New York

United’s Elizabeth Stears introduces United’s 2025 EV Ready Grid Guidebook. This new resource provides a blueprint for state leaders to invest in smart policy solutions that will prepare America’s grid to meet growing EV demand while protecting ratepayers from higher energy costs and strengthening reliability.

The New York 2025 Legislative Session adjourned on Thursday, June 12th, 2025. United’s Kristina Persaud covers key outcomes and missed opportunities from the 2025 Session, calling on lawmakers to deliver advanced energy solutions that benefit families and businesses across the state in the second half of the legislative cycle.

Assembly repeals an outdated statute that has funneled approximately $200 million annually from ratepayers into subsidizing fossil fuel dependence

New York’s newly passed 2026 budget positions the state to capture the economic benefits of the electrified transportation industry and building decarbonization

In an op-ed for Crain’s New York Business, United’s Kristina Persaud discusses the Advanced Clean Trucks rule as a way for New York to reduce emissions, highlighting the growing demand for electric vehicles (EVs) across the nation and debunking common myths surrounding EV policies.

New York is at a crossroads. Despite renewable energy’s rapid growth, accounting for over 90% of new capacity added in 2024, President Trump has paused energy funding from the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and is stalling onshore and offshore wind. With our energy future at risk, state policymakers must step up to ensure a reliable and affordable energy future for all New Yorkers.

In 2023, advanced energy employment nationwide increased by 4%, more than double the growth rate of the overall U.S. labor market. Advanced energy jobs surged from 2022 to 2023, with 4.1 million U.S. workers now working in the sector. Some of these gains were driven by the early impact of tax credits from the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

In an opinion piece in City & State New York, United’s Kristina Persaud supports the passage of New York’s Build to Need legislation (S.9113).

Today, the New York legislature passed a state budget which included transmission policies that should help the state meet its clean energy goals.

In an opinion piece featured in NJ Spotlight News, United’s President and CEO Heather O’Neill writes about the storm of challenges the offshore wind industry faced in the last few post-pandemic years, and highlights four key steps to getting the industry back to full power.

Advanced Energy United today highlighted several key proposals within New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s State of the State plan—including the end of ratepayer subsidies to expand the state’s natural gas system (the “100-foot rule”) and plans to improve the state’s transmission systems—as being key steps to accelerating the transition away from fossil fuels and promoting the swift deployment of renewable energy and heating solutions.

Today, Advanced Energy United thanked the New York Legislature for passing S4830/A5052, a bill that directs state agencies to assess where in the state the transition to electric vehicles (EVs) is likely to require strengthening or expanding the state’s electricity grid. Such analyses—and subsequent grid improvements—will ensure the grid is ready for the uptick in electricity demand that EVs will bring, and save money in the long run compared to the status quo of reactive and piecemeal grid upgrades.