Resources & Publications
Find helpful research, blogs, and publications below from our members and associates to help your organization manage the turbulent waters of protecting your community from NYS-driven Energy Sprawl.
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Energy Expert & Engineer Richard Ellenbogen’s video presentation, NY State’s Energy Transition provides an in-depth review on NY’s Climate Leadership & Community Protection Act (CLCPA) and why it will fail to meet its goals and place our grid in peril.
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Meteorologist & Environmental Analyst Roger Caizza's essential blog, https://pragmaticenvironmentalistofnewyork.blog/ provides insight and information into NY's Energy Plan and provides a guide to the CLCPA. The blog aims to show both sides of environmental issues and get into the details necessary to support the other side of the story.
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The Alliance for Wise Energy Decision's (wiseenergy.org) purpose is to sort through many thousands of articles, studies and reports on energy matters, select a representative cross-section of informative material, and then organize it in an understandable manner. The insights and resources available on the site are unique in their breadth and depth and are a must-read for members of any community facing large-scale wind & solar proposals.
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Coalition Member NY Energy Alliance’s news feed provides timely topical information on energy issues in the Hudson Valley and Statewide
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In December 2023, Stop Energy Sprawl signed onto a filing produced previously by several of its members in the Clean Energy Standard case, 15-E-0302. The filing calls for the Public Service Commission “to engage in rational energy planning based on an understanding and appreciation of technology, economics, the environment, and a respect for both urban and rural communities.” Such an initiative would require supporting a more diverse set of solutions towards achieving carbon-free generation and further recognition of the risk to NY’s grid from over-reliance on intermittent wind & solar.
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The initial offering on Kris Martin’s blog, SolarDivideNY, is Enough Land — a comprehensive and informative report that addresses the questions:
How much farmland will be required to meet New York State’s Climate Act goals for solar development?
Do we have enough land to build out solar and allow agriculture to thrive?
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In 2022, GlenFARMLand published its seminal whitepaper, “Rural NY for Sale: The assault on rural farmland in Glen and rural New York by Industrial Scale Solar resulting from New York State Legislation, Incentives, and Section 94-C.” The whitepaper explores the cultural, demographic, and legislative factors leading to the proliferation of proposals to sacrifice farmland for large industrial scale solar electric generating plants, with a focus on the Mill Point proposal in Glen, NY.