Did you know that rooftop and community solar, paired with battery storage, is a billion‑dollar energy affordability opportunity for New York?

I spend a lot of time talking to New Yorkers about our energy future, and I hear the same thing over and over: people feel caught between two competing narratives. One insists that building clean energy will drive up costs for families and businesses. The other says that scaling more solar and storage will lower bills. It’s no wonder so many people feel stuck in the middle, staring at a choice that feels impossible. But that choice is a false one. If we want to lower energy bills for every New Yorker—and keep them low—the single most effective step we can take is to rapidly build more solar and battery storage across the state.

We have the data to back that up. Earlier this year, Synapse Energy Economics released an analysis showing that if New York builds 20 gigawatts of distributed solar by 2035 and meets its energy storage targets, ratepayers will save more than $1 billion every single year in avoided energy costs. Those savings flow through the wholesale market to everyone — not just the households that have panels on their roof or a battery in their garage. That billion‑dollar benefit comes in addition to the........

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