Bill Text: NY S02085 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes new targets for offshore wind electricity generation; includes the requirements that there is at least 15 gigawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by 2040, at least 18 gigawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by 2045 and at least 20 gigawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by 2050.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 26-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-15 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S02085 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S02085-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2085

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 15, 2025
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        Introduced  by Sens. KAVANAGH, ADDABBO, ASHBY, BRISPORT, CLEARE, COMRIE,
          COONEY, FERNANDEZ, GONZALEZ, GOUNARDES, HARCKHAM, HINCHEY, HOYLMAN-SI-
          GAL, JACKSON, KRUEGER, LIU, MAY, MAYER, MYRIE, PALUMBO, PARKER,  SALA-
          ZAR,  SANDERS,  SEPULVEDA,  SERRANO,  SKOUFIS,  WEBB -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Energy and Telecommunications

        AN  ACT  to amend the public service law and the environmental conserva-
          tion law, in relation to establishing new targets  for  offshore  wind
          electricity generation

          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 137 of the public service law,  as
     2  added  by  section  11  of  part O of chapter 58 of the laws of 2024, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    1. "CLCPA targets" shall mean the public policies established  in  the
     5  climate  leadership  and community protection act enacted in chapter one
     6  hundred six of the laws of two  thousand  nineteen,  including  but  not
     7  limited  to  the  requirement  that  a minimum of seventy percent of the
     8  statewide electric generation be produced by renewable energy systems by
     9  two thousand thirty, that by the year two thousand forty  the  statewide
    10  electrical  demand system will generate zero emissions, and the procure-
    11  ment of at least nine gigawatts of offshore wind electricity  generation
    12  by two thousand thirty-five, at least fifteen gigawatts of offshore wind
    13  electricity  generation  by  two thousand forty, at least eighteen giga-
    14  watts of offshore wind electricity generation  by  two  thousand  forty-
    15  five,  at least twenty gigawatts of offshore wind electricity generation
    16  by two thousand fifty, six gigawatts of photovoltaic solar generation by
    17  two thousand twenty-five and to support  three  gigawatts  of  statewide
    18  energy storage capacity by two thousand thirty.
    19    § 2. Subdivision 5 of section 66-p of the public service law, as added
    20  by chapter 106 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00195-03-5
        S. 2085                             2

     1    5.  No later than July first, two thousand twenty-four, the commission
     2  shall establish programs to require the procurement by the state's  load
     3  serving entities of at least nine gigawatts of offshore wind electricity
     4  generation  by  two  thousand thirty-five, at least fifteen gigawatts of
     5  offshore  wind  electricity  generation  by two thousand forty, at least
     6  eighteen gigawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by two  thou-
     7  sand  forty-five, at least twenty gigawatts of offshore wind electricity
     8  generation by two thousand fifty,  and  six  gigawatts  of  photovoltaic
     9  solar generation by two thousand twenty-five, and to support three giga-
    10  watts of statewide energy storage capacity by two thousand thirty.
    11    §  3. Paragraph e of subdivision 13 of section 75-0103 of the environ-
    12  mental conservation law, as added by chapter 106 of the laws of 2019, is
    13  amended to read as follows:
    14    e. Measures to achieve  six  gigawatts  of  distributed  solar  energy
    15  capacity  installed in the state by two thousand twenty-five, nine giga-
    16  watts of offshore wind capacity installed by two  thousand  thirty-five,
    17  at  least  fifteen  gigawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by
    18  two thousand forty, at least eighteen gigawatts of  offshore wind  elec-
    19  tricity  generation  by  two  thousand forty-five and  at  least  twenty
    20  gigawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by two thousand fifty,
    21  a  statewide  energy efficiency goal of one hundred eighty-five trillion
    22  British thermal units energy reduction from the two thousand twenty-five
    23  forecast; and three gigawatts of statewide energy  storage  capacity  by
    24  two thousand thirty.
    25    §  4.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
    26  the amendments to subdivision 1 of section 137 of the public service law
    27  made by section one of this act shall not  affect  the  repeal  of  such
    28  section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.