Bill Text: NY S08310 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Adds lithium ion energy batteries to the definition of alternate energy production facilities.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-06-30 - referred to energy [S08310 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S08310-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                     June 22, 2010
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       Introduced  by Sens. AUBERTINE, MAZIARZ -- read twice and ordered print-
         ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
       AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to the definition of
         alternate energy production facilities
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Subdivision 2-b of section 2 of the public service law, as
    2  amended by chapter 276 of the laws  of  2009,  is  amended  to  read  as
    3  follows:
    4    2-b.  The term "alternate energy production facility,"[,] when used in
    5  this chapter, includes any solar, wind turbine, fuel cell,  tidal,  wave
    6  energy,  waste  management  resource recovery, refuse-derived fuel [or],
    7  wood burning facility, OR LITHIUM ION ENERGY  BATTERIES,  together  with
    8  any  related  facilities located at the same project site, with an elec-
    9  tric generating capacity of up to eighty megawatts, which produces elec-
   10  tricity, gas or useful thermal energy.
   11    S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
   12  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD16855-04-0
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