New York Sets Sights on Energy Efficiency and Storage with New Targets, Incentives
Last week, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced that the New York State Public Service Commission approved two initiatives to increase New York’s energy efficiency and energy storage targets.
The new energy efficiency target for investor-owned utilities will more than double utility energy efficiency progress by 2025, reducing the state’s energy consumption 185 trillion British thermal units (TBtu) of cumulative annual site energy consumption by 2025, which the state commission said is the equivalent of fueling and powering 1.8 million homes.