by #LawrenceWang in #Jacobin:

"The law mandates the state’s public power authority, the New York Power Authority (NYPA), to plan, build, and operate renewable projects to meet New York’s ambitious decarbonization timetable — 70 percent renewable electricity by 2030, 100 percent by 2040 — where the private sector fails to do so on its own.

"But the BPRA is more than 'just' a climate bill. It is part of an unabashedly socialist vision of how to build a better world. The BPRA turns the renewable energy transition into a tool for empowering labor, materially improving working-class conditions, advancing racial justice, and laying the groundwork for true democratic ownership of our energy systems. It also provides an important model for other states to follow and a demonstration of the power socialists can wield in designing and passing policy."

https://jacobin.com/2023/07/new-york-bpra-green-new-deal-public-renewable-energy

#NewYork #NY #BPRA #GreenNewDeal #RenewableEnergy #sustainability #jobs #energy #socialists