Con Ed Has Enough Energy to Meet Needs until 2030

NEW YORK, NY (12/10/2025) (readMedia)-- Last week, Con Ed shared its 2025 local transmission plan, which shows that Con Ed will have enough energy to meet its customers' needs until 2030. The plan does forecast reliability needs from 2030-2035 - which could be met with the Clean Path Transmission Line. But the Clean Path line, which would bring 1,300 MW of renewable energy to New York City, was indefinitely delayed by New York's Public Service Commission earlier this year.

"The 1,300 MW Clean Path Transmission line could resolve virtually all of Con Ed's reliability needs by entering service in 2030. New York leaders should prioritize building it. Instead of doubling down on yesterday's expensive technologies like burning fracked gas, policymakers and stakeholders should follow the facts - and the facts are that renewables are reliable and affordable. During the summer 2025 heatwave, renewables overperformed expectations, reducing peak demand and pulling down prices. Meanwhile, the dirty generators underperformed yet again," said Michael Lenoff, Senior Attorney at Earthjustice.

Con Ed's findings differ from the New York Independent System Operator's Q3 STAR report, which found reliability issues in Con Ed's service area beginning in 2026. But NYISO's report intentionally ignores the upcoming Champlain Hudson Power Express (CHPE) transmission line, even though according to NYISO's own statements the line is "nearing completion" and scheduled to enter service in Spring 2026. Con Ed acknowledges these facts and includes CHPE in its plan.

Even in the face of NYISO's reliability claims, New York leaders have repeatedly failed to follow through on building new clean energy infrastructure. In addition to delaying Clean Path, in July, the New York State Public Service Commission also abandoned efforts on a transmission project to connect multiple offshore wind farms to provide clean energy and meet growing demand. That project could have lowered costs to produce electricity by $40 to $70 billion from 2033 to 2052. That's on top of the approximately 50,000 MW of mostly clean energy projects stuck in the NYISO generator interconnection queue, and the possibilities for surplus interconnection, which would connect new renewable energy to the power grid quickly and could be built faster and cheaper than new gas.

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