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Time To Get Real About NY’s Energy Plans
In 2019, with virtually no legislative debate, New York’s legislature passed the CLCPA, the most radical energy legislation in the country. This law set extraordinarily aggressive requirements for limiting greenhouse gas emissions, but amazingly, it didn’t specify how they would be achieved or how much they would cost the people of New York.
Now six years later, reality is dawning that the “scoping plans” laid out by the Climate Action Council are extraordinarily unrealistic and costly, and threaten the reliability of the electric grid.
Since the law was passed:
- Electric prices have surged by double digits with no end in sight.
- Utility companies and the government have had to urge consumers to use less energy to avoid “massive blackouts.”
- Reliable power generation from traditional sources has diminished, while renewable power generation projects have been delayed, cancelled, or suffered huge cost over-runs.
- The NY Comptrollers office issued a scathing report highlighting the failures of the plans’ implementation and questioning whether the assumptions were valid.
- Natural gas and other fossil fuels have been banned from new construction.
- The law’s implementation plans call for eventually outlawing use of traditional fuels in homes and buildings. So, you would be forced to convert your home or car at a cost of tens of thousands of extra dollars. (note: Gasoline fueled cars would also be eliminated.)
- They are planning on a new type of energy tax called Cap and Invest that will end up artificially inflating the cost of gasoline, natural gas, oil, propane to every New Yorker, and increase the cost of other goods and services.
- They are mandating that school districts will need to buy electric buses starting in 2027, which can cost twice as much as existing ones.
Most New Yorkers have no idea how much these plans will impact their lives and the state itself — whether you use natural gas, electricity, heating oil or propane; whether you rent or own; or whether you live in the city, suburbs or rural areas.
What should be done
Many lawmakers, both Democrat and Republican, recognize that the 2019 law needs to be modified before irreparable harm is done to NY families and businesses. But they face stiff resistance from entrenched political interests. You need to make your voice heard right now by clicking here.
Good intentions don’t make for smart policy. New York only accounts for around ½ of 1% of the world’s carbon emissions. Objecting to these unrealistic and dangerous plans doesn’t mean you don’t care about climate change. It means you want to get real.
New York needs a balanced energy policy that doesn’t put all our eggs in one fragile electric basket or raise all energy costs in huge ways. We need to focus more on increasing energy efficiency and insulation, which permanently cut fuel use. We should also be supporting traditional fuels that are becoming increasingly renewable, including Bioheat® fuel, renewable propane, renewable natural gas and more.
What could the current plans cost the families?
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CONTACT LAWMAKERSIn the News
Check out blogs, articles and commentary about the implications of electrification and the impending energy disruption that the CLCPA could trigger.
The Empire Center of NY released a new study that shows NY State is hiding the true cost of its climate action plans.
Roger Caiazza, former Executive Director of the Environmental Energy Alliance of New York, has worked on electric grid reliability in NY for four decades and has been examining the CLCPA proposal and sharing important insights about its shortcomings.
See what happens when Governor Hochul is pressed by reporters about the truth behind her energy plans.
To see updated articles and studies that affect your energy future, click here.
Multiple paths yield greater chances of success
New York's climate plans focus almost entirely on getting homes and businesses to switch to electricity as the sole answer for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But the cost to convert a home to heat pumps can run to tens of thousands of dollars, and NY already has some of the highest electric rates in the country. The cost of multiple wind projects have ballooned, and many developers have withdrawn from state contracts. What’s more, renewable power sources don't come close to meeting our state’s growing energy needs.
Fortunately, improvements are already underway in traditional fuels like natural gas, propane gas and heating oil that increase renewable content, reduce carbon and other harmful emissions, and increase equipment efficiency — at a far lower cost and with far less disruption to families and businesses. We need to include these fuels to assure both a better climate and a secure, reliable energy supply — at a price tag that doesn’t crush NY families and businesses.
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