President Obama has made fighting climate change his top priority in the last two years of his presidency - renewable energies would receive new capital investments and existing incentives would be strengthened.

In the fiscal 2016 budget, Obama is proposing $7.4 billion in funding for clean energy (a 7% increase from the 2015 budget) and an additional $4 billion fund to encourage US states to transition away from coal more quickly.  The budget highlights a fiscal argument to fight global warming:  the United States has taken on over $300 billion in direct costs resulting from extreme weather and fire in the past decade.

Widely applauded by the wind and solar industries, Obama's budget also calls 

The New York Public Service Commission set aside $279 million in incentives over the next five years for small-scale renewable energy projects. About $170 million of the total has been tagged for solar-technology projects. The Commission’s approval came on March 25.