'NYC surpassing the 100 MW mark can be attributed to the strategic actions Sustainable CUNY and our partners recommended in the NYC Solar Roadmap when solar was at a mere 1 MW. The NYC Solar Partnership worked collaboratively to systematically address the identified barriers to solar and the market has now busted through even the most robust predictions. The Partnership's work is ongoing and the growth is expected to continue with Mayor de Blasio's Solarize NYC and Shared Solar NYC programs. Sustainable CUNY is now utilizing the same strategy to create a pathway to solar+storage and recently published the NYC Resilient Solar Roadmap' -
Tria Case, University Director of Sustainability at CUNY and Lead for the NYC Solar Partnership
NY ORDER- LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION
The New York Public Service Commission has approved a new order that weighs time, location and grid needs into the rate calculation of how much each kilowatt-hour of solar generation is worth for each customer. The Phase 1 rates are known as the "value of distributed energy resources" or VDER. This is a first step toward a new pricing mechanism, known as the Value Stack, which also establishes compensation for energy storage when combined with eligible DG systems. Read the full order or view a pdfof the webinar presentation.
NY SOLAR+STORAGE SUMMIT 2017
Sponsorships are now available for Sustainable CUNY's 11th annual NY Solar+Storage Summit on June 21st in NYC. The summit will feature a progress update on the transparent steps that the Empire State is taking to transition to a 21st Century Grid. Early sponsorship commitments are advantageous as they bring your organization's name to the attention of our extensive database of solar stakeholders and decision makers throughout New York State multiple times.
NY Solar+Storage Summit | Previous Summit Sponsors Registration opens April 21, 2017
Find out more about the city-wide group purchasing program that aims to make solar accessible for all New Yorkers.
CDG NOW EASIER FOR SOME MULTI-UNITS
With all the interest on the VDER order, some may have missed the ruling on March 13th, 2017. The NYC Public Service Commission approved a petition filed by the City of New York and others requesting a limited waiver of the ten member minimum requirement for Community Distributed Generation (CDG) Projects. The waivereliminates the ten member minimum for CDG projects on residential properties with multiple units.
PVTN FILLS SEATS IN LONG ISLAND
This week, the NY-Sun PV Trainers Network (PVTN)
delivered three trainings to full houses at Farmingdale State College on Long Island: Streamlined Solar Permitting and Municipal Solar Procurement, Solar PV for Engineers and Solar PV for Architects: Evaluation and Design Fundamentals. PVTN is actively engaging Long Island, offering such services as:
Over the last week alone the PVTN educated and trained over 500 local government officials across NY State on solar PV. If you or someone you know represents a local government on Long Island, or anywhere in the state, please reach out to
PVTN to take advantage of these resources.
NEW YORK SOLAR ANALYTICS
NYSolar Smart Partner Jurisdiction
Solar Snapshot
NYC-
Staten Island
Staten Island leads the city in both the number of customer projects and the amount of power those projects produced with 4,459 projects producing 39.011 megawatts. Read about it in silive.com's Staten Island leads NYC in Solar Generation
NYSolar Smart is a strategic effort led by Sustainable CUNY of the City University of New York that supports Federal, State and NYC solar initiatives to strategically remove barriers to large scale solar deployment.
