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September 4, 2024

State and Local Policy

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NYSERDA Can’t Meet Deadline to Design New REC Plan

New York’s clean energy agency needs more time to draw up the renewable energy certificate program for two major renewable energy transmission projects.

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Mass., RI, Conn. Sign Coordination Agreement for OSW Procurement
Mass. Gov. Healey stressed the importance of regional collaboration and the potential of the agreement to benefit ratepayers.
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Northeast Stakeholders Push Transmission Planning, Siting Reform

Speakers at Raab Associates’ New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable emphasized the importance of transmission planning to ensure the grid can handle increased amounts of variable clean energy and higher demand from electrification.

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Park City Wind to Cancel PPAs, Exit OSW Pipeline
Avangrid announced an agreement with two Connecticut electric distribution companies to terminate power purchase agreements for its Park City Wind proposal, the latest in a series of setbacks for offshore wind in New England.
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NJ to Add 400 EV Chargers with $12.7M Investment
New Jersey awarded $12.7 million in grants to install electric vehicle chargers at 405 new locations, including multiunit dwellings and tourism hot spots.
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NY Makes Down Payment on School Bus Electrification
New York state has issued the roadmap for its first-in-the-nation school bus electrification program and is preparing to draw the first tranche from a $500 million pot of money to start carrying it out.
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NJ Extends Third Solicitation OSW Deadline for ‘Contingent’ Projects
New Jersey agreed to extend the deadline by which developers with solicitations pending in other states can drop out of its third solicitation.
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Michigan Senate Passes First Renewable Bill; Talks on Package Continue
The first bill in a package of climate legislation won Michigan Senate approval while talks continued on the other proposals.
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First Wash. Ferry Being Converted to Electric-diesel Hybrid

Washington has begun the first overhaul of a diesel ferry into an electric-fuel hybrid, with the converted boat expected to be operating by September 2024.

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DOE Looks to Build Clean Energy Park at Hanford Site
The Department of Energy wants to convert 30 square miles of the state of Washington’s heavily contaminated Hanford Site into a clean technology park, doesn’t know what type of clean tech it wants there.

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