Generation Industry Calls for Repowering at IPPNY Conference
Generation industry representatives and their allies united behind a call to loosen New York’s climate law to allow the repowering of old fossil fuel plants with new natural gas turbines at the Independent Power Producers of New York’s 40th annual Spring Conference on March 24.
On one of the panels, Ryan Stanton, executive director of the Long Island Federation of Labor, said more effort has to be put into communicating with local communities and local stakeholders when developing renewables…
He pointed to the success of renewable development in the Republican-controlled town of Brookhaven, on Long Island. He said the town is on track to link 900 MW of offshore wind to the town because the labor movement, local government and community leaders had coordinated and communicated effectively.