Assembly Bill A9392

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Adds waste to energy systems to the definition of renewables

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A9392 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Energy
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §66-p, Pub Serv L; amd §1-103, Energy L; amd §§72-0301 & 75-0101, En Con L; amd §119-ff, Gen Muni L

2021-A9392 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Adds waste to energy to the definition of renewable energy systems; defines waste to energy to mean thermal and non-thermal technologies that are able to produce energy from waste without direct combustion; defines biogas to include a mixture of gases produced from raw materials such as agricultural waste, manure, plant material, green waste and food waste.

2021-A9392 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9392
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 23, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  WOERNER,  LUPARDO,  BARRETT -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Energy
 
 AN ACT to amend the public service law, the  energy  law,  the  environ-
   mental  conservation law and the general municipal law, in relation to
   adding waste to energy systems to the definition of renewables
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision  1 of section 66-p of the
 public service law, as added by chapter 106 of  the  laws  of  2019,  is
 amended and a new paragraph (c) is added to read as follows:
   (b) "renewable energy systems" means systems that generate electricity
 or thermal energy through use of the following technologies: solar ther-
 mal, photovoltaics, on land and offshore wind, hydroelectric, geothermal
 electric,  geothermal  ground  source  heat,  tidal energy, wave energy,
 ocean thermal, WASTE TO ENERGY, and fuel cells which do  not  utilize  a
 fossil fuel resource in the process of generating electricity[.];
   (C)  "WASTE TO ENERGY" MEANS THERMAL AND NON-THERMAL TECHNOLOGIES THAT
 ARE ABLE TO PRODUCE ENERGY FROM WASTE WITHOUT DIRECT COMBUSTION.
   § 2. Subdivision 7 of section 1-103 of the energy law,  as  renumbered
 by  chapter 820 of the laws of 1976, is amended and a new subdivision 14
 is added to read as follows:
   7. "Fossil fuel" shall mean coal, petroleum products and  fuel  gases,
 EXCEPT BIOGAS.
   14.  "BIOGAS" SHALL INCLUDE A MIXTURE OF GASES PRODUCED FROM RAW MATE-
 RIALS SUCH AS AGRICULTURAL WASTE, MANURE, PLANT  MATERIAL,  GREEN  WASTE
 AND FOOD WASTE.
   §  3.  Subdivision 4 of section 72-0301 of the environmental conserva-
 tion law, as amended by chapter 608 of the laws of 1993, is amended  and
 a new subdivision 17 is added to read as follows:
   4. "Combustion installation" means one or more furnace, device, engine
 or  turbine  in  which fossil fuel, BIOGAS or wood is burned with air or
 oxygen and the air contaminant emissions  include  only  those  products
 resulting from:
   a. combustion of the fuel;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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