New Jersey hopes for “horse trading” with other PJM states over the cost of transmission needed to integrate offshore wind and other renewables.

The NY PSC authorized developers of the Champlain Hudson Power Express to take on up to $6 billion in debt to build the line from Quebec to New York City.

Expansion of the transmission grid to accommodate decarbonization will require humility from developers and support by states, speakers told an AEE webinar.

New York regulators approved two 25-year state contracts to buy electric power from the Clean Path New York and the Champlain Hudson Power Express projects.

The New York PSC lauded Central Hudson Gas and Electric and assisting parties for their quick response to outages stemming from the early February blizzard.

New Yorkers were generally in support of the entirely in-state Clean Path NY transmission project and opposed to the line to import Canadian hydropower.

New York will start turning policy into infrastructure in 2022, with construction of a major transmission line and the first of several offshore wind projects.

New York officials report that clean energy jobs will increase by more than 200,000 this decade and by nearly 350,000 by midcentury.

New York selected the Clean Path and the Champlain Hudson Power Express transmission projects from among seven submitted to the CES Tier 4 solicitation.

The environmental organization Riverkeeper says there are proposals preferable to running transmission lines under the Hudson River.