Back to the beginning of this year, I published a post titled “March to Climate Utopia”. The post notes that everything about New York State’s vision for a zero-emission economy and “climate leadership” is collapsing.
Its contracts to replace fossil fuels with vast offshore wind farms have been completely cancelled (most) or reconsidered at higher and uneconomical prices (minority).
Its two contract facilities produce “green” hydrogen to support intermittent winds, and solar energy has encountered financial difficulties and may fail.
Its large contract high-capacity transmission line brings imaginary north wind and solar power to the Xiaguo market, which has also been cancelledthere is no statement of reasons, but it is almost certainly because economics is not feasible. …
In just a few weeks since that position, you would think that the situation with the New York Utopian climate program is almost impossible to get worse.
But in fact, the situation have Get worse – worse.
On January 20, President Trump took office and immediately began to remove subsidies for federal support and “green” energy.
By the executive order of January 20 this year, Trump “temporarily” withdrew all foreign shelves from leasing wind power projects.
This seems the least popular, though perhaps not all, in New York's offshore wind program. (Although pauses in the lease are considered “temporary”, There is no promise for the lease to be restored forever.).
Also on January 20, Trump signed another executive order entitled “Release American Energy.” In Section 7, all subsidies to “green” energy projects are ordered to be immediately stopped under the Inflation Reduction Act or the Infrastructure Investment and Employment Act.
All institutions should immediately suspend the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (Public Law 117-169) or the Infrastructure Investment and Employment Act (Public Law No. 117-58). . . and shall review the procedures, policies and plans for its issuance of grants, loans, contracts or any other financial expenditures for such grant funds to be consistent with the laws outlined in Section 2 of this Order and their respective laws.
New York is likely to rely on billions of dollars under these actions to support wind, solar, gearbox and green hydrogen programs.
Again, this EO pause is only “temporary”, but most likely, the funds will never come back during President Trump, if any.
Meanwhile, New York State's Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act 2019 (Climate Act) is still in the book.
The regulation orders a complete restructuring of New York's energy economy to reach “net zero” greenhouse gas emissions by 2050,most By 2030, the first deadline for 70% of electricity generation in “renewable energy” is the first deadline.
They never had a reliable plan to achieve this, but they pretended they would do it most of the time when it came to large offshore wind power. Now that was dead, they didn't even have a false plan.
Meanwhile, New York City's “Local Method 97” is also preserved in the books.
That's the regulation requires that all residential buildings over 25,000 square feet be converted to electric heat by 2030 – The state's Climate Act authorized 70% of electricity from “renewable energy” that same year Most of them can only come from non-existent wind and solar energy.
So, by 2030, our electricity demand has increased significantly, while the state demands the removal of our existing reliable power generation without a reliable plan to replace it.
Back in 2022, a group of Queens co-operative owners and boards filed a case in New York State Court in an attempt to make the city’s local law 97 declared to be declared “preempt” by the state climate bill. The case is named Glen Oaks Village owner, Inc. v. New York City.
Since its inception, the case has been bound in motions and appeals.
Initially, the trial court (in New York, we call the Supreme Court) dismissed the case, but did not seize it. However, the Appeal Division, the First Division, revoked and ordered the trial court to consider whether there was a preemptive move.
Instead of returning to the trial court, the city decided to try to appeal our Supreme Court appeals court to restore the firing. The case just ended its briefing in the court.
On Friday, my co-advisor CAM MacDonald and I filed a friend of court summary on behalf of a group of parties in this case, which included some co-op owners and a nonprofit, reliable, reliable energy called New Yorkers.
A friend of the court summary The Climate Act and Local Methods Law No. 97 are in an irreconcilable conflict because the state has no plans or capacity to provide electricity that can comply with the city's Local Methods 97 through the Climate Act.
Here is a sentence from our summary of the argument:
Uncoordinated [of the two laws] A simultaneous task derived from the law 97 and the Climate Act. First, Local Method 97 stipulates that large residential buildings in New York City will be converted to electric heat by 2030. Meanwhile, the Climate Act requires 70% to come from “renewable energy” in 2030.
The latter authorization requires intermittent wind and solar power generation to replace the always available fossil fuel power generation capacity, which is unable to provide a continuous supply of electricity. Intermittently threatens buildings that convert heat into electricity due to long periods of winter death.
The Climate Act and the “Scope Plan” established under it do not include reliable plans to provide other reliable electricity needed to heat all large New York City buildings, as authorized by local law 97.
I don't have a link to this court profile yet, but I plan to update this post when the links are available.
The Court of Appeals is here to save New York City and its residents from their foolishness. It may or may not take advantage of the opportunity.
If the pass is passed and the dismissal of the case is resumed, it will still fail within a few years at most. It's just that in this case, many people are hurt.
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