New York’s Green Schemes Face Local Backlash, Sky-High Costs, And Energy Shortages
How local backlash is derailing Albany’s clean-energy fantasies.
by Robert Bryce Apr 9, 2025
New York’s headlong push for an all-renewable electric grid is running out of gas. [emphasis, links added]
Or, to be more accurate, it’s colliding with New Yorkers who refuse to allow their farms, forests, and neighborhoods to be paved with oceans of solar panels and planted with forests of 600-foot-high wind turbines.
A new report commissioned by the New York Affordable Clean Power Alliance, which represents solar energy, wind energy, and independent power producers, concludes that the Empire State’s electric grid faces “hurdles in maintaining reliability” due in large part to its failure to meet “ambitious renewables targets.”
The state has “fallen short” of those eco-friendly goals because of such “challenges” as “local opposition” and “lack of transmission capacity.”
https://climatechangedispatch.com/new-yorks-green-schemes-face-local-backlash-sky-high-costs-and-energy-shortages/
