1.18.21 - New York to build miles of new power lines in renewables push
'New York state is forging ahead with hundreds of miles of new high-voltage power lines, the kind of push that clean-energy advocates would like to see copied nationwide.'
'Long-distance transmission is an essential if unglamorous part of strategies to replace fossil-fuel power plants with non-emitting sources. Large solar and onshore wind farms sit on rural land and need a conduit to energy-hungry cities.'
'Targeting 70 per cent renewable electricity by 2030, New York has one of the most aggressive climate laws in the US. It could provide a template for Joe Biden’s plan to remove carbon from US power by 2035. The president-elect picked New York climate policy chairman Ali Zaidi as his deputy national climate adviser, a sign of the state’s influence.'