| Date of Action |
Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
|---|---|
| Feb 18, 2025 |
referred to energy and telecommunications |
Senate Bill S5055
2025-2026 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, WF) 56th Senate District
Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Energy And Telecommunications Committee
Actions
2025-S5055 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A289
- Current Committee:
- Senate Energy And Telecommunications
- Law Section:
- Public Service Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §66-p, Pub Serv L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
-
2021-2022:
A10584
2023-2024: S7109, A5680
2025-S5055 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S5055
SPONSOR: COONEY
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the public service law, in relation to the definition of
renewable energy systems
PURPOSE OF THE BILL:
Adds fuel-flexible linear generators which do not utilize a fossil fuel
resource to the definition of renewable energy systems.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1: Amends subdivision 1 of Section 66-p of the Public Service
Law to fuel-flexible linear generators ("linear generators") which do
not use a fossil fuel resource to the technologies that constitute
"renewable energy systems" under the Climate Leadership and Community
Protection Act.
Section 2: Effective Date
2025-S5055 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________
5055
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
February 18, 2025
___________
Introduced by Sen. COONEY -- 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 the definition of
renewable energy systems
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 amended by section 3 of part QQ of chapter 56 of
the laws of 2023, is amended 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, [and] fuel cells which do not utilize a fossil fuel
resource in the process of generating electricity, AND FUEL-FLEXIBLE
LINEAR GENERATORS WHICH DO NOT UTILIZE A FOSSIL FUEL RESOURCE IN THE
PROCESS OF GENERATING ELECTRICITY.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00260-01-5
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