As climate action on a federal level is now all but impossible and New York City recovers once again from being cloaked by wildfire smoke, New Yorkers will call on Governor Kathy Hochul to lead the way and build 15 gigawatts(GW) of renewable energy.
New Yorkers will rally directly before a public hearing being held by the New York Power Authority (NYPA) on its recently released draft plan to implement the Build Public Renewables Act (BPRA). Advocates and electeds who fought for and won the legislation are saying NYPA’s draft plan does not go far enough to meet state climate goals and are calling on Hochul to send the plan back to the drawing board.
The speakers at the rally will include Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, Assemblymember Phara Souffrant-Forrest, State Senator Jabari Brisport, Jennifer Gaboury(PSC-CUNY First VP), South Bronx Unite and more to be announced.
The event takes place at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Gerald W. Lynch Theatre, 524 West 59th St. , New York, NY 10019 US
The vent take place on Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 5:00PM – Rally 6:00PM – Public Hearings
After a powerful, four year-long campaign, New Yorkers won the most transformational climate and green jobs bill in the nation in May 2023 with the passage of the BPRA through the New York State Budget.
Since the bill’s passage, advocates and legislators have been warning that for-profit renewable energy developers will continue to drop projects and the state will not be able to meet its mandated goal of 70% renewable energy by 2030 unless NYPA steps up and builds at least 15GW. NYPA’s draft plan proposes to build just a paltry 3.5GW of renewable energy with the expectation that many of those projects will not move forward, and very few of those projects are planned for the Hudson Valley and downstate New York, where electricity demand is greatest.
It doesn’t have to be this way. FDR created NYPA to lead the way on revolutionizing our energy system, and NYPA can reclaim this leadership by embracing a bold vision for public power in the 21st century.
NYPA must build at least 15 GW of renewables by 2030 to:
- Ensure that we meet our climate goals
- Lower utility bills for New Yorkers who need relief the most
- Create 25,000 green union jobs
- Close super-polluting peaker plants on the timeline required by law
“For decades, peaker plants have driven up rates of asthma and heart disease in low-income communities. For us, the transition to clean energy isn’t just about the future — it’s about life-or-death situations right now.” said Andrea Johnson of NYC-DSA Ecosocialists. “We encourage you to come demand that Governor Hochul commit to stop poisoning our air. The private developers haven’t moved us forward, so it’s up to NYPA to build the public renewables we need to shut down the smokestacks once and for all.”
Public Power NY
The Public Power NY Coalition is a statewide movement of community and advocacy organizations fighting for an environmentally sustainable energy system that’s also racially, socially, and economically just. We believe energy and a habitable planet are human rights, and that we need to avert the climate crisis by eliminating the use of fossil fuels and transitioning to 100 percent renewable energy. We aim to accomplish these goals by taking over our for-profit energy system and bringing it under public, not-for-profit, local, and democratic ownership and management.
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