2020 City & State NYC Energy & Environment Power 50 List
John J. Gilbert III added to NY State & City Energy & Environment Power 50 List
The list includes 50 key players shaping NY energy policy.
Since taking office in 2011, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has shaken up New York’s energy policy, from an overhaul of the state’s power plant siting law, to a deal to shut down the Indian Point nuclear power plant, to a reenergized focus on renewables, including efforts to develop significant offshore wind projects near Long Island. Yet there is an array of individuals in the energy industry and the environmental community who have also played key roles in the shaping of state energy policy. An impressive grassroots movement helped pressure the Cuomo administration to ban high-volume hydraulic fracturing in 2014, and many of those same activists are seeking to block proposed pipeline projects in the state. Executives at leading power generators and utilities have been exerting their influence as well as the state rethinks everything from its reliance on fossil fuels to how its grid is configured.
In City & State’s Energy & Environment Power 50 list – which was researched and written in partnership with Alexander Kaufman, a HuffPost senior reporter who covers climate change, environmental policy and politics – they identify the executives, advocates, academics and others who are true power players in New York.
