New York’s Energy Highway

For Corporate America Day, the Clean Energy Wonk weblog had this:

In his 2012 State of the State address, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo put forward an initiative to upgrade and modernize New York State’s electric power system. The goal is to systematically plan new electricity generation and transmission in the state with all the relevant government agencies and private developers at the table.

The first stage of the proposal was a request for information about proposed generation and transmission from developers, utilities, and interest groups. These responses are in, and are shown on these maps:

NY Energy Highway Transmission

Ny Energy Highway Generation Map

The Energy Highway task force will be taking comments from the public on these proposals until July 31, and issue an action plan based on all the information received sometime this fall.

More information is available at the NY Energy Highway website.

You can give comments about the NY Energy Highway project here.

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This entry was written by jcwinnie, posted on 2012-7-5 at 7:58 am, filed under advocacy, development, energy, transportation and tagged , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

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  1. jcwinnie
    Posted 2012-7-12 at 8:54 am | Permalink

    According to a report by the California Public Utilities Commission, the state of California plans to have a total of 1,940 megawatts of solar capacity implemented by 2016, probably at the end of the year. The Golden State was the first in the United States to achieve 1,000 MW of installed customer generated solar technology. Over 300 MW were constructed in 2011.

    The California Solar Initiative is the largest solar program in the country and has a budget of $2.2 billion dollars. By the end of the first quarter of 2012, California had about 1,255 MW of solar capacity installed at over 120,000 sites.

    Though solar power has become somewhat of a political football in an election year, and there has been some negative press due to situations like Solyndra (just one of hundreds or thousands of solar power companies), California has continued to install more solar capacity. Given the political turbulence and a struggling economy, it is impressive to see such a huge state determined to follow through with its clean energy goals.

    One of the main benefits of installing 1,940 MW of solar capacity by 2016 is replacing 585 million therms of natural gas utilization.

    Net metering is also part of the overall strategy, as it allows some financial benefit (albeit not large) to low-income residents who install solar panels, as well as those who typically buy solar panels who have more money.

    When the national economy returns to a more stable and productive phase, one would hope the lessons learned during the lean times could help the cause even more, when there is greater opportunity for financing, and creative strategy.

  2. jcwinnie
    Posted 2012-7-22 at 7:31 pm | Permalink

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