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As power demand rises, clean power developers and New York state authorities are rushing to accelerate solar and wind projects before tax credits expire.   November 25 - New York's accelerated clean power tender highlights a wider push by U.S. developers to accelerate projects that are deep in development in order to gain federal tax credits before they are slashed under Trump administration policies.   Announced by New York Governor Kathy Hochul in September, the solicitation will prioritize shovel-ready projects to ensure they qualify for federal tax credits that will expire earlier than planned following Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Solar and wind projects must begin construction by July 2026 or enter service by the end of 2027 to qualify for the tax credits.   Solar and wind power projects with advanced  permitting  and  grid connection  agreements are most likely to be awarded in the tender, held by the New York State Energy Research and De...

  Poll after poll shows the issue falling in status as a political priority, in America and abroad. T he   world’s treatment of global warming as a top-tier political priority may be subsiding, if recent polls are any indication. A  recent Swedish survey  highlights how “environment/climate concerns” declined from a top issue for 51 percent of young women and 34 percent of young men in 2019 to just 15 and 13 percent, respectively, in 2025. Swedish kids’ interest in climate also cratered — once considered a top issue, it’s now only in the bottom half of the 23 concerns listed, well behind health, education, and safety. That’s a massive change for the famously progressive country — the same nation which spawned climate activist Greta Thunberg, who herself has  since moved onto other issues . The same result is backed up in other polls. Interest in global warming as a “top issue” in the entire European Union fell from 35 percent of all voters in 2019 to just 1 perc...

  The Energy Department is eliminating the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations and the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. WASHINGTON—The Energy Department is eliminating two of its biggest offices that channeled billions of dollars into clean-energy projects, another step in President Trump’s efforts to put a chokehold on federal funds for technologies designed to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. The DOE is cutting the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations and the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, according to an organizational chart the agency unveiled Thursday as the Trump administration moves to further unwind Biden-era climate policies and advance fossil-fuel projects. The department is “aligning its operations to restore common sense to energy policy, lower costs for American families and businesses and ensure the responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright said in a statement. Functions of the energy-e...

  Is energy reality mugging Democrats? Maybe so. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul this month approved a natural gas pipeline opposed by the climate lobby, and last week Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro bailed out of a cap-and-tax program. Al Gore, call your office. Mr. Shapiro showed his pragmatic streak when he used a budget deal with Republican legislators as an excuse to pull out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. A dozen or so states in the Northeast have joined this climate suicide pact, which involves taxing the CO2 emissions of fossil-fuel power plants. States can then spend the revenue on green climate boondoggles. The goal is to raise costs on fossil-fuel plants and make them less competitive in wholesale markets against wind and solar power. Fossil-fuel plants might then have to shut down. Climate activists will cheer, but the result will be a less reliable electric grid and higher rates for consumers. Blackouts and soaring utility bills in his st...

Two years ago, in November 2023, my friend Roger Caiazza and I attended a conference put on by a local news source called City & State. They called their conference the “Clean Energy New York Summit: The Path to Sustainability.” I called it the Krazy Klimate Konference, and I wrote about it in a post on November 18, 2023 titled  “At The New York Krazy Klimate Konference.” Last year both Roger and I skipped the Konference, and this year Roger again wisely decided to stay home in Syracuse. But I was morbidly curious as to how this crowd of climate grifters and subsidy farmers would react to the rapid derailment of their gravy train during the first ten months of President Trump’s second term. And for me, the venue was only about a 10 minute subway ride away, at the southern tip of Manhattan. So I rounded up my daughter Jane (who had to trek in from Queens) to accompany me, and off we went. This year they slightly re-titled the Konference to  “Energy Infrastructure Summit: Ne...

The claim that China’s economy is “increasingly driven by clean technologies,” doesn’t match the reality. According to the latest Statistical Review of World Energy, hydrocarbons provided 88% of China’s total energy needs last year, that’s slightly above the global average of 87%. The US gets 83% of its energy from hydrocarbons.   As shown above, China got 21 times more energy from coal, oil, and natural gas last year than from solar and wind . If, as Ember claimed a few months ago that China is “reshaping the global energy landscape,” it sure is taking its sweet time about it.  Coal alone provides more than 14 times as much energy to the Chinese economy as wind and solar combined. That inconvenient fact didn’t get a mention by Ember. Xi has made it clear that he wants China to be self-sufficient in energy, food, and strategic elements, declaring, “ The energy rice bowl must be held in our own hands . Increased gas production is a central part of Xi’s “rice bowl” strategy. Ove...

POLITICO Weekly New York & New Jersey Energy   By  MARIE J. FRENCH  and  MONA ZHANG     11/17/2025 10:00 AM EST . HOCHUL EMBRACES GAS  — POLITICO’s Marie J. French and Mona Zhang:  Facing a tough reelection battle next year, Gov. Kathy Hochul is steering a monumental pivot on energy policy. Hochul approved a new gas pipeline championed by President Donald Trump and cut a deal that will keep a  gas-fueled cryptocurrency miner running  for five more years.  The two decisions have sparked outrage from the progressive environmental wing of her party — with three climate-focused groups  pointedly endorsing her primary opponent  last week. “She did not just approve a fossil fuel project. She made a moral choice,” Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado, who is primarying Hochul, said “New Yorkers deserve a governor who does not treat the climate crisis as a PR problem, but as a test of moral leadership.” With Trump’s antipathy toward renew...

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has withdrawn his state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, leaving the state with the fourth-highest emissions in the country without a significant climate policy. The cap-and-trade market included 10 other states, including all of New England, New York, and some Mid-Atlantic states. After a two-year legal fight over the state’s decision to quit the carbon-cutting alliance through regulatory fiat, Virginia’s Republicans governor successfully  exited  the group. But, as  E&E News  noted, Shapiro is the first governor from any party to sign legislation pulling his state out of RGGI. The millions generated from RGGI were earmarked for clean energy and transportation projects in the commonwealth. Philadelphia’s transit system is teetering on the brink of a budget crisis, alongside the bus and light-rail network in San Francisco and Chicago,  Heatmap’s Emily Pontecorvo wrote  last month. Shapiro, widely considered...

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