New York regulators on Thursday launched a review of multiple state clean energy programs, with a particular focus on energy efficiency and electrification efforts being made to aid low-income utility customers.
The New York State Public Service Commission said its review will include utility efforts under the New Efficiency: New York, or NENY, program as well as the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s Clean Energy Fund, or CEF. Combined, the two portfolios of energy programs represent nearly $10 billion of customer funding, the PSC said.
The commission directed Department of Public Service staff to develop a report assessing the energy efficiency and building electrification efforts to date, and to request information from stakeholders about how the programs need to evolve.
The energy programs support…