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New York Climate Act Scoping Plan
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On December 30, 2021 New York State released for public comment its Draft Scoping Plan that defines how to “achieve the State’s bold clean energy and climate agenda”. Given the intrusive changes to lifestyles, risks to a reliable electric system, substantial cost increases, serious environmental impacts of the necessary wind, solar and storage technologies, and the lack of any direct global warming benefits it is imperative all New Yorkers get involved with the comment process. For everyone else it is worth taking a look to see what the “plan” is when your version of “net-zero” is proposed. Spoiler alert for anyone from Europe – no they did not learn anything from the current energy crisis unfolding there.
Background
The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (Climate Act) was passed in 2019 and became effective on 1/1/2020. Climate Action Council has been working since then to develop plans to implement the Act. Starting in the fall of 2020 seven advisory panels developed recommended policies to meet the targets that were presented to the Climate Action Council in the spring of 2021. Over the summer of 2021 the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA) and its consultant Energy + Environmental Economics (E3) prepared an Integration Analysis to “estimate the economy-wide benefits, costs, and GHG emissions reductions associated with pathways that achieve the Climate Act GHG emission limits and carbon neutrality goal”. The Integration Analysis implementation strategies were incorporated into the Scoping Plan over the past couple of months and at the December 20, 2021 Climate Action Council meeting they voted to release the Scoping Plan for public comment. The comment period will be at least 120 days long but there were suggestions that it should be extended. When finalized the Plan will be used to revise the New York Energy Plan and rulemaking to implement its provisions will begin.
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