New York is aiming for an ambitious climate goal: 70% renewable energy by 2030. And community solar is a key contributor, as 93% of solar deployed in NY to date has come from either community or rooftop solar, aka “distributed solar.” But the state is at an inflection point.
Several large utility-scale projects have recently been canceled, leaving a significant gap in New York’s ability to meet this goal. That’s why it’s more important than ever that NY doubles its distributed #solar goal to 20GW by 2035.
Arcadia strongly supports New York Solar Energy Industries Association's 20x35 goal and looks forward to engaging with policymakers to continue to make #communitysolar a core piece of New York’s energy transition.
Today, New York Solar Energy Industries Association released 20 Gigawatts by 2035: Raising New York’s Distributed Solar Goal, a detailed policy report that calls on New York state lawmakers to raise the state’s distributed solar goal to 20 gigawatts by 2035.
New York has already installed nearly six gigawatts of distributed solar, enough to power one million homes. Accelerating rooftop and community solar deployment will deliver tremendous benefits to New Yorkers while helping close the gap on New York's clean energy commitments.
Policy interventions are needed to sustain rapid and cost-effective distributed solar deployment, including interconnection reform, siting reform, and rate design improvements. The 20X35 roadmap highlights the benefits of rooftop and community solar and details the policies we need to deliver 20 gigawatts by 2035, driving progress toward New York's nation-leading clean energy goals. Let's go!
Read the press release (https://lnkd.in/dCuzBKq3) and visit nysolarroadmap.org to download the full report.
Today, New York Solar Energy Industries Association released 20 Gigawatts by 2035: Raising New York’s Distributed Solar Goal, a detailed policy report that calls on New York state lawmakers to raise the state’s distributed solar goal to 20 gigawatts by 2035.
New York has already installed nearly six gigawatts of distributed solar, enough to power one million homes. Accelerating rooftop and community solar deployment will deliver tremendous benefits to New Yorkers while helping close the gap on New York's clean energy commitments.
Policy interventions are needed to sustain rapid and cost-effective distributed solar deployment, including interconnection reform, siting reform, and rate design improvements. The 20X35 roadmap highlights the benefits of rooftop and community solar and details the policies we need to deliver 20 gigawatts by 2035, driving progress toward New York's nation-leading clean energy goals. Let's go!
Read the press release (https://lnkd.in/dCuzBKq3) and visit nysolarroadmap.org to download the full report.
93% of solar capacity in New York is rooftop or community solar. With increasing bottlenecks for utility-scale resources, now is the time for New York's leaders to double down on distributed energy resources. Great policy recommendations from New York Solar Energy Industries Association about how to get 20 GW of DG online by 2035.
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Policy Director at New York Solar Energy Industries Association
Breaking News: This morning, my team and I at New York Solar Energy Industries Association released a comprehensive policy roadmap for the State of New York to double its rooftop and community solar deployment goal from 10 gigawatts by 2030 to 20 gigawatts by 2035. New York is behind schedule to achieve our CLCPA requirement of sourcing 70% of our electricity needs from renewable energy by 2030. To put us back on track, we need to take bold action. Today's roadmap release sets an ambitious but achievable goal, and charts a path to guide New York through the next phase of our clean energy transition.
While rooftop and community solar is currently being deployed at a rapid pace, achieving 20GW by 2035 will require high impact policy intervention to address permitting, interconnection and economic barriers to distributed solar deployment. Our roadmap details these regulatory and legislative policy proposals and calls for bold action to support near-term progress toward New York’s ambitious CLCPA requirements.
This report is the result of many months of hard work by every member of our team. Our campaign to achieve 20GW by 2035 is supported by a growing coalition of diverse organizations that want New York to reach its nation-leading clean energy and equity goals. I am incredibly proud of our team, and I'm fired up and ready to go to work executing this plan. Click the link to download the report: https://lnkd.in/eBK5G8eW
Breaking News: This morning, my team and I at New York Solar Energy Industries Association released a comprehensive policy roadmap for the State of New York to double its rooftop and community solar deployment goal from 10 gigawatts by 2030 to 20 gigawatts by 2035. New York is behind schedule to achieve our CLCPA requirement of sourcing 70% of our electricity needs from renewable energy by 2030. To put us back on track, we need to take bold action. Today's roadmap release sets an ambitious but achievable goal, and charts a path to guide New York through the next phase of our clean energy transition.
While rooftop and community solar is currently being deployed at a rapid pace, achieving 20GW by 2035 will require high impact policy intervention to address permitting, interconnection and economic barriers to distributed solar deployment. Our roadmap details these regulatory and legislative policy proposals and calls for bold action to support near-term progress toward New York’s ambitious CLCPA requirements.
This report is the result of many months of hard work by every member of our team. Our campaign to achieve 20GW by 2035 is supported by a growing coalition of diverse organizations that want New York to reach its nation-leading clean energy and equity goals. I am incredibly proud of our team, and I'm fired up and ready to go to work executing this plan. Click the link to download the report: https://lnkd.in/eBK5G8eW
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'Florida has long ranked a distant third place behind California and Texas in installed solar, but it’s now installing more solar panels than any other state — despite a policy landscape that’s considerably more challenging than in other states.
The Sunshine State connected 2,499 megawatts of solar-generation capacity to the grid during the first half of 2023, blowing away the 1,648 megawatts added by California and the 1,292 megawatts added by Texas, according to the most recent U.S. Solar Market Insight report from the Solar Energy Industries Association and energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie.
It’s the first time the state has taken the No. 1 spot in solar installations, marking a potential clean energy inflection point for a populous state with a dirty grid. Florida gets just 6 percent of its electricity from solar and depends largely on fossil gas for the rest.'
Courtesy Canary Media Inc.#solar#nxtgen#cleanenergyrevolutionEric Wesoff Tyler Maxwell Jeremie BernardinSamantha CraigNathaniel Z.Erica McMillanNXTGEN Clean Energy Solutions
Have you heard the news?❗
Florida has overtaken California and Texas to become the top solar state in the US, according to a new report from the Solar Energy Industries Association and energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie.
Despite a somewhat complicated policy landscape, Florida connected a whopping 2,499 megawatts of solar-generation capacity to the grid during H1 2023, according to the latest U.S. Solar Market Insight report.
This has significantly eclipsed the contributions made by both California (1,648 MW) and Texas (1,292 MW).
Key Highlights:
- Around 86% of the state's new solar capacity was built by utilities.
- Florida Power & Light, the state’s largest power company, led the way by accounting for 1,769 MW.
- Florida has no renewable portfolio standard and doesn’t permit power-purchase agreements. Yet, the state still maintains a net metering policy.
Florida still has a lot of work to do to reach its full solar potential. However, the Sunshine State's solar boom is a sign that things are changing, and Florida is well-positioned to become a major leader in the clean energy transition.🌞
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"Florida’s solar ascendancy is the product of two familiar forces: the Inflation Reduction Act’s clean energy incentives and the stabilization of pandemic-strained supply chains. It has also occurred despite energy policies that lag behind other states. Florida doesn’t have a renewable portfolio standard and doesn’t allow power-purchase agreements — two policies that have accelerated investments in solar across the nation.
Solar policies in Florida have tended to favor utility-owned large-scale solar over residential and commercial rooftop power generation: Around 86 percent of the state’s solar installed in the first half of this year was built by utilities. The state’s largest power company, Florida Power & Light, accounted for 1,769 megawatts over that period, followed by Duke Energy, which connected 389 megawatts.
Despite the lack of a renewable portfolio standard, a ban on power-purchase agreements and the dominance of utility-scale solar, Florida does still have net metering, a policy that pays rooftop solar owners for the excess power they export to the electrical grid.
Solar-rich states such as California, Hawaii and Arizona have seen utility-led campaigns seeking to roll back net metering over the last few years. Claiming lost revenue and unfair cost shifts for their ratepayers, utilities often insist on lowering compensation rates for solar customers or adding fixed charges to customer bills.
Last year, Florida lawmakers proposed legislation that would destroy the value of net metering by imposing fixed charges and minimum bills for owners of residential solar systems.
These anti-net-metering efforts are typically supported by utilities, and that was certainly true of Florida Power & Light. Although this legislation favored by Florida utilities was passed, it was vetoed last April by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), who ascribed his decision to concerns over inflation and escalating energy bills.
Utilities have erected obstacles to growing Florida’s residential solar such as prolonged waits for interconnection, onerous insurance requirements and institutional recalcitrance, but rooftop solar owners in the state still added 332 megawatts of solar capacity during the first half of the year, making it the No. 2 spot in the country for home PV systems.
It’s not just Florida, Texas and California surging ahead in utility-scale solar. The solar market across the whole country is forecast to add 32 gigawatts of new capacity in 2023, almost tripling the record 13 gigawatts installed in 2021 and amounting to over half of new U.S. capacity in 2023, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The industry is rebounding from a difficult 2022 replete with trade conflicts, labor ethics issues and supply-chain challenges.
Thanks to this year’s surge, Florida now has a total of 12,612 megawatts of solar connected to the grid. It still has a long way to go in order to catch up with Texas’ 18,801 megawatts and ..."
Founder at NXTGEN Clean Energy Solutions |Sustainability Consulting + Solar + Wind + Battery Storage + Electric Vehicle Charging + Solar Light Poles | Helping businesses improve the bottom line and the environment
'Florida has long ranked a distant third place behind California and Texas in installed solar, but it’s now installing more solar panels than any other state — despite a policy landscape that’s considerably more challenging than in other states.
The Sunshine State connected 2,499 megawatts of solar-generation capacity to the grid during the first half of 2023, blowing away the 1,648 megawatts added by California and the 1,292 megawatts added by Texas, according to the most recent U.S. Solar Market Insight report from the Solar Energy Industries Association and energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie.
It’s the first time the state has taken the No. 1 spot in solar installations, marking a potential clean energy inflection point for a populous state with a dirty grid. Florida gets just 6 percent of its electricity from solar and depends largely on fossil gas for the rest.'
Courtesy Canary Media Inc.#solar#nxtgen#cleanenergyrevolutionEric Wesoff Tyler Maxwell Jeremie BernardinSamantha CraigNathaniel Z.Erica McMillanNXTGEN Clean Energy Solutions
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FLORIDA: The #Sunshine State connected 2,499 megawatts of solar-generation capacity to the #grid during the first half of 2023, blowing away the 1,648 megawatts added by California and the 1,292 megawatts added by Texas, according to the most recent U.S. Solar Market Insight report from the Solar Energy Industries Association and energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie.
Midway through 2023, the installed community solar market reached nearly 6 GW, with projects in 41 states and Washington, D.C. A helpful driver for even more community solar to get adopted nationwide might be just adding energy storage. Pairing energy storage with community solar doesn’t have much impact on the solar project’s design or installation, but it can push the solar project over the finish line.
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