Tony Smith, chair of the Virginia Distributed Solar Alliance, told Utility Dive that other states can learn from New York’s policies that “reduce soft costs, provide investment certainty, and remove utility-specific interconnection barriers.”
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Tony Smith, chair of the Virginia Distributed Solar Alliance, told Utility Dive that other states can learn from New York’s success.
Published July 9, 2026
A rooftop solar installation against the backdrop of the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building in midtown Manhattan. New York has more than 276,000 distributed solar projects, with another 2.7 GW of capacity currently in development.
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