HOW CAN WE BEAT THIS? 

It is critical that letters/email get sent to Hochul and legislators in advance of the 4th/5th summit in Syracuse. Sierra and other big greens are sending busloads demanding NY continue pursuing its flawed energy plan. 

 Pasted below are paragraph-form talking points. Senders can add their own as well. Important to include a personal detail or two at top and bottom of the letter, and it is ok to repeat the message -- reject massive expensive unreliable solar and on/offshore wind, revise CLCPA, etc.
Dennis

Time for New York to make a new energy plan. Indications that the plan has failed from NYSERDA, the Comptroller, the PSC, the NYISO, and the Business Council and Labor provide an opportunity to make a new plan, based not on slogans but on sound engineering and responsible fiscal policy. 

       The year before New York passed the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), Ontario repealed a similar “green energy act”. The act fudged numbers, exacerbated the divide between the rural north and populous south, and caused skyrocketing electricity prices. Instead of covering forest and farmland with solar and wind, Ontario will instead expand nuclear generation. Maybe New York could learn something from Ontario.

       This week, Governor Hochul has called for an energy summit. Maybe the State will revise its disastrous CLCPA and instead listen to energy experts.  The Big Green organizations do not want that to happen. Sierra Club and others are sending busloads of protesters to Syracus demanding New York continue its million-acre buildout of solar and wind, and that Hochul ignore evidence that the plan is failing.

       In recent weeks, NYSERDA reports have indicated that decarbonization targets in CLCPA will not be met.  New York will not manage 70% renewable capacity by 2030, even though it has denied upstate communities’ fair taxes, home rule of law, and environmental protection to accelerate solar and wind installations. The State Comptroller criticized state energy plans finding they were not supported by fiscal analysis and that the Public Service Commission has used flawed data in its planning.

        The grid operator, the NYISO, has cautioned of a narrowing capacity margin for the next decade if New York continues efforts to replace baseload generators with solar and wind. NYISO projects possible blackouts in metro NYC next year as the region faces 0.5GW capacity shortfall.

       1.2 million New Yorkers are currently in arrears on rate payments. But the proverbial dung has not hit the fan yet. The state approved offshore wind at a strike price triple current wholesale energy costs and utilities will pass on the cost of the thousands of miles of new transmission for solar/wind to ratepayers.

       The plan relies on tripling energy imports -- to make it look reliable -- and exports -- to pretend we can sell excess summer solar so the plan looks economical. But the North American Energy Reliability Corp (NERC) has warned that energy imports may not be available. And despite the largest battery on earth California dumped 3TWh of solar last year. They could not save it or give it away.  NERC warns that the two biggest threats to the bulk power system are (1) a bad energy plan and (2) changes made to the grid to support a bad plan. 

       State planners could have seen the future.  California and Germany are respectively 20 and 30 years ahead of New York in efforts to decarbonize their grids with intermittent solar and wind. Californians pay almost double the national average per KWh. They face blackouts when energy imports do not arrive. California obtained EPA waivers to build more gas plants and has not significantly cut reliance on fossil fuel. Germany mines and burns soft coal, imports US LNG, and relies on nuclear-generated electricity from France. Germans pay twice what the French do for electricity.

       Solar and wind are not “cheap” when 20-year replacement, landfill costs, new transmission lines, lost farmland and forest, expensive batteries, and continued reliance on gas are figured into the cost.

We are calling all of our elected officials to stand with us and represent us in Syracuse ! 

Congressman Anthony D'Esposito Assemblyman Ari Brown Senator Patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick
Missy Miller Brendan Finn
Michael Reinhart John Bendo Roy Lester Daniel Creighton Laura Gillen Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman Patrick Mullaney for County Legislature 

@everyone TAG AN ELECTED OFFICIAL you know should be representing our LONG ISLAND COMMUNITIES!