updated 8/26/2026
NYPA Conferral Process
Under the 2023 RAPID Act the New York Power Authority (NYPA) has been charged with a more prominent role in advancing New York's energy plan. A powerful combination of big environmental organizations successfully lobbied for the law based on its frustration with the slow pace of renewable energy development in the state and its perennial climate alarmism. However, NYPA is unlikely to be so ideologically driven.
An electric grid powered only by wind, solar and batteries does not work. There is no pathway to decarbonization without increasing nuclear power. Nuclear power is an existing technology with a very favorable safety record that produces electricity all the time. It does not need massive new investments for transmission upgrades, backup power (supplied by fossil fuels), and land (mostly forests and farmland). Wind, solar and batteries need all these things, making their costs impossible to bear in the long run. The effort to power electric grids with renewables alone is breaking grids around the country. Society needs reliable zero-emissions electricity, not intermittent electricity that varies with the weather. Extreme weather knocks wind and solar offline, not nuclear.
NYPA's Conferral Process is much appreciated. It appears to be a much more successful effort to reach out to stakeholders in the state's energy transition effort than anything that has come before it.
Our 2023 comment letter to NYPA is here. The 2026 Conferral Process is now underway.
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