On July 3, as a heat wave swept the region, New York State’s grid imported 52 gigawatt-hours of electricity from Canada—enough to meet about 9% of its total electricity demand that day. Some of that power shuttled in on a 339-mile power line stretching from Quebec to Queens called the Champlain Hudson Power Express (CHPE).…
The Trump administration’s moves threaten $121 billion in new solar and wind power, two energy sources that are the biggest contributors to new capacity in the U.S.