NY State Senate Bill 2019-S7232

Senate Bill S7232

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring the New York power authority to provide renewable power to all state owned and municipal properties

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Energy And Telecommunications Committee

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Jan 13, 2020	referred to energy and telecommunications

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2019-S7232 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A8938
Current Committee:: Senate Energy And Telecommunications
Law Section:: Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §1005, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:: S7232, A8938

2019-S7232 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2019-S7232 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S7232

SPONSOR: SALAZAR
 
TITLE OF BILL:

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

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

To require the New York Power Authority to provide renewable energy to
State owned properties.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends Section 1005 of the public authorities law by adding
new subdivisions 28 and 29. Subdivision 28 makes the New York Power
Authority the sole provider, notwithstanding any other provision of law,
of all electricity and power to state owned properties. Section 29
limits the New York power authority to the generation and distribution

of only renewable energy by January first, two-thousand and twenty-five.
It likewise requires the authority shall only plan, finance, construct,
acquire, operate, improve and/or maintain transmission facilities for
the purpose of transmitting renewable power and energy and renewable
generation projects and facilities.

Section 2 makes clear that nothing in the previous sections is intended
to limit, impair, or affect the legal authority of the power authority
of New York under any other provisions of tile 1 of article 5 of the
public authorities law.

Section 3 states the act shall take effect two years after becoming law.
 
JUSTIFICATION:

This bill follows the SUNY clean energy roadmap template, which gave
campuses a year and a half to demonstrate a plan for how they would get
to 100% renewable energy. This bill expands the roadmap to all state and
municipally owned properties, ensuring they receive 100% renewable ener-
gy from NYPA by 2025.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

This is a new bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Two years from the date enacted.

2019-S7232 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7232
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             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:
 
   Section 1. Section 1005 of the public authorities law  is  amended  by
 adding two new subdivisions 28 and 29 to read as follows:
   28. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, TO BE THE SOLE PROVID-
 ER OF ELECTRICITY AND POWER TO ALL STATE OWNED AND MUNICIPAL PROPERTIES.
   29.  NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, TO, ON OR AFTER JANU-
 ARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE, ONLY GENERATE AND TRANSMIT  RENEWA-
 BLE  POWER  AND  ENERGY  AND  THE  AUTHORITY  SHALL  ONLY PLAN, FINANCE,
 CONSTRUCT, ACQUIRE, OPERATE, IMPROVE AND/OR MAINTAIN TRANSMISSION FACIL-
 ITIES FOR THE PURPOSE OF TRANSMITTING RENEWABLE POWER AND ENERGY INCLUD-
 ING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS, RENEWABLE THER-
 MAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY SUCH  AS  HEAT  PUMPS,  SOLAR  THERMAL,  OR  OTHER
 HEATING  OR  COOLING TECHNOLOGIES USING RENEWABLE SOURCES OF ENERGY THAT
 DO NOT EMIT GREENHOUSE GASES, OR ANY POWER OR ENERGY CREATED BY  RENEWA-
 BLE GENERATION PROJECTS AND FACILITIES.
   §  2.  Nothing in this act is intended to limit, impair, or affect the
 legal authority of the power authority of the state of  New  York  under
 any  other  provision  of title 1 of article 5 of the public authorities
 law.
   § 3. This act shall take effect two years after it shall have become a
 law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13940-03-9

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Sponsored By

Julia Salazar

Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Energy And Telecommunications Committee

co-Sponsors

Alessandra Biaggi

Michael Gianaris

Zellnor Myrie

James Sanders Jr.

2019-S7232 (ACTIVE) - Details

2019-S7232 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2019-S7232 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S7232 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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