Bill Text: NY A10365 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes and directs the public service commission to conduct a study on the deployment of energy interconnection processes into the electrical grid to meet the state's renewable energy goals set out under the climate leadership and community protection act; directs the public service commission to submit a report on its findings one year after the effective date.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-21 - referred to energy [A10365 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10365-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10365

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 21, 2024
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Stirpe) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Energy

        AN ACT to authorize and direct the public service commission to  conduct
          a study on the deployment of energy interconnection processes into the
          electrical grid

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Study. The public  service  commission  is  authorized  and
     2  directed  to  conduct a study on the regulatory barriers, if any, to the
     3  rapid deployment of energy interconnection processes in the  state  that
     4  shall include, but not be limited to:
     5    (a)  Potential changes to the interconnection process to rapidly bring
     6  new renewable energy resources onto the  electrical  grid  to  meet  the
     7  state's  renewable energy goals set out under the climate leadership and
     8  community protection act, as amended;
     9    (b) The state's ability  to  comply  with  goals  established  in  the
    10  climate  leadership  and  community  protection  act,  as  amended, with
    11  current energy interconnection process timelines, including  the  effect
    12  of  recent  reforms  by the New York Independent System Operator and any
    13  additional anticipated reforms;
    14    (c) The experience of other interconnection systems using "Connect and
    15  Manage" or other alternative connection agreements in terms of the speed
    16  of resource deployments and electrical grid reliability;
    17    (d) The extent to which the studies  and  network  upgrades  currently
    18  required for Energy Resource Interconnection Service projects in the New
    19  York  Independent  System  Operator go beyond the minimal set of studies
    20  and network upgrades needed to safely operate  the  system  with  a  new
    21  resource, in comparison to the United Kingdom's Enabling Works approach;
    22    (e)  Whether it is possible to identify more efficient system upgrades
    23  in the context of the New York Independent System Operator comprehensive
    24  system  planning  process  rather  than  certain  studies  and  upgrades
    25  currently in the energy interconnection process;
    26    (f)  Whether  projects  that  initially  join  the  system with Energy
    27  Resource Interconnection Service status can be elevated to  the  Network

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  Resource  Interconnection  Service  status  upon  completion of relevant
     2  network upgrades, to determine if there is a mechanism by which  genera-
     3  tors  could  be  allocated  part  of  the cost of such upgrades, if such
     4  upgrades  are  completed  via  the comprehensive system planning process
     5  rather than the energy interconnection process;
     6    (g) Improvements to the interconnection process for  qualified  energy
     7  storage  systems as defined by subdivision 1 of section 74 of the public
     8  service law; and
     9    (h) Whether any changes identified in this study at  the  transmission
    10  level would also improve processes at the distribution level.
    11    §  2.  Report. No later than one year after the effective date of this
    12  act, the public service commission shall submit  to  the  governor,  the
    13  speaker  of  the  assembly  and the temporary president of the senate, a
    14  report assessing its findings under  the  study  conducted  pursuant  to
    15  section  one  of  this act, and any recommendations to rapidly bring new
    16  renewable energy resources onto the electrical grid to meet the  state's
    17  renewable energy goals set out under the climate leadership and communi-
    18  ty protection act, as amended.
    19    §  3.  Definitions.  For the purposes of this act, the following terms
    20  shall have the following meanings:
    21    (a) "Energy interconnection process" means the process of  integrating
    22  new  sources  of renewable energy resources, as defined by section 1-103
    23  of the energy law, into the electrical grid.
    24    (b) "Electrical grid" means the network of electric plants  and  other
    25  electric  generating  facilities  and  equipment, and electricity trans-
    26  mission and distribution systems in the state.
    27    (c) "Renewable energy  resources"  shall  have  the  same  meaning  as
    28  defined by section 1-103 of the energy law.
    29    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.