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5. New York Leads U.S. on Community Solar

https://www.nyserda.ny.gov/Featured-Stories/New-York-Leads-on-Community-Solar

New York Leads U.S. on Community Solar
New York’s Two Gigawatts of Community Solar Provides Equitable Access to Renewable Energy

New York’s clean energy transition is spurring renewable energy development across the state. As of December 2023, more than two gigawatts (GW) of community solar have been installed in New York – enough to power nearly 400,000 homes.

This two GW milestone reaffirms New York’s position as the leading community solar market in the U.S., with nearly one-third of the nation’s 6.2 GW of community solar capacity located in New York. It also marks considerable progress towards achieving New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act goal to install six GW of distributed solar by 2025.

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Tesla got a sweetheart deal to make solar panels in New York. Are they going into New York’s community solar farms? Are they even being manufactured?

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-buffalo-new-york-solar-panel-factory-autopilot-1850615606

Read This: Nearly Half Of Tesla's Buffalo Solar Panel Factory Staff Just Analyzes Autopilot Data
New York spent $1 billion on a facility that was supposed to revive Buffalo manufacturing. Instead, many of its workers train AI driving software.
By
Adam Ismail
Published July 7, 2023

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I asked a community solar farmer if he had considered using Tesla panels. He said, “We’d love to! — Elon won’t sell them to us.”