Bill Text: NY S08602 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the energy storage deployment policy.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - SUBSTITUTED BY A11099 [S08602 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8602
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 10, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  GRIFFO -- 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 establishing the
          energy storage deployment policy
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 74 of the public service law, as amended by a chap-
     2  ter  of  the laws of 2018 amending the public service law and the public
     3  authorities law relating to establishing the energy  storage  deployment
     4  program,  as  proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 7318 and A. 8921,
     5  is amended to read as follows:
     6    § 74. Energy storage deployment policy. 1.   As used in  this  section
     7  "qualified  energy  storage  system"  shall  mean commercially available
     8  technology that is capable of absorbing energy, storing it for a  period
     9  of  time, and thereafter dispatching the energy using mechanical, chemi-
    10  cal, or thermal processes to store energy that was generated at one time
    11  for use at a later time.
    12    2.  By December thirty-first, two thousand  eighteen,  the  commission
    13  shall,  in  consultation  with  the  New  York state energy research and
    14  development authority [and], the Long Island power  authority,  and  the
    15  federally  designated  electric bulk system operator for New York state,
    16  after a hearing held on notice, establish  by  order,  rules  and  regu-
    17  lations,  both  a  two thousand thirty energy storage goal for the state
    18  and a deployment policy to support that goal. The energy storage deploy-
    19  ment policy shall [include the  following]  assist  with  and  take  the
    20  following into consideration:
    21    (a)  avoided  or deferred costs associated with transmission, distrib-
    22  ution, [or] and/or generation capacity;
    23    (b) minimization of peak load in constrained areas;
    24    (c) systems that are connected to customer facilities and systems that
    25  are directly connected to transmission and distribution facilities;
    26    (d) cost-effectiveness;
    27    (e) assisting the integration of variable-output energy resources;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 8602                             2
     1    (f) reducing emissions of greenhouse gases;
     2    (g) reducing demand for peak electrical generation; [and]
     3    (h) improving the reliable operation of the electrical transmission or
     4  distribution systems; and
     5    (i) such other issues deemed appropriate by the commission.
     6    3. To the extent that the energy storage deployment policy directs the
     7  procurement  of, or any payments to, qualified energy storage systems to
     8  encourage their deployment, such  procurements  and  payments  shall  be
     9  awarded through a competitive process.
    10    4.  Annual reports on the achievements and effectiveness of the policy
    11  [to] shall be submitted to the governor, the temporary president of  the
    12  senate, and the speaker of the assembly[; and
    13    (j) Such other issues deemed appropriate by the commission].
    14    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    15  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2018 amending the public service  law
    16  and the public authorities law relating to establishing the energy stor-
    17  age deployment program, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 7318
    18  and A. 8921, takes effect.