2023 state budget allows NYPA broad authority to build new renewables, including agrivoltaics, and requires retirement of NYPA fossil fuel plants by 2030.
Includes an adder for up to 6 cents per kWh on a twenty-year contract for solar on farmland.
A sweeping climate bill aimed at helping the state meet its net-zero greenhouse gas emissions goal by 2050, which had been previously stipulated in 2021's Act Creating a Next-Generation Roadmap for Massachusetts Climate Policy.
Establishes a dual-use solar energy pilot program to permit the construction, installation, and operation of dual-use solar energy projects on unpreserved farmland while maintaining the affected land in active agricultural or horticultural use.