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NEW YORK STATE ENERGY RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT AUTHOR I TY don’t understand what the system is, or don’t know what all these components are, or don’t really know how to guarantee that these systems are being installed safely. “We have developed a solar guidebook that gives step-by-step instructions and understanding to the people that are going to be looking at these systems and giving inspectors the information they need that makes that process run much easier and quicker, thereby reducing overall cost of the project as well,” says Williams. Another example of developing markets through policy is energy storage and battery technologies. NYSERDA has, for a number of years, looked at in- state battery technology R&D and systems. But to support technology in New York that is now ready for primetime, NYSERDA is organizing around program activity that will be looking at building a battery technology market to scale in New York over the short term. “We have policy directing us to do that: 3,000 megawatts of energy storage by 2030. We’re starting at a relatively low level but we’re designing programs to quickly ramp up and attract customers to utilize those technologies,” Williams claims. 2030 is a benchmark year to achieve 40 percent greenhouse gas emissions reductions in New York’s energy system. “This acts across the whole economy, but for NYSERDA we think about it with energy, so we have to translate that in terms of how much contribution do we need from solar energy, wind energy (whether it’s on-shore wind or building a new off-shore wind industry), energy efficiency, energy storage. This is going to be a system that operates very differently, as we’re pulling these renewable and intermittent resources into the system,” according to Williams. Guided by Governor Cuomo’s Green New Deal, a nation-leading clean energy and jobs agenda to put New York on a path to a carbon-neutral economy, NYSERDA is looking at what that change of resource mix needs to look like and the change in the way that the electricity system needs to function over this short period of time, and how to support the various technologies to get to that end state. It’s necessary to think about emissions reductions in other sectors of the economy besides electricity production. Transportation