Renewable developers and environmental groups want Gov. Kathy Hochul to take some near-term steps to help the bruised industry.
Their list of recommendations, obtained by POLITICO, includes stabilizing tax assessments for renewable projects, increasing the procurement of renewables each year, accelerated permitting, tax breaks for commercial storage projects and increasing the state’s goal for building distributed solar projects. The industry has previously raised many of the requests.
The Alliance of Clean Energy New York, the state’s main lobbying group for renewable developers, recently sent the list of 10 recommendations to the governor’s office.
A press conference about the requests with environmental group leaders who are also on the board of ACE — New York League of Conservation Voters, Sierra Club and Environmental Advocates NY — was planned ahead of the group’s regular fall conference earlier this week. But it was indefinitely postponed due to an unspecified “scheduling issue.”
