Last year, Texas built dozens of wind and solar farms — enough to power the states of Delaware and Hawaiʻi combined. California built enough to power every home in San Francisco, twice over. Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Kansas each built enough to power hundreds of thousands of homes.
New York built three wind and solar farms, about enough to power one small city. In 2019 and 2020, it built none.
Yet it has committed to a faster green transition than almost any other state, pledging to get 70 percent of its electricity from renewables by 2030, more than double their current share. To meet that mandate, New York needs to build 100 times as much large-scale solar in the next five years as it did in the last 10. It needs to kickstart battery storage, multiplying capacity more than fiftyfold. It needs to build a brand new offshore wind industry, turning plans on paper into one of…
New York Needs to Build Wind and Solar Energy Ten Times Faster
