Delaware County staff and supervisors raise equity and safety concerns after Clean Path picked up by New York Power Authority

Shelley Johnson, a county staff presenter, told the Delaware County Board of Supervisors that the private Clean Path transmission proposal has been withdrawn and the New York Power Authority has taken over the project. "They are a public entity, which means they have a mid lane authorities. They have the ability to basically do this project with very little involvement from the local communities," Johnson said, summarizing a letter and document submitted by Kevin Young to the Public Service Commission.

Johnson said the project would move renewable energy downstate and that upstate communities — including the Town of Delhi and nearby towns that jointly filed comments — face most local impacts while receiving limited benefit. "A lot of that is to account for the needed cost to build infrastructure to move energy to the city," she said,…