JANUARY 2024
ACCELERATE NOW! THE FOSSIL FUEL END GAME 2.0
This PEAK Coalition report examines progress made toward transitioning New York City’s fleet of fossil fuel peaker power plants to clean alternatives over the past four years. The report serves as a companion to an earlier publication released by the Peak Coalition in 2021, “The Fossil Fuel End Game,” which detailed a strategic roadmap to retire and replace New York City’s entire fleet of fossil fuel peaker power plants with a combination of offshore wind, distributed solar, energy efficiency, and battery storage by 2030. This report explores the current state of this clean energy transition, examining the steps taken by the city, state, utilities, grid operator, and energy industry to hasten or delay the shift from polluting power plants to clean zero-emission alternatives and efforts by local communities to accelerate a just transition.