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Wednesday, April 21, 2021. 2:00 PM. Webinar: Replacing Peaker Power Plants with Clean
Energy: A Frontline Vision for New York City. Carlos Garcia, New York City Environmental
Justice Alliance; Erin Childs and Eliasid Animas, Strategen Consulting; Dariella Rodriguez, THE
POINT CDC. Sponsored by Clean Energy States Alliance. More information here.

A new report from the PEAK Coalition (New York City Environmental Justice Alliance,
UPROSE, THE POINT CDC, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, and Clean Energy
Group) and Strategen Consulting lays out a plan to reliably replace all fossil-fuel peaker power
plants in New York City with a mix of renewable energy, storage and demand side energy
management solutions by 2030. The report, The Fossil Fuel End Game: A Frontline Vision to
Retire the New York City’s Peaker Plants by 2030, is the first detailed strategic and policy road
map to retire an entire city’s fossil-fuel peaker plants. It lays out a community-led strategy to
replace roughly half of the existing fleet of polluting peaker plants with a combination of offshore
wind, distributed solar, demand side energy management strategies, and energy storage by
2025. The remaining peaker plants could be reliably and cost-effectively replaced with the same
mix of resources by 2030.