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Over the past decade, New York’s solar industry has quietly delivered one of the most cost-effective energy buildouts in state history. While large wind and fossil fuel projects face delays, solar developers have added more new generating capacity than any other energy source.

In the past two years, the state installed 2.2 gigawatts of solar — roughly equal to the nameplate capacity of NYPA’s Power Vista in Lewiston, New York’s largest power plant. This isn’t a future plan; it’s real infrastructure, already online, lowering energy bills and relieving grid pressure.

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But in late April, the New York Public Service Commission turned off the lights on the state's most successful clean energy program.

The PSC cut $271 million in previously approved funding from NY-Sun, the program that enabled this decade of growth. That move ends support for rooftop solar,........

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