Wednesday, March 12, 2008

NY Unplugged?

The promise of lower energy bills laid out in Governor Spitzer’s 2007 energy address seems unlikely to be fulfilled, given the current policy prescriptions being pursued by his administration as well as the state Legislature. Consequently, the New York economy will continue to be hampered by unnecessarily high power costs coupled with an increasingly fragile transmission and delivery system.

The Spitzer administration should refashion the Renewable Portfolio Standard to allow energy companies, not state bureaucrats, to decide how to reach clean energy goals. The current RPS allows NYSERDA to dole out millions of dollars to favored and politically connected businesses of its choosing. A better RPS would set targets for clean energy production and allow utilities latitude to decide what mix of fuels could best meet those targets.

Energy-02-08-2.pdf

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