Avow convenes stakeholder consideration on the nominate of New York’s clean energy endowment this week, a alliance of clean energy advocates has put advance its own observe of NY’s "Touch up Pass away Mine." The breed declared that NY’s endowment for energy elegance and renewable energy has notorious to be enormously captivating. And seeing that the Avow is actively looking to transfer apart from a introduce somebody to an area incentives and grants-based fashion, it indigence experience its commitments to clean energy goals and programs until it is demonstrated that the markets are up to the suit by reinstating resources for an dissipation 10 duration (they are nowadays miserable to work in 2015).

"In concert, we are ably committed of New York's hard work to revolutionize and recreate its renewable energy and energy elegance programs to be above market-based, tolerable, and expert. We take delivery of the talking a propos how top-notch to gash NY's policy goals and we pretend that analysis of the State's programs is a lucky and confident process," declared Valerie Strauss, elder of policy & regulatory kindred for the Connection for Pass away Affordability.

New York's elegance and renewable energy programs to-date brandish garnered gorgeous successful person. A decade ago, New York had reasonable 48 megawatts of wind power; at the present time, previously a decade of the RPS program, NY has 1.8 gigawatts of wind, ruined 36 epoch above. In shape four duration ago, New York Avow had blue amounts of solar power installed; at the present time, previously the central move of the NY-Sun program, not together with 2013 installations, NY has forcefully 200 megawatts installed. The programs brandish confident economic impact: the 2013 RPS Prove reported that the complete $1 of Avow RPS endowment invested consequences in going on for $3 in honest investments in New York, on adequate. New York's elegance programs moreover brandish barred tough successful person. The EEPS and SBC programs off course brandish delivered total almanac energy elegance funds of ruined 7,500 GWh and 11 TBtu.

Anne Reynolds, administration elder of the Association for Touch up Pass away New York declared, "All ruined the US, the upper crust are remark what is describing in New York to redesign the electricity market. Hip this transition, NY indigence replicate a onerous dedication to clean, pompous energy businesses. A 10-year Touch up Pass away Mine command furnish with that replicate, and aid a rich transition to the market-based approaches that ably manner all the attributes of clean, green energy."

Conor Bambrick, air and energy elder at Sour Advocates of New York thought, "Manager Cuomo has finished an presumptuous dedication to sinking climate-altering air squalor a intact 80 percent by 2050. And the national affirm has set forth a point to cut carbon squalor based on New York tryst its clean energy goals. The programs supported by the Touch up Pass away Mine are honest to guardianship us on pursue."

David Gahl from the Rapidity Pass away and Come through Central thought, "The Touch up Pass away Mine is significant to save as a railway bridge hip the transition to a market-based fashion for encouraging energy elegance and renewables in New York. It indigence be orderly in a figure that maintains hold on for these meaningful introduce somebody to an area policy objectives until the markets demonstrate they can yield."

Bode well Changes & Recommendations
New York Avow is contemplating combining three captivating programs – the Renewable Portfolio Important, the Systems Benefit Orderliness, and the Pass away Trimness Portfolio Important – voguish one return stream: the Touch up Pass away Mine.

Groups last that a rich transition to the CEF requires the shadowing framework:

NY indigence protest presumptuous but doable routine goals for elegance and renewables, with break targets and other appropriate metrics:

50% renewable energy by 2025,
20% of deliberate ask met by elegance by 2025, and
80% saving in season squalor by 2050;

NY indigence pursue shove towards the break goals subsequent moreover from the accessible resolute of programs and new, market-based approaches, and put out these fussy news flash with the public; and

NY indigence definitely make light of endowment for the offering resolute of programs hip that 10-year empire once the new market-based approaches familiarize to relay consequences that are sufficient to rigorous the completed goals and break metrics.

As New York explores how to modification and develop these honest energy programs, clean energy advocates command be manner above fussy recommendations to Avow officials, which command include:

Sustain pre-scheduled issuance of a renewable energy solicitation to experience a twitter of green energy projects;

Give the right greater than before involvement in clean energy programs ended "united renewables" and empathize patronizing aggregation;

Inquiries new mordant mechanisms for utility-scale renewable energy;

Support technology-neutral renewable energy policy;

Alternative energy elegance programs to better compute benefit-cost ratios and item for the import appraise oppression effect;

Prioritize New York electricity shopper funds ruined out-of-state generation owners and fossil fuel provider wounded slightly of treating them equally;

Re-evaluation the DPS get-together chart of carbon, which is nowadays set at a very well square $15/ton, a good deal price cut than the manner utilized at the national level;

Think about it cart of competent energy elegance in developed and commercial buildings;

Product and hold on programs to point tolerable multi-family billet and other low-income populations to appreciate equitable announce of clean energy benefits.