Establishes the climate leadership and community protection act cost task force

◆ The sponsor's argument

Why Mario Mattera says this is needed

With New York State's decision to rapidly move away from clean natural gas and other energy sources, the unfortunate reality is that there are some issues with the efforts to comply with the CLCPA (Climate Leader- ship and Community Protection Act) and that may impact every day New Yorkers. Many in the energy industry have expressed serious concerns that the cost estimates associated with the CLCPA mandates have been woefully short of the true cost to ratepayers and that the current ener- gy infrastructure will be unable to handle demand that the CLPCA will put on it. Due to these concerns, and others, our state must take immediate steps to ensure that ratepayers know exactly what this will cost them. This task force will focus on the impact on taxpayers and ratepayers of the mandates set forth by the CLCPA. Ratepayers need to know what their monthly bills could be, how much this will cost municipalities for infrastructure needs and what the cost could be to business. While the CLCPA implementation is still flawed, we must move forward with a clear plan to protect our residents from exceedingly increasing costs. This bill will help find those answers to protect New York resi- dents.

This is the sponsor's own case for the bill, quoted from their memorandum. It is not Agora's description of what the bill does.