Bill Text: NY A03788 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires developers of offshore wind renewable energy projects receiving state financial support for such projects to use New York-based manufacturers that have labor peace agreements with employees, ensuring uninterrupted supply of equipment for such projects.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to energy [A03788 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03788-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3788

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 8, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  FAHY,  STECK, SIMON, THIELE, STERN, JACKSON,
          GONZALEZ-ROJAS, LUNSFORD, SANTABARBARA -- read once  and  referred  to
          the Committee on Energy

        AN  ACT  to amend the public service law, in relation to requirements of
          developers of offshore wind renewable energy projects receiving  state
          financial support for such projects

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

     1    Section 1.  Subdivision 5 of section 66-p of the public  service  law,
     2  as  added  by  chapter  106  of  the laws of 2019, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    5. (a) No later than July first, two thousand twenty-four, the commis-
     5  sion shall establish programs to require the procurement by the  state's
     6  load  serving entities of at least nine gigawatts of offshore wind elec-
     7  tricity generation by two thousand  thirty-five  and  six  gigawatts  of
     8  photovoltaic  solar  generation  by  two  thousand  twenty-five,  and to
     9  support three gigawatts of statewide  energy  storage  capacity  by  two
    10  thousand thirty.
    11    (b) The commission and the New York state energy research and develop-
    12  ment authority shall not enter into any contract or other agreement with
    13  a  developer  of  an  offshore wind electricity generation project under
    14  which the commission and/or the  New  York  state  energy  research  and
    15  development  authority  provide  support  for  such  project through the
    16  purchase of renewable energy credits or through any other form of finan-
    17  cial support, unless such developer  shall  agree:  (i)  that  the  wind
    18  turbines  and  equipment  used in such project shall be manufactured and
    19  produced in New York state, to the maximum extent feasible; and (ii)  to
    20  procure  the  wind  turbines  and  equipment used in such project from a
    21  manufacturer or manufacturers that shall have a labor  peace  agreement,
    22  with  a  union  representing  the employees engaged in such manufacture,
    23  ensuring the uninterrupted supply of such wind turbines and equipment.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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