Bill Text: NY A04386 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 4386

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
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                                          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.
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