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The Plan - Focusing on the five key dimensions of the city’s environment — land, air, water, energy, and transportation — we have developed a plan that can become a model for cities in the 21st century

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Energy - New Yorkers face rapidly-rising energy costs and carbon emission from an ineffective market, aging energy infrastructure, and growth. Addressing our energy challenge will require a two-pronged strategy of increasing our sources of clean supply and lowering our demand. We will encourage the addition of new, clean power plants, promote repowerings of our most inefficient plants, and build a market for renewable energies. To reduce demand, we will target our largest energy consumers and accelerate energy efficiency upgrades. Together, these strategies will produce a reliable, affordable, and environmentally sustainable energy network for New York City. But there is currently no entity capable of executing these initiatives. That's why we will work with the State to create a New York City Energy Planning Board that will help us shape our energy future.

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Work with the State and utilities to centralize planning for the city's supply and demand initiatives

Commit 10% of the City's annual energy bill to fund energy-saving investments in City operations

Strengthen our energy and building codes to support our energy efficiency strategies and other environmental goals

Create the New York City Efficiency Authority (NYCEEA) responsible for reaching the city's demand reduction targets

Use a series of mandates, challenges, and incentives to reduce demand among the city's largest energy consumers

Expand participation in Peak Load Management Programs through smart meters
Support expansion of real-time pricing across the city

Increase the impact of our energy efficiency efforts through a coordinated energy education, awareness, and training campaign

Facilitate the construction of 2,000 to 3,000 MW of supply capacity by repowering old plants, constructing new ones, and building dedicated transmission lines

Increase the amount of Clean DG by 800 MW
Promote opportunities to develop district energy at appropriate sites in New York City

Support critical expansions to the city’s natural gas infrastructure

Create a property tax abatement for solar panel installations
Study the cost-effectiveness of solar electricity when evaluated on a Real Time Pricing scenario
Support the construction of the city's first carbon neutral building, primarily powered by solar electricity
Increase use of solar energy in City buildings through creative financing
Work with the State to eliminate barriers to increasing the use of solar energy in the city
Pilot one or more technologies for producing energy from solid waste
End methane emissions from sewage treatment plants and expand the productive use of digester gas
Study the expansion of gas capture and energy production from existing landfills

Advocate for Con Edison to implement recommendations from the City's report on the northwest Queens power outages

13: Facilitate grid repairs through improved coordination and joint bidding

Pursue the passage of joint bidding legislation
Ensure adequate pier facilities are available to Con Edison to offload transformers and other equipment