Among the many ways New York is still paying for the erratic-but-forceful leadership of ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the soaring expense and growing unreliability of the electric grid likely tops the list.
Cuomo forced the shutdown of the Indian Point nuclear plant even as he rammed through the insane 2019 “Climate Leadership” law that demands an impossibly radical and expensive shift to wind and solar to produce most of the state’s power.
Fully embraced by Gov. Hochul, the climate law insists the state get 70% of its energy from non-carbon-fuels by 2030 — and 100% by 2040.
Yet the Indian Point shutdown pushed it farther from that goal: Those nuke plants had provided 25% of New York City’s power.
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Yes, the plant’s owners “voluntary” agreed to close them, but Cuomo greeted that news by bragging, “I have personally been trying to close it down for 15 years,” as state attorney general and then gov.
And while Cuomo’s team had predicted the shutdown would add less than $50 a year to electric bills, the jump proved closer to $500, notes a new report from The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity.