Bill Text: NY S02585 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes a program for eligible zero emissions energy systems to promote private sector investment for the purpose of meeting the target that by the year two thousand forty the statewide electrical demand system will be zero emissions.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S02585 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02585-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2585--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 23, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
          cations  --  committee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation  to  establishing  a
          program for eligible zero emissions energy systems

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

     1    Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a  new  section
     2  66-u to read as follows:
     3    §  66-u.  Establishment of a zero emissions energy systems program. 1.
     4  As used in this section:
     5    (a) "zero emissions energy systems" means systems, other than  renewa-
     6  ble  energy systems, that generate electricity or thermal energy through
     7  the use of technologies that do not lead to a net increase in greenhouse
     8  gas emissions into the atmosphere at any time in the process of generat-
     9  ing electricity;
    10    (b) "renewable energy systems" shall  have  the  meaning  provided  in
    11  section sixty-six-p of this article; and
    12    (c)  "greenhouse  gas"  shall  have  the  meaning  provided in section
    13  75-0101 of the environmental conservation law.
    14    2. No later than one year from the effective date of this section, the
    15  commission shall establish a  competitive  program  to  promote  private
    16  sector  investment in a minimum of one gigawatt of installed capacity of
    17  zero emissions energy systems that use eligible  technologies  that  the
    18  commission  has  determined, after notice and provision for the opportu-
    19  nity to comment, are operationally capable  by  the  year  two  thousand
    20  thirty  of  providing the operating flexibility and longer-term perform-
    21  ance that the electric grid system will require.  The commission  shall:
    22  (a)  establish a competitive program, after notice and provision for the
    23  opportunity to comment, for the purpose of  meeting  the  target  estab-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  lished  pursuant to section sixty-six-p of this article that by the year
     2  two thousand forty the statewide electrical demand system will  be  zero
     3  emissions;  (b) commence the implementation of the program no later than
     4  two  years from the effective date of this section; and (c) require that
     5  zero emissions energy systems subject to the provisions of this  section
     6  shall commence commercial operation by the year two thousand thirty.
     7    3.  The commission may temporarily modify the obligations under such a
     8  program upon its finding that the program: impedes the provision of safe
     9  and adequate electric services; is  likely  to  impair  obligations  and
    10  agreements;  and/or  results  in  a  significant  increase in arrears or
    11  service disconnections that the commission determines are related to the
    12  program.
    13    4. No later than three years from the effective date of  this  section
    14  and  every two years thereafter, or upon modification of the obligations
    15  under the program, the commission shall conduct a  comprehensive  review
    16  and  issue a written assessment of the program to determine, among other
    17  matters, progress in meeting the target for the deployment of zero emis-
    18  sions energy systems.
    19    § 2. The public service law is amended by adding a new section 66-v to
    20  read as follows:
    21    § 66-v. Requirements for zero emissions energy  systems.  1.  For  the
    22  purposes of this section, "zero emissions energy systems" shall have the
    23  same  meaning  as  in paragraph (a) of subdivision one of section sixty-
    24  six-u of this article and as determined by the  commission  pursuant  to
    25  subdivision two of section sixty-six-u of this article.
    26    2.  As  part of the competitive program the commission establishes and
    27  implements pursuant to section sixty-six-u of this article, the owner of
    28  the zero emissions energy system, or a third party acting on the owner's
    29  behalf, as an ongoing condition of any agreement with  a  public  entity
    30  that  implements  the provisions of section sixty-six-u of this article,
    31  shall comply with the provisions of section sixty-six-r of this  article
    32  and section two hundred twenty-four-d of the labor law.
    33    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.