20GW！ New York State to install renewable energy facilities

According to foreign media reports, New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli recently released a report that New York State must install 20 GW renewable energy generation facilities in the next eight years. In order to achieve the goal of 70% share of clean energy generation by 2030. And said project cancellations, delays in siting and grid connection, and inconsistent incentive programs have hampered the ability of New York developers to develop renewable energy generation facilities. In the report

, DiNapoli noted that New York State's progress in installing renewable energy has been hampered by a series of project cancellations, with 11.3% of power generation facilities that signed power purchase agreements cancelled before they came online from 2005 to April 2023. Since 2015, only 3.1% of renewable energy projects awarded power purchase agreement contracts have been put into operation. The report cites grid connection, permitting and siting delays, and inconsistent incentive programs as key factors in slowing the development of the state's renewable energy industry. New York ranks sixth in the installed capacity of renewable energy generation facilities in all States of the United States. However, there is still a long way to go if the state is to meet the goals of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act passed in 2019. Noah Ginsburg, executive director of the

New York Photovoltaic Industry Association, said that distributed energy is largely a bright spot to meet New York's energy goals. But the New York PV Industry Association's focus on the distributed PV market has not benefited from the state's Renewable Energy Siting Office, which aims to simplify the siting and permitting process for renewable energy projects with installed capacity of more than 25 MW. This means that the state may have lost renewable energy at the upper gigawatt scale because of community-level regulations that limit the development of renewable energy projects or suspend approvals for the development of new renewable energy projects.

Ginsburg said he agreed with the report's conclusions about the challenges facing photovoltaic developers, but he remained optimistic that the photovoltaic industry would achieve the goals set by New York State.