New York advisory panel recommendations to include gas-fired plant moratorium

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New York's Power Generation Advisory Panel will recommend a moratorium against new fossil fuel-fired plant construction to the state's Climate Action Council, the panel's chair said May 3. The concept of a moratorium has been included as a recommendation, though consensus on it was not reached among all panel members, said Sarah Osgood, panel chair and director of policy implementation at the New York State Department of Public Service, during a remotely held meeting of the panel. “We had presented at our last meeting that there was a concept of a moratorium on new and repowered gas facilities and that has been incorporated as a component of a recommendation,” Osgood said. Based on public comments, there was generally broad support for the advisory panel’s agenda with “lots of support for energy efficiency and renewables as well as energy storage” and a lot of calls for equity and urgency of action, Osgood said.