Marie French
Energy and Environment Reporter, POLITICO New York. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Marie J. French reports on New York State energy policy, utility regulation, and clean energy mandates for POLITICO. She previously reported for the Albany Business Review, the Associated Press, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and was a 2022 Livingston Awards finalist.
1shows
1appearances
11statements
9resolved
8supported
0contradicted
89%fully supported
Everything Marie French said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
French: New York needs roughly 18GW of offshore wind for 2040 goals
“To actually achieve the state's, you know, ultimate twenty-thirty and twenty-forty goals We're going to need a whole lot more offshore wind than just nine gigawatts. We're going to need much more than that. I think the Climate Action Council, you know, support…”
French: NY climate law contains reliability off-ramps for 2040 target
“The climate law has off-ramps. The Public Service Commission, if it can, is concerned about reliability, Can, you know, be like, well, I guess we're not going to hit zero emissions by 2040.”
French: NYISO warned peaker plants may run longer if CHPE delays occur
“If Chippy the Champlain Hudson Power Express doesn't come online, you know, when it's currently forecasted to come online there could be some reliability issues that the NISO itself has said, you know, this could mean that the peakers need to stay on longer.”
French: New York's first offshore wind projects face 1-2 year delays
“These projects, you know, when they were first announced, the first two that have state contracts, when they were announced in twenty-nineteen by Governor Andrew Cuomo, you know, they were supposed to be online, I think twenty-twenty-four, May twenty-twenty-fo…”
French: New York's renewable siting office still staffing up after two years
“OREZ, the Office of Renewable Energy Siting, which is the new state office that was set up to do permitting and speed it up, essentially, for renewable developers, is still staffing up. And it's been two years. So, you know, we're still waiting.”
French: Battery storage cannot currently replace peaker plants one-to-one
“Well, I don't think batteries, right now, battery storage technology is not necessarily a one-to-one replacement for peakers, right? We don't necessarily have a battery that can run for several days or, you know, twelve-plus hours, and batteries need to rechar…”
French: Con Ed failed to award contracts in 300MW storage RFP
“Con Ed was required by the Public Service Commission to issue a utility scale request for proposals for battery storage. I believe, 300 megawatts was the target. I mean, other, other utilities were also required to issue RFPs, but they were like, you know, 10,…”
French: Storage developers will not build in New York without long-term contracts
“None of these developers or the incumbent generators that I talked to who are, you know, thinking about storage plan to build it without a long-term contract or support of some kind. There's no, no ability to do that in the current energy markets.”
French: New York Assembly Democrats blocked statewide all-electric building mandate
“Senate Democrats were on board. The governor's office was on board but the assembly Democrats were not there yet.”
French: NY Climate Council considers delaying building electrification timeline one year
“And now the Climate Council is considering pushing back the whole timeline about a year, Because of the way that the international building codes are coming out later, and they need more time to sort of integrate it, if they do it through the building codes co…”
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 GREEN BLUEPRINTLEDGER | Energy and Environment Reporter, POLITICO New York | 1 | 11 | 89% 8/9 | full record on the Green Blueprint → |