Bill Text: NY A03656 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Relates to the definition of alternate energy production facilities.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2011-03-25 - signed chap.6 [A03656 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A03656-Amended.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        3656--A
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 26, 2011
                                      ___________
       Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on  Energy -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
         amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to the definition of
         alternate energy production facilities
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Subdivision 2-b of section 2 of the public service law, as
    2  amended by chapter 212 of the laws  of  2010,  is  amended  to  read  as
    3  follows:
    4    2-b.  The  term  "alternate  energy production facility," when used in
    5  this chapter, includes any solar, wind turbine, fuel cell,  tidal,  wave
    6  energy,  waste  management  resource recovery, refuse-derived fuel, wood
    7  burning  facility,  or  [kinetic]  energy   storage   device   utilizing
    8  BATTERIES,  FLOW  BATTERIES,  flywheels or compressed air, together with
    9  any related facilities located at the same project site, with  an  elec-
   10  tric generating capacity of up to eighty megawatts, which produces elec-
   11  tricity, gas or useful thermal energy.
   12    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
   13  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD04684-04-1
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