New York reaches 8 GW of distributed solar capacity

New York reaches 8 GW of distributed solar capacity

Tony Smith, chair of the Virginia Distributed Solar Alliance, told Utility Dive that other states can learn from New York’s policies that “reduce soft costs, provide investment certainty, and remove utility-specific interconnection barriers.”

Governor Hochul: New York State Has Installed 8 Gigawatts of Distributed Solar Energy - News & Photo Features

Solar panels on a Great Neck, Long Island, home. New York’s NY-Sun Program provides incentives to make solar more affordable and accessible to homes, businesses and communities while lowering their energy costs and providing improved efficiency and reliability to New York’s electric grid. © Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com As the United States has reached a point where data centers powering Artificial Intelligence consumer more electricity t…