Bill Text: NY A02111 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the public service commission and the New York state energy research and development authority to ensure funds are available to fund programs assisting building owners with installing energy efficient improvements.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-01-06 - ordered to third reading cal.102 [A02111 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A02111-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2111
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 15, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M.  of A. QUART -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRAUN-
         STEIN, LIFTON, OTIS, PERRY, RYAN, SANTABARBARA, SEPULVEDA -- read once
         and referred to the Committee on Energy
       AN ACT to require the public service commission and the New  York  state
         energy  research  and development authority to ensure funds are avail-
         able to fund programs assisting building owners with installing energy
         efficient improvements
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The public service commission and the New York state energy
    2  research  and  development  authority  shall  ensure  that not less than
    3  fifteen million dollars is made available for the  purposes  of  funding
    4  programs  to  assist  residential  and multi-family building owners with
    5  installing improvements to heating and cooling systems with an  emphasis
    6  on  emissions  reductions  and increased efficiency. Heating and cooling
    7  improvement programs established  pursuant  to  this  section  shall  be
    8  designed  to  increase efficiency by at least ten percent or reduce fuel
    9  usage by at least ten percent and lead to  a  significant  reduction  in
   10  carbon emissions as defined by the authority guidelines, developed after
   11  consultation with the department of environmental conservation, provided
   12  that  such  projects  shall have a return on investment of five years or
   13  less.  Such improvements shall include, but shall not be limited to fuel
   14  oil to natural gas conversions or conversions to heating oil number  two
   15  from  heating  oil  number  six  or heating oil number four, through the
   16  installation of a high efficiency boiler or furnace, an  improvement  to
   17  and/or  replacement of a burner in a boiler, or connecting to a district
   18  energy system as defined in this section. For purposes of  this  act,  a
   19  district  energy  system  connection  shall  mean  facilities furnished,
   20  installed and maintained by a district energy customer required for  the
   21  utilization  of  district service including, but not limited to, service
   22  stop valves, meter stop valves, primary and secondary  service  pressure
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD04499-01-5
       A. 2111                             2
    1  reducing  valves,  meter  supports  and  all piping between the point of
    2  service termination and the customer's utilization  equipment,  and  any
    3  other  improvement  to  a heating system that satisfies the criteria set
    4  forth  in this section. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this
    5  section, for boilers that are regulated by the New York city  department
    6  of  environmental  protection, the improvements must result in a signif-
    7  icant reduction of particulate matter that is two and  one-half  microns
    8  or  less in width (commonly referred to as PM 2.5 emissions) of at least
    9  fifty percent.
   10    S 2. The funding stream made available for programs  as  described  in
   11  section  one  of this act may consist of monies derived from assessments
   12  on transmission and distribution companies under direct oversight of the
   13  commission collected on or after July 1, 2006 and  monies  collected  by
   14  auctions  administered  under  the regional greenhouse gas initiative or
   15  any other monies administered by the authority that may be available for
   16  such purpose.
   17    S 3. The president of the New York state energy research and  develop-
   18  ment  authority  shall provide additional definitions and guidelines for
   19  the eligibility of an improvement or project, which shall include defin-
   20  ing the parameters of what constitutes a significant reduction in carbon
   21  emissions for a single family or multiple family dwelling as well as any
   22  and all applicable standards, other than those enumerated in this act.
   23    S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.