Bill Text: NY A10617 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the New York state energy research and development authority conduct a study on the feasibility, storing and transferring of hydrogen energy to residential and commercial structures in cities and towns with a population greater than twenty thousand.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-20 - referred to energy [A10617 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10617-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10617

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 20, 2024
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Santabar-
          bara) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Energy

        AN ACT directing the New York  state  energy  research  and  development
          authority  study the feasibility of creating, storing and transferring
          hydrogen energy to residential and commercial structures

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

     1    Section 1. For the purposes of this act, "municipality" shall mean any
     2  city or town with a population greater than 20,000.
     3    §  2.  The New York state energy research and development authority is
     4  authorized and directed to study the feasibility  of  creating,  storing
     5  and  transferring  hydrogen  energy to residential and commercial struc-
     6  tures in municipalities. Such study shall include, but  not  be  limited
     7  to:
     8    (a)  the ability of municipalities to power residential and commercial
     9  structures via hydrogen power;
    10    (b) the effectiveness of hydrogen power in supplementing or  supplant-
    11  ing the electrical grids of municipalities;
    12    (c) the cost of building hydrogen power plants in municipalities;
    13    (d) the cost of storing power generated by hydrogen power; and
    14    (e) the cost of transferring hydrogen power to residential and commer-
    15  cial structures in municipalities.
    16    §  3.  The  New  York  state energy research and development authority
    17  shall make a report to the governor and the legislature of its findings,
    18  conclusions, and recommendations no  later  than  15  months  after  the
    19  effective date of this act and shall submit with this report such legis-
    20  lative proposals as it deems necessary to implement its recommendations.
    21    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14028-01-4