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.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N A S S E M B L Y
February 23, 2022
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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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