Bill Text: NY A04386 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the New York state energy research and development authority to prepare a report regarding the replacement of decommissioned or dormant electric generating sites with renewable energy development and energy storage opportunities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2023-11-17 - tabled [A04386 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A04386-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4386 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 14, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, SIMON, L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Energy AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to directing the New York state energy research and development authority to prepare a report regarding the replacement of decommissioned or dormant electric generating sites with renewable energy development and energy storage opportunities The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1902 of the public authorities law 2 is amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows: 3 (c) Within eighteen months of the effective date of this paragraph, 4 the authority shall prepare a report to be submitted to the governor, 5 the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly, 6 that at a minimum contains: 7 (i) a survey of decommissioned or dormant electric generating sites in 8 the state, and plants expected to be decommissioned or dormant in the 9 next eighteen months; 10 (ii) an identification of renewable energy development and energy 11 storage opportunities at each such decommissioned or dormant electric 12 generating sites, and whether such site should be a build ready site, 13 and if not, why not; 14 (iii) an assessment of the economic impacts on affected communities of 15 repowering dormant electric generating sites with renewable energy, and 16 energy storage projects, including impacts to the local tax base and 17 local employment; and 18 (iv) an assessment of the impacts on electric system reliability. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however that 20 the amendments to section 1902 of the public authorities law made by 21 section one of this act shall not affect the expiration and repeal of 22 such section and shall expire and be deemed repealed therewith. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05814-01-3