New York takes big step toward renewable energy in ‘historic’ climate win

Measure will also help shift utilities away from private companies to make them publicly owned

New York state has passed legislation that will scale up the state's renewable energy production and signals a major step toward moving utilities out of private hands to become publicly owned.

The bill, included in the state's new budget, will require the state's public power provider to generate all of its electricity from clean energy by 2030. It also allows the public utility to build and own renewables while phasing out fossil fuels.