{"id":312987,"date":"2026-08-04T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312987\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T00:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T00:00:11","slug":"ippny-opposes-large-scale-power-generation-by-utilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312987\/","title":{"rendered":"IPPNY opposes large scale power generation by utilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid a summer with a fair share of very hot days which have pushed the state\u2019s power grid to produce near-record high levels of energy, private utility companies are pushing to change state law to allow those companies to get back into owning large-scale power generation operations.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 30 years ago, then-Gov. George Pataki, a Republican, signed legislation that forced these companies to sell their power plants to help bolster competition.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Independent Power Producers of New York launched a six-figure ad campaign to highlight their opposition to these proposals.<\/p>\n<p>Gavin Donohue, head of the Independent Power Producers of New York, joined Capital Tonight to discuss that position and what measures he feels could better address energy costs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/nys-capital-tonight-time-graphic-promo960x540jpgjpg.jpeg\" class=\"hashed-image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-fifty\" alt=\"\" img-data-wrap-text=\"false\" img-data-editing=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amid a summer with a fair share of very hot days which have pushed the state\u2019s power grid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[206,205,109,116,288,204,202,295,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,112,87,27,200],"class_list":["post-312987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-albany-capital-region","tag-app-capital-tonight","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","tag-business","tag-capital-tonight","tag-capital-tonight-interviews","tag-jack-arpey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-ny-state-of-politics","tag-politics","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}