Bill Text: NY S07109 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes fuel-flexible linear generators which do not utilize a fossil fuel resource in the process of generating electricity as qualifying as renewable energy systems.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-06 - RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN [S07109 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07109-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7109

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 18, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- 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
          renewable energy systems

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision  1  of  section  66-p  of  the
     2  public  service  law,  as  added  by chapter 106 of the laws of 2019, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (b) "renewable energy systems" means systems that generate electricity
     5  or thermal energy through use of the following technologies: solar ther-
     6  mal, photovoltaics, on land and offshore wind, hydroelectric, geothermal
     7  electric, geothermal ground source  heat,  tidal  energy,  wave  energy,
     8  ocean  thermal,  [and]  fuel  cells  which  do not utilize a fossil fuel
     9  resource in the process of  generating  electricity,  and  fuel-flexible
    10  linear  generators  which  do  not utilize a fossil fuel resource in the
    11  process of generating electricity.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07858-01-3