New York, with its vast acreage of rooftops and millions of renters, is the top community solar market in the country. On Thursday, Governor Hochul and NYSERDA President and CEO Doreen Harris announce that the state has reached an important milestone of 6 gigawatts of installed solar and a year ahead of schedule at that. Consequently, New York is increasing its solar power goal to 10 GW by 2030.
Solar One’s Here Comes Solar program has been deeply involved in this effort in NYC, facilitating 900 solar projects totaling 32 megawatts installed. As a result of installations coming online across the state, more than 1 million New Yorkers are currently reaping the benefits of solar power in their communities with much more to come.
All this solar development has generated $9.2 billion in private investments across the state and added 14,000 new jobs in a variety of fields including engineering and solar installation.
“New York State has provided a replicable model for others to deliver clean, low-cost renewable energy to more consumers,” asserted Harris. “Our public-private partnerships are the catalysts which have helped us to achieve our 6-GW goal well ahead of target, trailblazing New York’s path to an equitable energy transition.”
In 2023, New York installed more community solar capacity than any other state. Last year was also the state’s most productive year ever for solar installations, with 885 MW of capacity installed.
You can read more about this on the NYSERDA website here.
