In Brief: New York’s Plan to Build Public Renewable Energy

In Brief: New York’s Plan to Build Public Renewable Energy

New York has ambitious climate goals — and is significantly behind on meeting them. That’s in part because the state isn’t building renewable energy fast enough. But New York has a unique tool in its clean energy toolbox: the New York Power Authority, or NYPA, a public institution that supplies a significant portion of the state’s power thanks to two major hydroelectric dams and a network of transmission lines that spans the entire state. Two ye…