STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Governor Kathy Hochul has proposed to delay key deadlines within New York’s 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), arguing that sticking to the legislation’s original timeline would impose “crushing costs” on New York residents and businesses.
Her proposal aims to alter the timeline of the law, which was enacted in 2019 and dubbed the most aggressive climate change legislation in the nation. But at least one key element of the CLCPA is not changing: The state’s ambitious battery energy storage goal of 6 gigawatts (GW) within the next four years.
“Battery energy storage would not be impacted by a shift in the timeline for the CLCPA,” the governor’s office noted in a statement when asked whether energy storage would be affected by the proposed shift. “Projects can proceed pending all needed approvals, including local permits.”…