Bill Text: NY A07674 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority to conduct an analysis of the potential impacts of participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative by out of state generators and also a cost benefit analysis of all of the programs associated with the program as it currently operates.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to energy [A07674 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A07674-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7674
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 30, 2013
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       Introduced  by M. of A. SIMOTAS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Energy
       AN ACT directing the New York  state  energy  research  and  development
         authority  to  conduct an analysis of the potential impacts of partic-
         ipation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas  Initiative  by  out  of  state
         generators
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The New York state energy research and development authori-
    2  ty shall, within ninety days of the effective date of this act, issue  a
    3  request for proposals to conduct an analysis of the potential impacts of
    4  participation  in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative by out of state
    5  generators and also a cost benefit analysis of all of the programs asso-
    6  ciated with the program as it currently operates.  Such  analysis  shall
    7  include but not be limited to the following:
    8    1.  An  analysis  of  the feasibility and potential impacts, including
    9  those on competitive markets and possible methodologies  that  could  be
   10  employed  to  either require out of state generators who export power to
   11  the state to participate in the auction  associated  with  the  Regional
   12  Greenhouse  Gas  Initiative  or impose charges on such power, or utilize
   13  other methods to ensure equitable  treatment  for  generators  operating
   14  inside and outside the state; and
   15    2. An examination of the costs associated with the Regional Greenhouse
   16  Gas Initiative, including a breakdown in the aggregate of the allowances
   17  purchased organized by county of origin, as well as a specific breakdown
   18  of the money spent from all of the programs associated with the Regional
   19  Greenhouse  Gas  Initiative, including financial assistance provided and
   20  projects constructed in each region since the inception of each program,
   21  and a comprehensive analysis of jobs lost and gained as a result of  the
   22  programs associated with the charges associated with the auction and the
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1  projects  undertaken  with such proceeds, and any impacts on competitive
    2  markets as well as any direct ratepayer impacts.
    3    S  2.  The  analyses  required  by  this act shall be submitted to the
    4  governor, the temporary president of the  senate,  the  speaker  of  the
    5  assembly,  the  chair of the senate committee on energy and telecommuni-
    6  cations and the chair of the assembly energy committee,  no  later  than
    7  March 1, 2014.
    8    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.