Nope, that would imply that the money is not really there. The emissions controls makes the money available and therefore profitability for the utility even if it is not from raw production. The only strawman argument is at the root here, Climate Change (AGT) is the fallacy or at least the alarmist version of it in my opinion but that is a debate for PolySci. RECs makes wind and solar financially viable ZECs make nuclear financially viable were available. Money in the black column is still credit not debit on the spreadsheets.
I am not following your post,....
credits (recs/zecs/etc.) Are subsidies,....
subsidies based on strawman science,....
the money is not "there", the money is expropriated by strawman justifications,....
what NY has done is simple,...
NY has realized the futility of the earlier strawman but refuses to be " retroprogressive",....
so, as cold reality settles in NY concedes to grid stability with ZECs for nuclear,....