“Let us set the goal: 100 percent clean power by 2040,” the governor said in his speech. “Highest in the United States of America.”
As described in the State of the State’s Social, Economic and Racial Justice Agenda, this “globally unprecedented ramp-up” of renewables under the goal will include as follows:
- Quadrupling the offshore wind target to 9 GW by 2035, up from 2.4 GW by 2030;
- Doubling distributed solar deployment to 6 GW by 2025, up from 3 GW by 2023;
- More than doubling new large-scale, land-based wind and solar resources through the CES;
- “Maximizing the contributions and potential” of existing renewable energy projects; and
- Deploying 3 GW of energy storage by 2030.
To further spur the offshore wind industry, the agenda also includes investing $200 million in New York port infrastructure, establishing a New York State Advisory Council on Offshore Wind Economic and Workforce Development, investing in an offshore wind training center, and initiating an effort to facilitate the development of an offshore wind transmission grid.
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