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

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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-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3656
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 26, 2011
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       Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Energy
       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 BATTERIES,
    8  FLOW BATTERIES, flywheels or compressed air, together with  any  related
    9  facilities located at the same project site, with an electric generating
   10  capacity  of  up to eighty megawatts, which produces electricity, gas or
   11  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.
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