Posted on Apr 1, 2021
The state is aiming for 100% carbon-free electricity by 2040. It also wants to cut carbon pollution 85% by 2050.
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New York State has set ambitious climate goals. It has committed to using 100% carbon-free electricity by 2040. And it’s pledged to reduce its total carbon pollution by 85% percent below 1990 levels within the next three decades.
“So these are very aggressive targets,” says Fengqi You, a professor of energy systems engineering at Cornell University.
He wanted to figure out if these goals are realistic.
“Before we started this study, we were not sure,” You says.
His team analyzed scientific and economic data and concluded that the goals are technologically and financially feasible. And the researchers provided a road map to achieve them.