Senate Bill S4946

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Establishes a clean and resilient energy program

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Energy And Telecommunications Committee


  • 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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2023-S4946 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3504
Current Committee:
Senate Energy And Telecommunications
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Add §66-u, Pub Serv L; add §1020-nn, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S6587, A8240
2021-2022: S3333, A5255

2023-S4946 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a clean and resilient energy program to encourage the development of clean and resilient behind the meter distributed energy resource projects.

2023-S4946 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S4946 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4946
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 17, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- 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 and the public authorities law,
   in relation to establishing a clean and resilient energy program

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The public service law is amended by adding a new section
 66-u to read as follows:
   § 66-U. CLEAN AND  RESILIENT  ENERGY  PROGRAM.  1.  AS  USED  IN  THIS
 SECTION:
   (A)  "CLEAN AND RESILIENT BEHIND THE METER DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCE
 PROJECT" MEANS AN ELECTRICITY GENERATING SYSTEM LOCATED BEHIND A CUSTOM-
 ER METER IN THE STATE THAT IS CONFIGURED TO PROVIDE UNINTERRUPTED  ELEC-
 TRIC  SERVICE  TO  A CUSTOMER THROUGHOUT AN EXTENDED OUTAGE OF THE ELEC-
 TRICITY DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, AND WHICH:
   (I) (1) GENERATES ELECTRICITY WITHOUT PRODUCING  GREENHOUSE  GASES  OR
 LOCAL COMBUSTION RELATED POLLUTANTS; OR
   (2)  GENERATES  ELECTRICITY  OR  ELECTRICITY  AND THERMAL ENERGY VIA A
 NON-COMBUSTION PROCESS AT AN ANNUAL AVERAGE EFFICIENCY OF NO  LESS  THAN
 FIFTY-FIVE PERCENT MEASURED ON A LOWER HEATING VALUE BASIS; OR
   (3)  GENERATES  ELECTRICITY  AND  THERMAL  ENERGY AT AN ANNUAL AVERAGE
 EFFICIENCY OF NO LESS THAN SEVENTY PERCENT MEASURED ON A  LOWER  HEATING
 VALUE  BASIS  AND  REDUCES  THE  LOCAL  COMBUSTION RELATED AIR POLLUTANT
 OXIDES OF NITROGEN BY AT LEAST FIFTY PERCENT IN COMPARISON TO  THE  MOST
 RECENT  ANNUAL  AVERAGE  MARGINAL  EMISSION FACTORS, ACCOUNTING FOR LINE
 LOSSES, FOR THE NEW YORK INDEPENDENT SYSTEM OPERATOR ZONE IN  WHICH  THE
 PROJECT IS LOCATED AT THE TIME OF INTERCONNECTION; AND
   (II)  IS LOCATED AT A COMMUNITY CONTINUITY ASSET OR WITHIN THE BOUNDA-
 RIES OF AN EXISTING OR PLANNED MICROGRID.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06374-01-3
 S. 4946                             2
              

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