On August 21, 2024, NYSEIA submitted comments in response to PSEG-LI's Utility 2.0 Long Range Plan & Energy Efficiency Plan, 2024 Annual Update (Matter 14-01299). NYSEIA's comments criticize the utility's underwhelming investments in clean energy, identify flaws in PSEG-LI's benefit cost analysis for energy storage, and highlight the fact that Long Island gets 93.8% of its electricity from fossil fuels, making it the most polluting electric system in the continental United States east of Michigan. NYSEIA's comments advocate for PSEG-LI to:

• Set More Ambitious Distributed Solar Deployment Goals:

• Make Cost-Effective Investments to Enable Rapid Solar PV Deployment:

  • Address Long Island’s Unique and Unnecessary Telecommunications Barriers to Commercial Solar and Storage Deployment

  • Lower the Cost of Residential Solar Interconnection with Meter Socket Adapters

  • Support Troubleshooting and Client Communication on Utility Voltage Issues that Impact Solar Customers

  • Support Community Solar on Long Island

• Fully Implement the Energy Storage Roadmap Order, Including Residential and Retail Storage Incentives:

  • NYSEIA notes with concern that PSEG-LI's current plan does not commit to implementing the Energy Storage Roadmap Order issued by the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) in June 2024. The PSEG-LI plan lacks robust programs necessary to meet the ambitious state energy storage goals or to reduce Long Island’s heavy reliance on fossil fuels.

  • PSEG-LI’s Benefit Cost Analysis has Major Flaws that Undervalue Energy Storage.

  • Retail Energy Storage is Economically Feasible and Should be Supported.

• Build a Massive Distributed (“Virtual”) Power Plant on Long Island:

  • Improve the Dynamic Load Management Program for Residential BESS to increase residential BESS deployment and participation

  • Convene a Long Island VPP collaborative working group to bring together leaders from the utilities, state agencies, DER providers, aggregators, technology providers, and equipment manufacturers to develop a strategy to build out a large-scale VPP on Long Island.

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