California
has long been the standard-bearer for clean energy in the United States, with
ambitious renewable energy mandates backed by regulatory action to reform not
only the way that utilities procure power, but how they approach resources on
the customer side of the meter.
But
New York may be giving California a run for its money as the most progressive
state for policy to enable a transformation of the electric grid. As the latest,
on Thursday New York Governor Andrew
Cuomo announced a series of new goals which deepen the state's embrace of clean
energy as a means for greenhouse gas reduction.
Topping
the list, Governor Cuomo set a target for the state to install solar arrays on 150,000
additional homes and businesses by 2020, a five-fold expansion on the 30,000
arrays that the state has supported since 2013.
As
a means to reach this goal, the governor's office mentioned the new "Shared
Renewables" virtual net metering program. Under the program, New York residents
can subscribe to receive the benefits of a PV array up to 2 MW-AC located on a
sponsor's property, through net metering.
EQ
Director of Research Justin Barnes says that the NY-SUN MW Block incentive program for large-scale solar will also be key in
meeting this goal. The program provides geographically differentiated
performance-based incentives to systems up to 2 MW.
“It's
going to be as critical to a community renewables project as it is to any other
large-scale industrial
project,” states Barnes. He also says that while there were few applications
for the program after it was rolled out, that interest is
increasing.
In
addition to the 150,000 new PV installations, Governor Cuomo announced that the
State University of New York (SUNY) system will install renewable energy at each
of its 64 campuses by 2020. This builds on a previous SUNY commitment to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions 30% by 2020.
A
third pledge was to engage the states in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
(RGGI) to explore the possibility of linking this market with carbon markets in
Quebec, California and Ontario.
These
three were announced concurrent with the signing of the Under 2 MOU, an agreement between states,
provinces and cities globally to play their part in keeping the earth's average
temperature from rising more than two degrees Celsius by 2100, versus
pre-industrial levels.
New
York already has one of the most aggressive targets in the nation for greenhouse
gas reduction, with plans to reduce emissions 40% below 1990 levels by 2030 and
80% by 2050.
As
a key means to meet this target, New York is currently
engaged in a process to rethink the structure of its electricity system,
including the role of utilities. Reforming the Energy Vision may be the most advanced process of
restructuring in the nation, and is specifically focused on distributed energy
resources and providing tools and knowledge to allow customers to manage their
resources under a more dynamic system.
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