9.25.24 “Climate Week NYC Event: Greening New York’s Grid by 2030”

New York’s Climate Law stated we should reach 70% renewable energy by 2030, and we always knew this would be a difficult task. New York underwent a massive shift to renewable energy, and despite tremendous progress, there were still many roadblocks that kept projects from reaching construction and operation. We heard from experts on why we needed to dig in on our commitment to the transition and what policies we needed to implement to get us there. We focused on successes and lessons learned over the last four years and laid out specific ways the public could support these policies. Every megawatt of clean, renewable energy that came online and served New York’s power grid was a win for New Yorkers, and we needed to do everything we could to deploy as many renewables as possible by 2030.

In our three-part program, we began with a keynote presentation on the efforts made by our elected officials and the renewable energy industry to build projects in an expedited, yet responsible manner, followed by presentations that focused on how distributed energy (residential and community solar, and battery storage) would play an important part in our transition. Our main panel discussion focused on why this transition should be a top priority in New York, with an emphasis on environmental justice and the economic and health benefits of our renewable transition. At the end of the program, a light lunch was served.