Cediendo a la presión de los activistas, los reguladores de utilidades del estado negaron la petición de un rescate bancario de $100 millones para la planta de carbón de Cayuga. En cambio, los reguladores aceptaron invertir en la infraestructura de energía limpia del futuro.

How activists convinced New York state regulators to invest in a clean energy future instead of sinking $100 million into a fossil fuel bailout.

Decision saves ratepayers millions of dollars and sets stage for end of coal-burning

Expensive bailout would result in a plant three times larger than necessary

This proceeding challenges the June 13, 2014 Order Addressing Repowering Issues and Cost Allocation and Recovery issued by Respondents New York Public Service Commission and the New York State Department of Public Service approving a February 13, 2014 Term Sheet Agreement filed by National Grid to add natural-gas firing cap ability to the Dunkirk coal-burning power plant.

By order dated June 13, 2014, the New York Public Service Commission approved a repowering agreement for the Dunkirk coal-burning power plant that requires National Grid ratepayers to subsidize a generating facility three times larger than is need ed to maintain grid reliability at a cost four times that of equally reliable transmission alternatives.

Demand access to documents relating to backroom power plant deals

Expensive, unnecessary plan represents a huge setback for state’s green energy efforts

Earthjustice represented a group of elected officials in repowering proceedings before New York’s Public Service Commission. At issue was a controversial, precedent-setting decision: whether to repower the uneconomic coal-burning Cayuga and Dunkirk power plants with natural gas—a plan that would lock the region into continued use of fossil fuels and hike electricity bills for people…

Local elected officials, concerned ratepayers speak out in Albany