Investor-owned utility representatives told New York state officials Thursday that they largely agree with state suggestions on ways to improve their companies’ methodologies for calculating transmission headroom in the state’s effort to accommodate the coming surge in renewable generation (Case No. 20-E-0197). The utilities outlined their methodology in a November...

Fulfilling the goals of New York’s 2019 landmark climate law, according to some, will require more aggressive action than has been proposed already. Public appointees of the state’s Climate Action Council on Thursday gave legislators their reactions to the advisory panel recommendations that will inform a scoping plan for emission...

Colorado regulator Megan Gilman worries that the electrification of home heating could leave fewer natural gas customers paying increasingly high bills. But Consolidated Edison executive Marc Huestis told the Energy Bar Association’s annual meeting Wednesday that could be avoided by continued use of natural gas infrastructure for delivering low-carbon fuel.

The supply chain for independent breweries is rife with opportunities to build sustainability, according to the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute at Rochester Institute of Technology. Upstream supply chain raw materials processing is "most responsible for the industry's impact on the environment," said Trish Donohue, sustainable supply chain program...

FERC Chairman Richard Glick | IPPNY With the Biden administration pushing hard on renewable energy development and a more supportive FERC, New York now has the federal wind at the back of its ambitious clean energy goals set forth in the state’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA). A...

Joining the Transportation and Climate Initiative Program (TCI-P) will help New York fund a seamless transition to a zero-emissions transportation sector, according to Department of Transportation Commissioner Marie Therese Dominguez. TCI-P would cap and reduce transportation emissions across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions by close to 25% by 2030, while...

Clean energy advocates and solar developers told New York officials to tweak the value of distributed energy resources (VDER) tariff on environmental value rather than make complicated new processes to sustain PV growth. "We have a successful program and paradigm in place, and VDER is looked to by other states...

New York is increasing the number of affordable and multifamily housing units that can apply for a net-zero retrofit project that insulates a building from the outside without temporarily displacing residents. The RetrofitNY initiative can wrap an existing building in a new, energy efficient sweater, with panels that are prefabricated,...

A bill that would require all of New York’s in-state, new passenger car and truck sales to be zero-emission vehicles by 2035 is headed to Gov. Andrew Cuomo for his signature. "We are really hopeful and pretty encouraged that he will sign the bill given that it has a good...

The New York Climate Action Council’s Power Generation Advisory Panel will recommend that the full council adopt a moratorium on building new gas-fired power plants and related infrastructure — with the caveat that it did not achieve consensus on the idea. (See "Public Input" in NY Power Panel Debates Gas...