It will also include incentives for
upstate nuclear facilities, which provide a significant source of carbon - free
power, but are struggling financially against natural gas
plants.
In one arrangement, Bharara alleges Kelly channeled several hundred thousand dollars to Percoco and his wife in exchange for help building a
power plant in
upstate New York, and for other public assistance the company never received — including a guarantee the state would find a buyer for energy from the
facility, and the closure of the controversial Indian Point
nuclear plant in Westchester, which the governor has advocated for.