State policymakers and industry leaders at the Alliance for Clean Energy New York’s Fall Conference offered messages of full support even as they acknowledged the federal roadblocks thrown in their path.

New York City could be short as much as 650 MW in capacity in the summer of 2026, according to NYISO’s Short Term Assessment of Reliability for the third quarter.

The infrastructure that supports our ability to generate and move critically needed electrons relies heavily on a regulatory environment that offers some consistent level of predictability, says columnist Peter Kelly-Detwiler.

The New York PSC granted a request by the developers of the Empire Wind 1 offshore wind project to perform cable installation during October and November.

BOEM lifted a stop-work order on the Empire Wind 1 project in a deal that will have New York work on expanding pipelines into the Northeast, a goal the White House has publicly sought since shortly after President Trump took office.

NYISO is modeling the Empire Wind offshore wind project as in-service despite federal orders to cease construction, staff said in presenting updated assumptions for the second-quarter Short Term Assessment of Reliability.

Offshore wind advocates are closely monitoring and vigorously lobbying Congress to assess and shape potential changes to the Inflation Reduction Act and its budget.

A group of 18 Democratic state attorneys general filed suit against President Donald Trump’s executive order that halted wind energy projects’ federal approvals.

Conference attendees are optimistic that the rapidly rising demand for energy will mean the federal government eventually will have to harness wind power.