Bill Text: NY S03540 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires developers of offshore wind renewable energy projects receiving state financial support for such projects to use New York-based manufacturers that have labor peace agreements with employees, ensuring uninterrupted supply of equipment for such projects.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S03540 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03540-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3540

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 31, 2023
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        Introduced  by Sens. BRESLIN, GOUNARDES, HINCHEY, STAVISKY -- 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, in relation to  requirements  of
          developers  of offshore wind renewable energy projects receiving state
          financial support for such projects

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

     1    Section  1.   Subdivision 5 of section 66-p of the public service law,
     2  as added by chapter 106 of the laws of  2019,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    5. (a) No later than July first, two thousand twenty-four, the commis-
     5  sion  shall establish programs to require the procurement by the state's
     6  load serving entities of at least nine gigawatts of offshore wind  elec-
     7  tricity  generation  by  two  thousand  thirty-five and six gigawatts of
     8  photovoltaic solar  generation  by  two  thousand  twenty-five,  and  to
     9  support  three  gigawatts  of  statewide  energy storage capacity by two
    10  thousand thirty.
    11    (b) The commission and the New York state energy research and develop-
    12  ment authority shall not enter into any contract or other agreement with
    13  a developer of an offshore wind  electricity  generation  project  under
    14  which  the  commission  and/or  the  New  York state energy research and
    15  development authority provide  support  for  such  project  through  the
    16  purchase of renewable energy credits or through any other form of finan-
    17  cial  support,  unless  such  developer  shall  agree: (i) that the wind
    18  turbines and equipment used in such project shall  be  manufactured  and
    19  produced  in New York state, to the maximum extent feasible; and (ii) to
    20  procure the wind turbines and equipment used  in  such  project  from  a
    21  manufacturer  or  manufacturers that shall have a labor peace agreement,
    22  with a union representing the employees  engaged  in  such  manufacture,
    23  ensuring the uninterrupted supply of such wind turbines and equipment.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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