Check it out: https://energyplan.ny.gov/Plans/2025-Energy-Plan
The Plan includes recommendations based on findings from more than a year-long assessment of current systems and future energy needs through 2040, which will guide the State’s energy-related decision making. Today’s (Dec 16 2025) approval of the Plan advances multiple State objectives including ensuring affordable, abundant, reliable, and clean energy while supporting economic development, equity, and a healthy environment.
For some basic context:
New York’s Energy Law establishes a State Energy Planning Board to periodically develop and adopt a State Energy Plan.8 In its consideration and development of State policies, programs, and other actions, the Board is guided by multiple goals and long-range energy planning objectives that are specified in the law. These include:
- Improving the reliability of New York State’s energy systems;
- Protecting consumers from market price volatility and minimizing the cost of energy services;
- Minimizing public health and environmental impacts, in particular, environmental impacts related to climate change;
- Maximizing energy conservation, energy efficiency, and load management; and
- Supporting economic development and the ability of the state to compete economically.
Under Article 6 of the Energy Law, the State Energy Plan is to include an assessment of the ability of energy supply sources, together with the energy transmission and delivery systems, to meet forecasted energy demand for electricity and fuels for at least a ten-year period. For the current planning cycle, the Energy Planning Board decided to evaluate energy demand and supply through 2040. Furthermore, many components of this State Energy Plan dovetail with the planning requirements of the 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (Climate Act), which set ambitious statutory targets to guide New York State’s clean energy and climate agenda.
Clean Energy and Climate Targets Set by the Climate Act
Signed into law in July 2019, the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (Climate Act) has laid the foundation for much of the work of State agencies tasked with contributing to the transition to a clean energy economy in New York. The Climate Act sets out targets to reduce economy-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 40% by 2030 and 85% by 2050, as well as the following sector-specific targets:
- Zero-emission electricity system by 2040
- 70% renewable electricity generation by 2030
- 9,000 megawatts (MW) of offshore wind by 2035
- 3,000 MW of energy storage by 2030
- 6,000 MW of solar by 2025
- 185 trillion British thermal units (TBtu) of end-use energy savings in the buildings and industrial sectors
The Climate Act requires that at least 35%—with a goal of 40%—of the benefits of clean energy investments are directed towards disadvantaged communities (DACs). This aims to make the energy transition inclusive and equitable, providing economic opportunities, job creation, and environmental benefits to communities that have historically been overburdened by pollution.
