Bill Text: NY S07232 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the New York power authority to provide only renewable energy and power to customers and requires such authority to be the sole provider of energy to all state owned and municipal properties.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-13 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S07232 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S07232-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7232

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 13, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SALAZAR -- 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 authorities law, in relation to requiring the
          New York power authority to provide renewable power to all state owned
          and municipal properties

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

     1    Section 1. Section 1005 of the public authorities law  is  amended  by
     2  adding two new subdivisions 28 and 29 to read as follows:
     3    28. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, to be the sole provid-
     4  er of electricity and power to all state owned and municipal properties.
     5    29.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, to, on or after Janu-
     6  ary first, two thousand twenty-five, only generate and transmit  renewa-
     7  ble  power  and  energy  and  the  authority  shall  only plan, finance,
     8  construct, acquire, operate, improve and/or maintain transmission facil-
     9  ities for the purpose of transmitting renewable power and energy includ-
    10  ing, but not limited to, battery energy storage systems, renewable ther-
    11  mal energy technology such  as  heat  pumps,  solar  thermal,  or  other
    12  heating  or  cooling technologies using renewable sources of energy that
    13  do not emit greenhouse gases, or any power or energy created by  renewa-
    14  ble generation projects and facilities.
    15    §  2.  Nothing in this act is intended to limit, impair, or affect the
    16  legal authority of the power authority of the state of  New  York  under
    17  any  other  provision  of title 1 of article 5 of the public authorities
    18  law.
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect two years after it shall have become a
    20  law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13940-03-9