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 ________________________________________________________________________ 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