New Yorkers need affordable and reliable electricity, and generating electrical
power is essential to the success of New York’s economy.
Andrew Cuomo’s Power NY agenda will provide the energy our state needs while
improving our environment and creating jobs.
Learn more about Andrew’s energy proposal:
Maximize Energy Efficiency
A “win-win-win” way to lower energy costs, create jobs and improve the environment.
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Maximize Energy Efficiency
New York must maximize energy efficiency by increasing the availability of financing for energy efficiency investments, by expanding programs such as the Property Assessed Clean Energy (“PACE”) program and on-bill recovery financing, accelerating energy efficiency improvements to public buildings by leveraging government funds with private capital and improving energy efficiency through building code.
Build the Smart Grid
Empowering consumers to reduce their energy costs and increase efficiency.
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Build the Smart Grid
New York must facilitate “smart grid” projects — empowering consumers to reduce their energy costs by being smarter about the use of electricity and helps the State meet its energy efficiency goals in a way that reduces costs for all energy users. By 2020, every home and business should have access to a smart meter that is connected to the electric grid.
Use Energy Policy to Create Jobs and Drive Economic Development
Make New York a leader in the new cleantech economy and use low cost power to create and preserve jobs.
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Use Energy Policy to Create Jobs and Drive Economic Development
We must make “cleantech” a priority in our economic development efforts by supporting cleantech industries, harnessing the power of cleantech research at our academic and research institutions and we must use low cost power to create and preserve jobs by enacting a permanent "Power for Jobs" program.
Improve the Environment through Renewables and Clean Energy
Expand wind and solar power and repower old plants to make them cleaner and more efficient.
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Improve the Environment through Renewables and Clean Energy
New York must promote renewable energy projects such as on-shore and off-shore wind projects; increase solar energy by creating a new “NY-Sun Solar Renewable Energy Credits” program; jumpstart the use of solar thermal technology for water heating; repower older power plants with modern plants to increase capacity and reduce emissions; promote a new comprehensive electric generation siting law that will streamline and expedite the approvals process; expand distributed generation to increase capacity and empower customers and increase capacity through combined heat and power cogeneration.
Upgrade and Expand the Transmission Grid
Improve reliability and reduce costs by upgrading our transmission infrastructure and bringing reliable, low cost clean energy to areas where it is needed most while maintaining regional equity.
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Upgrade and Expand the Transmission Grid
New York must upgrade and expand the transmission grid by using cutting-edge cable technology to upgrade New York’s aging transmission infrastructure to carry more power on the same towers and spur investment in new transmission lines along existing rights.
Reform New York’s Energy Bureaucracy
For transparency, accountability and greater effectiveness.
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Reform New York’s Energy Bureaucracy
New York needs to develop a cohesive and integrated approach to energy policy consistent with the State’s other policies and programs including consolidating and streamlining redundant State agencies while minimizing fragmented policy expertise and bureaucratic authority; requiring more accountability in our energy regulatory structure, and appointing an independent group of experts to examine the structure and practices of how energy prices are set.
