Bill Text: NY S08189 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Directs the New York state energy and research development authority to establish a pilot program to install a microgrid in Glenwood Houses; requires the authority to annually report on the results of such program and any recommendations for expansion.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-10 - PRINT NUMBER 8189A [S08189 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08189-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8189--A

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 11, 2024
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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 -- reported favorably from said committee and committed to the
          Committee  on  Finance  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT in relation to directing the New York state energy  research  and
          development authority to establish a pilot program to install a micro-
          grid in Glenwood Houses

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

     1    Section 1. 1. No later than one hundred eighty days after  the  effec-
     2  tive  date  of this act, the New York state energy research and develop-
     3  ment authority shall establish, within amounts appropriated therefor,  a
     4  pilot program to install a microgrid in Glenwood Houses in Kings county.
     5  Such  microgrid  shall  be used for local energy production and distrib-
     6  ution which can function independently if  disconnected  from  the  main
     7  electricity  grid  or  a  supplement  for peaks in demand. The microgrid
     8  shall be powered by renewable energy sources including but  not  limited
     9  to solar panels, hydrogen or wind, and energy efficient generators which
    10  shall  be  combined with energy storage units such as batteries with low
    11  environmental impacts.
    12    2. The authority shall provide an annual report on or before the first
    13  day of January to the governor, the temporary president  of  the  senate
    14  and  the speaker of the assembly, on the pilot program and any recommen-
    15  dations for expansion of such pilot program.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    17  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14008-02-4