Host Community Benefit Program News Today

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On March 3, 2021, the Office of Renewable Energy Siting (“ORES”) issued the much-anticipated final regulations implementing New York State’s new large-scale renewables siting and permitting process (“the Section 94-c process”). The final regulations are substantially similar to the draft regulations that ORES issued on September 16, 2020, but add a few key requirements to the pre-application consultation period, scope of stu...

ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York State Public Service Commission (Commission) recently approved a Host Community Benefit Program that provides bill credits directly to residential electric customers in municipalities in