Not too long ago, Upstate New York’s three nuclear power plants were on the verge of shutting down. They simply could no longer sell their electricity for enough to cover the cost of generating it. This April, however, electricity consumers in New York will begin paying to keep those plants online while New York makes […]
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New York power policy, practices at odds
New York’s energy system is making a complex, tense, and urgent shift away from fossil fuels toward cleaner, renewable sources of power. That’s the official line, anyway. And the shift is supposed to accelerate over the next few years. A new state policy requires utilities to get half of their electricity from renewables such as […]
