State Policy Roadmaps
New York
Advanced Energy United’s resource, "Advanced Energy Creates Opportunities for New York: A Policy Roadmap for New York’s Governor," outlines how New York’s Governor can increase the capacity and efficiency of the state’s energy infrastructure through grid resilience technologies, support the expansion of affordable advanced energy generation and storage, continue national leadership on advanced grid modernization and technology deployment; and promote customer-facing technologies to make energy more affordable for consumers across the state.
To achieve these goals, Advanced Energy United’s recommendations for New York’s Governor focus on these core tenets:
- Build it: New York must prioritize reforms to planning, siting, permitting, interconnection, and procurement of advanced energy resources. Energy prices are too high in part because there are too many barriers for advanced energy to connect to the grid and provide low-cost power. While there are also federal and international barriers, the Empire State can lead on building advanced energy to meet load growth and ensure households and businesses have reliable energy.
- Make it Flexible: New York can lower costs right now by making it easier to adopt technologies that make electric demand flexible. This means wider deployment of distributed energy resources (DERs), energy efficiency (EE), virtual power plants (VPPs), and advanced vehicle and building electrification solutions via state programs, plans, and rates. These innovative technologies make it easier for grid operators to keep costs down in real-time and in the long run. They also prepare the grid for increased electricity demand.
- Make it Affordable: Energy costs will be higher if we do not properly plan energy investments. Our governor can take steps to ensure that our public utilities are planning, optimizing, and delivering the right types of energy investment at the lowest possible cost, while also identifying least-cost financing avenues for projects both big and small and working with our partners around the region to better share energy across state lines.
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