Bill Text: NY A08921 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 8921 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Establishes the energy storage deployment policy.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-11-05 - signed chap.324 [A08921 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8921
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     January 8, 2018
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Energy
        AN  ACT  to amend the public service law and the public authorities law,
          in relation to establishing the energy storage deployment policy
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 74 of the public service law, as added by a chapter
     2  of  the  laws  of  2017  amending  the public service law and the public
     3  authorities law relating to establishing the energy  storage  deployment
     4  program,  as  proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 5190 and A. 6571,
     5  is amended to read as follows:
     6    § 74. Energy storage deployment [program] policy. 1. [(a)] As used  in
     7  this  section  "qualified energy storage system" shall mean commercially
     8  available technology that is capable of absorbing energy, storing it for
     9  a period of time, and thereafter dispatching the  energy[.  A  qualified
    10  energy  storage  system  shall  be  cost-effective and either assist the
    11  integration of variable energy resources, reduce emissions of greenhouse
    12  gases, reduce demand for peak electrical generation, defer or substitute
    13  for an investment in generation, transmission, or  distribution  assets,
    14  or  improve  the  reliable  operation  of the electrical transmission or
    15  distribution grid.
    16    (b) A qualified energy storage system shall do  one  or  more  of  the
    17  following:  (i) use] using mechanical, chemical, or thermal processes to
    18  store energy that was generated at one time for use at  a  later  time[;
    19  (ii)  store  thermal  energy  for direct use for heating or cooling at a
    20  later time in a manner that avoids the need to use electricity  at  that
    21  later  time;  (iii)  use  mechanical,  chemical, or thermal processes to
    22  store energy generated from renewable resources for use at a later time;
    23  or (iv) use mechanical, chemical, or thermal processes to  store  energy
    24  generated  from  mechanical processes that would otherwise be wasted for
    25  delivery at a later time].
    26    2. [Within ninety days of the effective  date  of  this  section,  the
    27  commission  shall  commence a proceeding to establish the energy storage
    28  deployment program to encourage the  installation  of  qualified  energy

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 8921                             2

     1  storage systems. No later than January first, two thousand eighteen, the
     2  commission  shall  make  a  determination  establishing a target for the
     3  installation of qualified energy storage systems to be achieved  through
     4  two thousand thirty and programs that will enable the state to meet such
     5  target.  The  commission  shall  consult  with the New York state energy
     6  research and development authority and the Long Island  power  authority
     7  in the preparation of such determination.] By December thirty-first, two
     8  thousand  eighteen,  the  commission shall, in consultation with the New
     9  York state energy research and development authority and the Long Island
    10  power authority, after a hearing held on  notice,  establish  by  order,
    11  rules  and  regulations,  both a two thousand thirty energy storage goal
    12  for the state and a deployment policy to support that goal. The  [deter-
    13  mination] energy storage deployment policy shall include the following:
    14    (a)  [The  creation  of  the  energy  storage deployment program to be
    15  administered by the New  York  state  energy  research  and  development
    16  authority and the Long Island power authority;
    17    (b) Estimated annual expenditures associated with the program for each
    18  year  commencing with calendar year two thousand eighteen and continuing
    19  through calendar year two thousand thirty;
    20    (c) Program designs that take the following into consideration:
    21    (1)] avoided or deferred costs associated with transmission,  distrib-
    22  ution, [and/or] or generation capacity;
    23    [(2)] (b) minimization of peak load in constrained areas; [and
    24    (3)] (c) systems that are connected to customer facilities and systems
    25  that are directly connected to transmission and distribution facilities;
    26    (d) cost-effectiveness;
    27    (e) assisting the integration of variable-output energy resources;
    28    (f) reducing emissions of greenhouse gases;
    29    (g) reducing demand for peak electrical generation; and
    30    (h) improving the reliable operation of the electrical transmission or
    31  distribution systems;
    32    (i)  Annual  reports  on  the  achievements  and  effectiveness of the
    33  [program] policy to be submitted to the governor, the  temporary  presi-
    34  dent of the senate, and the speaker of the assembly; and
    35    [(e)] (j) Such other issues deemed appropriate by the commission.
    36    §  2.  Section  1020-ii  of  the public authorities law, as added by a
    37  chapter of the laws of 2017 amending the  public  service  law  and  the
    38  public  authorities  law  relating  to  establishing  the energy storage
    39  deployment program, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 5190 and
    40  A. 6571, is amended to read as follows:
    41    § 1020-ii. Energy storage deployment [program] policy.  The  authority
    42  shall  encourage the installation of qualified energy storage systems in
    43  its service territory  through  implementation  of  the  energy  storage
    44  deployment  [program]  policy as set forth and defined in section seven-
    45  ty-four of the public service law.
    46    § 3. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    47  manner  as a chapter of the laws of 2017 amending the public service law
    48  and the public authorities law relating to establishing the energy stor-
    49  age deployment program, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 5190
    50  and A. 6571, takes effect.