NY State Mandates All New Buildings Under 7 Stories Must Be All-Electric Starting 1 Jan 2026

Good luck in Buffalo and way upstate with this for your new home.

It could be chilly in the winter, and the electric bills to keep your struggling heat pump pumping when it’s twenty below?

You only have so many kidneys to sell. Granted – that’s only gonna be necessary if the power stays on.

New York will soon require most new buildings to be fully electric, following a vote by the state Building Code Council, according to the Times Union. Beginning January 2026, gas and oil systems will be banned in newly constructed homes and low-rise buildings, with broader mandates kicking in by 2029.

Supporters say the move helps cut emissions and long-term costs, but critics argue it burdens residents and stresses an already strained power grid. The law includes exceptions for buildings with permits filed before year’s end and does not apply to renovations.

The Mamdani friend who sponsored this abomination is all ‘Weeee!’ She couldn’t be prouder.

I was the original sponsor of AEBA, which passed in the FY24 budget.

I’m incredibly proud of this legislation, which will keep utility costs stable & affordable, while creating 100,000 green jobs and transitioning NY to a future that’s not dependent on fossil fuel. 2/

— Emily Gallagher (@EmilyAssembly) July 25, 2025

Builders are not so sanguine. For starters, they say, that’s a $20,000 premium per house that the booger-eating morons just tacked on.

…As these requirements take affect there is also confusion, frustration, and perhaps costly consequences for new home buyers according to the regional Builders Association.

Buffalo Niagara Building Association President Phil Nanula, who is also President of Essex Homes, says, “New York State … it’s been difficult to get anyone to really listen to any logic on the problems that this poses to us as builders. It was going to create about a $20,000 increase in the cost to build a home.”

The bigger issue – not that pricing isn’t yuge – is that the state of New York is already in a perilous state as far as its own energy generation and capacity are concerned. The green fever dream drive climate cultists have been forcing the shutdowns of reliable fossil fuel generation sources long before any renewable capacity has come online to replace it, and now they’re at the point where they don’t have enough to cover shortfalls in the power supply needs that they have. Every heatwave or frozen snap is heart attack city for utility operators trying to plan around shortages and for outages because of excess demand. The kind that the state used to be able to handle easily.

A year ago, I did a story on Kathy Hochul’s literal attack on natural gas, even after the New York Independent System Operator (ISO) had issued an annual report warning that the state was already dangerously power-poor.

…New York has set a goal for 100 percent clean energy on its grid by 2040 to reduce carbon emissions and slow the progress of climate change. The effort that will require a wide roll-out of renewable energy and the axing of power plants fueled by fossil fuels like natural gas.

In the five years since New York set its clean energy targets, the state lost 5,207 megawatts of fossil-fired power supply versus gaining 2,256 megawatts of clean energy sources like wind and solar, the New York Independent System Operator said in its annual reliability report.

The ISO dashboard clearly illustrates how critical fossil fuels are to the state grid. Rational folks are pointing out that fact in a desperate attempt to stop this calamitous rush to renewable energy and mandated electrification. 

…It must also be pointed out that as the New York State ISO dashboard shows fossil fuels, such as natural gas, are used to produce a major amount of the electrical power. That in turn would be required for the additional power supply for an “All Electric” policy.  

And another state official has also pointed out recently some of the climate l.aw changes may be coming too quick with residents now seeing higher utility bills.  Some utility firms and environmental advocates says the bills reflect efforts to build in enhanced grid reliability and even the higher costs of natural gas.

But some managers concede that higher utility bills also reflect requirements from the State Public Service Commission to build transmission lines to connect upstate renewable energy production facilities to the power grid serving downstate New York. 

Not to mention that NY utility bills are already running half again as much as the national average.

…The 27.2 cents per kWh that New York households paid for electricity in December 2024 was 54.5 percent above the nationwide average cost of 17.6 cents per kWh. Last December, electricity costs in New York were 24.1 cents per kWh, 42.6 percent above the national average of 16.9 cents. Electricity prices in the New York area have been at least 40 percent above the national average over the previous five Decembers.

But ‘WWeeeee!,’ right?

Emily you’re a gullible dupe. Our elctric grid is extremely old and can’t take the lithium batteries, Electric buildings, A.I. ,etc. No one is rebuilding it. If the grid fails they say 99% people will not survive and you call for more electic‼️

— Hyland114 (@culsch) July 26, 2025

Everyone is always hoping someone wakes up.

NYS continues to push people out. The grid can’t withstand much more and I hope folks wake up to the big climate scam before it’s too late. https://t.co/iwmqNtVhP4

— Ben Jay Martin (@benjay_martin) July 28, 2025

It’s only money. The city is just as guilty of piling on.

On the latest edition of Sid and Friends In the Morning:@CurtisSliwa warns that due to NYC’s Local Law 97, condo and co-op owners will soon face $30,000 in retrofit costs to go all-electric.

Listen to the interview on https://t.co/YglQsSpDkm!

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— TalkRadio 77 WABC (@77WABCradio) July 28, 2025

It’s all ‘Weeee!‘ until they’re cold, dark, broke, and whining about what hit them.