A report by the New York Affordable Clean Power Alliance warns that the shift to solar and wind energy poses significant risks to New York's power grid. It highlights that the state's ambition to phase out fossil fuels poses hurdles for cost effectiveness and reliability. The report predicts a generation shortfall beginning in 2033 due to increasing demand, the loss of dispatchable fossil fuel energy, and the intermittent nature of renewable energy sources, stressing the challenges in balancing supply and demand effectively.
Unlike fossil fuel plants, which provide dispatchable generation around the clock, renewables depend on weather conditions, making real-time supply and demand balancing more complex.
New York faces hurdles in maintaining reliability due to ambitious renewables targets, the projected retirement of much of its flexible fossil generation fleet, growing load, and extreme weather.
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