WASHINGTON - New York Officer Andrew Cuomo today approved legislation allowing solar energy to wait its swift bane in the state. The container of bills, all concurrent to tax exemption of solar projects in New York, is prone to contain a promising impact on the poise blow up of electricity consequent from renewables in the state. The Planetary Excitement Industries Sound (R) (SEIA (R)) highly praised the new laws, which choice put on record New York's mighty solar bane on means to cuff its renewable energy goals in the NYSun Film.
"We acclamation Officer Cuomo, as believably as Senator George Maziarz and Assemblyman Cahill for their bipartisan masterpiece paving the way for solar to lessen in New York Maintain," said Carrie Cullen Hitt, Decadence Be in first place for Maintain Dealings at SEIA. "By making it bigger sufficient for businesses and homeowners to install solar systems, these laws are indispensable to quota New York refer to its feature of 45 percent renewable-powered electricity by 2015. We glance at place to permanent to masterpiece with state leaders so that New York can build its poise solar go weight in the handy superior."
New York is home to about 7,500 solar photovoltaic (PV) solar installations and it outline 6th in the people in concern of PV systems. These systems contain the chunk to blunt 121 megawatts of clean solar energy - ample to power nearly 20,000 homes. In addition to these new laws, the state has another other policies in position to help solar investment, as well as a feed-in tax uninterrupted Want Atoll Control Ascendancy (LIPA), a New York Maintain Excitement Groundwork and Development Ascendancy (NYSERDA) customer-sited tiered program, and net metering - rules that balance clients for rest power generated.
The safety inspection container signed by Gov. Cuomo today includes:
* Collect A 34-B: Provides tax credits for solar energy system furnishings.
* Collect A 10620: Provides for the blow up of tax abatement for solar generating systems in cities of one million or bigger.
* Collect A 5522-B: Exempts the sale and installation of commercial solar energy systems from state sales and compensating use levy and allows municipalities to bestow these systems a tax exemption as believably.
In this day and age, the U.S. solar energy industry employs 100,000 Americans at bigger than 5,600 companies, in the main small businesses, creatively the people in all 50 states.
Encompassing SEIA:
Congeal in 1974, the Planetary Excitement Industries Sound is the place of birth hard work association of the U.S. solar energy industry. Completed advocacy and education, SEIA is line a vicious solar industry to power America. As the gap of the industry, SEIA lodge with its 1,100 join companies to make solar a mainstream and important energy source by expanding markets, removing go barriers further details the industry and cultivating the normal on the benefits of solar energy. Witness SEIA online at www.seia.org.
Verification MATERIALS:
Collect A 10620/ S7711
Collect A 34-B/ S149-B
Collect A 5522-B/ S3203-B
New York Planetary Fact Document
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Jamie Nolan, jnolan@seia.org, 202.556.2886
