Green Power in the Fourteenth Congressional District of New York

January 6, 2019 By Bruce Thompson

The newly elected representative for the Fourteenth Congressional District of New York, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is pushing a "Green New Deal" plan on Twitter.  Vox has a detailed description of the plan.  Simply put, it features three main goals: decarbonize the economy, provide a federal jobs guarantee with large-scale public investments and a just transition with protections for those hardest hit by historical discrimination.  She has also suggested a 70% income tax rate for the "tippy top" earners (above $10 million) to pay for it.

Her electric power plan calls for a transition to 100% renewables by 2030.  That is much more ambitious than Governor Andrew Cuomo's own newly announced Green New Deal plan to make New York's power 100% carbon neutral by 2040..........It might help all these Democrat politicians to learn about the sources of New York State's electric power as of 2015, as reported by N.Y.'s Green Power Program.  It was 38% natural gas, 32% nuclear, 22% hydro, 3% coal, and 1% oil.  Wind, solar, biomass, and solid waste combined for the remaining 4%..........Read more