Bill Text: NY S00607 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 607 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to the definition of alternate energy production facilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-02 - SUBSTITUTED BY A3656A [S00607 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S00607-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          607
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 5, 2011
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  Sen. MAZIARZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
         cations
       AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to the definition of
         alternate energy production facilities
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 2-b of section 2 of the public service law,  as
    2  amended  by  chapter  212  of  the  laws  of 2010, is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    2-b. The term "alternate energy production  facility,"  when  used  in
    5  this  chapter,  includes any solar, wind turbine, fuel cell, tidal, wave
    6  energy, waste management resource recovery,  refuse-derived  fuel,  wood
    7  burning  facility, LITHIUM ION ENERGY BATTERIES, or kinetic energy stor-
    8  age device utilizing flywheels or  compressed  air,  together  with  any
    9  related  facilities  located  at the same project site, with an electric
   10  generating capacity of up to eighty megawatts, which produces  electric-
   11  ity, gas or useful thermal energy.
   12    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
   13  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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