Launched two years ago as a four-year, $432m programme, the NY-SunInitiative sees the state financially incentivize PV projects of various sizes,with companies like SolarCity and SunEdison, as well as smaller players, emerging as major beneficiaries.

By the end of 2013, the state had financially supported299MW of capacity – most of it still under construction.

But the state has now expanded its financial commitment to NY-Sun to $1bn andexpanded the programme through 2023, while redesigning the rules to quicken themove from “government-sponsored” PV systems to “market-based, sustainablesolutions”.

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