Here is your chance to help positively influence the direction of clean energy in New York: there is still time for you to submit written comment on the New York State Draft Energy Plan. The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), passed in 2019 set clean energy guidelines for our state, in part to attain 70% of our energy production by 2030 with no greenhouse gas emissions. The Scoping Plan passed three years ago was an excellent plan and gave concrete ways to implement that goal. The current Draft Energy Plan, however, gets rid of most of the Scoping Plan's specific recommendations and substitutes non-committal suggestions and vague future planning or action.

Not only is this poor policy but it is unlawful. The CLCPA mandates that the Energy Plan reflect the Scoping Plan's recommendations. We can't have business as usual when our country and planet are being ravaged by the increasingly severe consequences of greenhouse gas-induced disasters including severe heat, fires, droughts, hurricanes, loss of wildlife, severe economic losses, and mass migration. 

The state is abdicating its responsibility to its people. Instead, it must realize that the choice to make energy costs supposedly more affordable by ignoring the severe environmental consequences of lack of action is a false one. 

You have until October 6 to email your written comments to: energyplan.ny.gov/Get-Involved/comment   or   to nysenergyplan@nyserda.ny.gov (please include “comment” in your subject line.

You may use this information to guide your comments: State Energy Plan Toolkit August 2025 NY