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City, advocates and utilities press for transmission, funding and neighborhood heating pilots to meet Local Law 97 and CLCPA goals
Summary
New York City officials, environmental groups and developers told senators that scaling building decarbonization will require more than household‑level programs: they urged transmission investment, dedicated funding for Local Law 97 compliance and approval of pilot utility thermal energy networks (U10) to serve dense urban neighborhoods.
New York City officials, community groups and clean‑energy advocates used the Senate joint committee hearing to stress that implementing Local Law 97 and meeting the CLCPA will require targeted financing, transmission build‑out and neighborhood‑scale heating solutions. Elijah Hutchinson, executive director of the NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice, told senators that the city has completed its first Local Law 97 compliance deadline and is expanding municipally owned solar, organics processing for renewable gas and other programs, but that New York City needs state tools to make compliance affordable. Hutchinson urged the legislature and PSC to prioritize…
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