new york climate act, Tag

Ultimately the problem is that New York has no comprehensive energy plan.  The Climate Act Scoping Plan is just a list of technologies that describe an electric system that is zero-emissions.  However, there is no feasibility...

So we move forward with our officials in a state of bluff and bluster and denial, and no plan of any kind to meet the impossible mandates of the Climate Act...

The ramifications of New York’s Climate Act on business development are becoming evident.  In 2026, certain new buildings in New York will no longer be able to install fossil fuel equipment and building systems.  Richard...

A similar fire there would require at least a shelter in place order and possibly an evacuation order for nearly a million people to say nothing about shutting down highways and the East River...

Faced with the election of Donald Trump to a second term, soaring inequality, and a decline in support from the state’s non-white majority, California’s Democratic leaders have begun asking hard questions about the state's...

The conclusion talks about trade-offs and consequences but does not acknowledge that there may not be an “affordable, reliable, competitive path to net zero” using VRE.   Given the vulnerability risk, I remain convinced...

he reason is that the intermittency of wind and solar generators means that they require full back-up from some other source. But the back-up source will by hypothesis be woefully underused and idle most of the time so long...

If the Comptroller or others in state government wonder why the Climate Action Council never did a financial analysis of the Climate Act that they forced upon the state, with the assistance of unknowing legislators, it is...

The question is whether those people can be awakened before the blackouts hit.

So what will be the event that causes the project to crater?

...If demand on the grid grows at a rate greater than the buildout of new generation and transmission, reliability deficiencies could arise…

Given the entrenched crony capitalists and special interests supporting wind and solar any shift in direction, even if necessary to protect health and safety, will be a tremendous lift.

My impression of the speakers at this meeting is that they were desperately trying to make the point that the transmission challenges for the Climate Act mandates and schedule were impossible goals without actually saying...

This situation is a major blow to the offshore wind industry and to New York's renewable energy aspirations. It also highlights the challenges faced by large-scale renewable energy projects in the United States, including...

...to date, relative to this project there exists no environmental impact statement, no feasibility study, no prototype, and no demonstration project to show how this can be done, let alone any detailed cost analysis to show...