Posted on 12/19/2022 6:56:40 PM PST by lowbridge
A state commission today approved plans to phase out fossil fuel-burning furnaces beginning as soon as 2025 as part of New York’s aggressive program to address climate change.
The plan adopted today by the state Climate Action Council requires energy-efficient electric heat pumps or other non-combustion heating systems in every new home built in 2025 or thereafter.
For existing homes, residents whose fossil fuel-burning heating units give out after 2030 will have to replace them with a zero-emission system.
Those are just two of the many policies in a 445-page plan adopted today by the state Climate Action Council, a 22-member commission made up of state agency leaders, environmental experts, energy industry leaders and others.
Some of the policies approved today in the Climate Action Council’s “final scoping plan’' require further action before they can be enforced. The new regulations on heating systems, for example, will require changes to the state building code. Other changes may require new legislation.
But the council’s “final scoping plan” is now the official policy for how state government will meet goals for greenhouse gas reduction required under a state law passed in 2019. State regulations must follow its prescriptions, said Robert Howarth, a Cornell University professor and a member of the Climate Action Council.
“Agencies are supposed to go ahead and start following the plan -- making regulations, doing whatever it is that needs to be done -- as of next month,’’ said Howarth, a professor of ecology and environmental biology.
Get ready to learn about electric heat pumps.
In Central New York, officials are planning for a massive housing boom to accommodate thousands of workers expected to build and staff new chip fabs for Micron Technology. The transition to new household heating technology could be especially significant.
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insanity
This is stupidity
Exactly. Pure insanity.
These commies need to be phased out. Immediately!
Freezing NY’ers. Keep voting DemonCrat.
We could throw some of them in the fireplace.
What’s the efficiency of a heat pump when it’s 12* outside?
gotta get everyone on the grid
so much easier to control
Onward, comrades!
Sounds like a wonderful plan!
Powered by what? Rabbit 🐇 excrement?
I’m sure they will figure something out by then. Pass the law and then create the technology.
did they mention any plans to expand the grid?
I don’t think unicorn farts will cut it as an energy source in upstate NY in winter. I’m sure they want to transition to “green” sources at the same time.
Can you still put a wood stove in a new house?
It’s looking like we are going to need a revolution and soon.
The war on HydroCarbons needs to be stopped in its tracks.
Underneath New York are the Marcellus and Utica shale formations. MASSIVE oil and natural gas deposits. I hope neighboring States will drill horizontal and use what the green wackos won’t.
The earth is large beyond the average person's ability to comprehend it. New York is nothing and whatever virtue signaling New York engages in, has no measurable effect on the rest of the world.
Heat a home with a electric furnace in northern climate? Enjoy 4 figure monthly heating bills…
Force to take lower efficiency and higher operating costs… makes perfect sense…
Idiots
Heat pumps will be useless in upstate’s cold.
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