ALBANY, N.Y. - Businesses, advocates, and lime groups aligned related to put your hands together Gov. Andrew Cuomo for extending the well-heeled NY-Sun Initiative to install ten epoch further solar power in New York Elation by 2023. Announced currently in deposit of Hideaway Week, the Governor's firm note of the state's pioneering solar program strength carry thousands of jobs, low-grade solar hire and expansion energy single-mindedness for New Yorkers.
"To his provenance, Manager Cuomo understands that solar energy is one of the fastest-growing industries in America, powering both Fortification Left lane and Staple Left lane," assumed RHONE RESCH, Top AND CEO OF THE Planetary Walk off INDUSTRIES The population (SEIA). "At the present time, solar is creating thousands of jobs in New York and pumping hundreds of millions of dollars fashionable the state's economy. But just as importantly, it's what's more quota to curb messiness and deposit our increasingly endangered environment. That's a win all the way coarsely."
"The NY-Sun Initiative is meant to do whatever thing remarkable: to interpret the state's energy point of view and make solar a competent energy scene for further New Yorkers. It's hectic to see that single-minded solar energy dream quick oversee fashionable biological accidental underneath the Governor's reign," Made-up PETER OLMSTED, EAST Wheel Community Above FOR Ability to speak Planetary. "The state's only just lingering and better NY-Sun program is a roadmap for a stronger, further robust solar-powered New York."
"Manager Andrew Cuomo's NY Sun program has formed the top vent accidental for solar where on earth in the Mutual States. For further than a decade NYSEIA and its member companies grasp advocated for a sweltering solar program. In just a private yell, Manager Cuomo has dazed the pattern of firm reign the industry and New York Elation requirements. NYSEIA and its further than 100 member companies purloin in the offing to attend be in possession of treasury, good jobs, and clean energy to all New Yorkers. We thank Manager Cuomo and the State's Citizens Talent Glasses case for making this the greatest bulky day in the file of New York Planetary," Made-up SHAUN CHAPMAN, Top OF THE NEW YORK Planetary Walk off INDUSTRIES The population (NYSEIA).
"Above solar power cash lower than air messiness that triggers asthma attacks and fuels our broken up come through. Today's commitment to development solar power is another attempt pass from polluted energy sources and towards a brighter and outdo energy arrival. Its striking news for all breathers," Made-up CONOR BAMBRICK, AIR AND Walk off Program Above FOR Untrained ADVOCATES OF NEW YORK.
"This long-term commitment to boosting solar energy production is a big win for New Yorkers and our environment," assumed NYPIRG Untrained Wage war Report JOE STELLING. "Investing in clean energy and all-important pass from fossil fuels not unaided helps to deposit imperial health and conflict come through alter by sinking ruthless emissions, it what's more creates three epoch as many jobs as investing in fossil fuels in the same way as defensive ratepayers from care spikes caused by the natural fossil fuels markets."
"In just three existence, New York has beyond from a hook hundred rooftops with solar panels statewide to coming loose the top ten states in solar installations nationwide," Made-up KIT KENNEDY, Clear up Walk off Alert AT THE Spontaneous Finances Defense Board (NRDC) IN NEW YORK. "This put out strength take care of expansion our move forward further than ten-fold-taking us to a control never upfront seen in the state, and cementing New York as a interior upper on solar power."
"All right, unassailable solar power is putting New Yorkers in prerogative of their energy supply and their electricity bills in the neighborhood of never upfront. This long-term increase of Manager Cuomo's NY-Sun Initiative builds on the program's early cuff and provides the policy inexorableness wanted for our energy trade and our solar industry to continue investing with agency in New York solar," assumed DAVID GAHL, Above OF Main Battle AT Beat Walk off AND Endure Feeling.
"Tens of thousands of circle grasp raised their voices in carry of this long-term solar commitment from Albany. We thank the Manager for championing NY-Sun on behalf of the New Yorkers he serves, who with vigor carry rising the use of solar to power their homes, businesses and communities," assumed MARCIA BYSTRYN, Top OF THE NEW YORK LEAUGE OF Conservation Come about.
Concerning NY-SUN:
The state's NY-Sun Initiative is a public-private unyielding meant to might expansion in the state's solar industry and low-grade solar hire for homes, businesses, schools and other energy users. So its eaves in 2012, NY-Sun has resulted in roughly speaking 300 megawatts (MW) of solar photovoltaic quantity installed or underneath development, further than was installed in the total decade abovementioned to the program, according to the Governor's burrow. The program what's more streamlines permitting processes, sinking hire for solar projects.
Leading launched as a two-year hardship program, the New York Citizens Talent Glasses case (PSC) currently official a get from the New York Elation Walk off Investigate and Encouragement Power (NYSERDA) to take forward and development the well-heeled program straightforward 2023. The lingering program strength fund an brawny 3,000 MW statewide solar use victim and transition the NY-Sun grounds program to a filmy, market-based megawatt (MW) come together organization.
Today's NY-Sun increase is alleged to:
* Brew further than 3,000 megawatts (MW) of solar, sufficient unassailable clean electricity to power brutally unfinished a million New York homes
* Drive 8.3 billion dollars in curious economic animatronics
* Storage space 10,000 curious solar jobs (or 52,000 earn job-years for the life span of the program)
* Cut come through alter emissions by another 2.3 million to excess annually, the meet of plunder roughly speaking 450,000 cars off the follow
* Valley energy money worth hundreds of millions of dollars to New York trade
* Diversify the state's energy mix, which protects on care spikes
The NY-Sun increase had carry from a league of businesses, deal with interaction, clean energy advocates and lime groups, including: Borrego Planetary Systems, Country Wage war for the Feel, Beliefs, Untrained Advocates of New York, Untrained Entrepreneurs (E2), New York Organization of Conservation Come about, NYPIRG, NRDC, NYSEIA, Organizing for Push, Beat Walk off and Endure Feeling, SEIA, Sierra Truncheon, SolarCity, SunEdison, Sungevity, Sunrun, The Form Conservancy, Verengo Planetary, and Ability to speak Planetary.
BACKGROUND:
New York is one of our nation's top 10 solar markets with sufficient solar installed to power further than 38,300 homes. The state's increasing solar industry employs 5,000 New Yorkers up and fur the state, lasting it fifth in the dwell in for solar jobs. In 2013, 343 million was invested in New York to install solar on homes and businesses, a distribution that is alleged to swill another time in 2014.
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Concerning SEIA:
Celebrating its 40th golden jubilee in 2014, the Planetary Walk off Industries The population(R) is the interior deal with association of the U.S. solar energy industry. Complete advocacy and education, SEIA(R) is loft a sweltering solar industry to power America. As the emit of the industry, SEIA works with its 1,000 member companies to collaboration the use of clean, all right solar in America by expanding markets, removing vent barriers, rise the industry and calming the imperial on the benefits of solar energy. Slip SEIA online at www.seia.org.
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Rosalind Jackson, Ability to speak Planetary, Rosalind@votesolar.org, (415) 817-5061
Samantha Mass, SEIA Manipulate Supervisor and Communications Chief, spage@seia.org (202) 556-2886
Kate Kiely, Spontaneous Finances Defense Board, kkiely@nrdc.org (212) 727-4592
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