Bill Text: NY A05680 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes fuel-flexible linear generators which do not utilize a fossil fuel resource in the process of generating electricity as qualifying as renewable energy systems.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to energy [A05680 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05680-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5680

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 20, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. BARRETT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Energy

        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to the definition of
          renewable energy systems

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision  1 of section 66-p of the
     2  public service law, as added by chapter 106 of  the  laws  of  2019,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (b) "renewable energy systems" means systems that generate electricity
     5  or thermal energy through use of the following technologies: solar ther-
     6  mal, photovoltaics, on land and offshore wind, hydroelectric, geothermal
     7  electric,  geothermal  ground  source  heat,  tidal energy, wave energy,
     8  ocean thermal, [and] fuel cells which  do  not  utilize  a  fossil  fuel
     9  resource  in  the  process  of generating electricity, and fuel-flexible
    10  linear generators which do not utilize a fossil  fuel  resource  in  the
    11  process of generating electricity.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07858-01-3