A Green New Deal Part 2: How Much Energy?

Is it possible to run New York on renewable energy alone?

To convert all vehicles to electric in New York State would demand an estimated 164 million MW-h of power per year. Davide Cantelli/Unsplash

Commentary

Welcome to Part 2 of our groundbreaking effort to make New York the first state in the Union to eliminate all fossil fuels from its energy portfolio. Well, almost all, as we did carve out a few exceptions that we thought would meet with the approval of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and the principles of her “Green New Deal.”