New York State Pushes Ambitious Public Renewable Energy Agenda
, the coalition said, “While New York passed leading climate targets in 2019, its reliance on for-profit corporations to meet them has kept New York stuck at just 4% wind and solar power every year since. That’s a fifth as much as Texas.”
“BRPA will shut down some of the state’s most polluting oil and gas plants — which are concentrated in working class, Black and brown communities — by 2030, replacing them with pollution-free renewable power. It will make energy bills cheaper for those who need it most. In a 2021 report, a coalition of state environmental justice groups found that 78% of residents living within one mile of the plants are either low income or people of color. The report also found that peaker plants contribute up to 94% of New York’s nitrogen oxide pollution, a key component of smog, on days when ozone levels are high.
Another factor was the Inflation Reduction Act passed by Congress last year and signed into law by President Biden last August. The IRA provides expanded tax credits for renewables and makes them available for the first time to tax exempt public power entities like the New York Power Authority.
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