During the 2021 budgeting process, New York State adopted Article 94-c of the Executive Law forming the new Office of Renewable Energy Siting (ORES). This year, in the 2022 budget (available here), the state seeks to exempt ORES from reviewing the environmental impacts of individual renewable…
In 2020 New York State formed the Office of Renewable Energy Siting (ORES) to further expedite the process for siting large renewable energy facilities. Implementing legislation can be found here. In general, the new process is less transparent than the Article 10 process it replaces, does…