Princeton did a study that found that areas with geographic features such as lakes, waterfronts, and mountains are more resistant to renewable installations. Unfortunately for NY, that is most of the geography of the state.
Notable in the statistics copied below is that of the people that cared enough to vote, 8% more were against the renewables and almost two-thirds of the people didn’t care enough to vote. See below in italics.
The net result is that only 16.6% , or one out of every six people voted to install the arrays. (46% x 36%), while 19.4%, about one in five, voted against them.
If a referendum were held in NY State in each municipality, how many would vote in favor of installations near them. If Greenburgh, NY is any indicator there won’t be many. They rejected an 11 Megawatt Array in 2019 on vacant land.
Downstate doesn’t want them or can’t fit them and expects the upstate region to bear the burden of them. As the systems proliferate, that is not going to play out very well.
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Southern Swiss region rejects a plan to fast-track big solar parks on Alpine mountainsides
Netscape Money & Business
09/10/2023 12:57 -0400
GENEVA (AP) — Voters in a southern Swiss region on Sunday rejected a plan to allow large solar parks on their sun-baked Alpine mountainsides as part of the federal government’s push to develop renewable energy sources.
The referendum in the Valais canton centered on economic and environmental interests at a time of high and rising concerns about climate change. The canton wrote on its official website that 53.94% voted against the proposal. Turnout was 35.72%.