Bill Text: NY A10008 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to establishing a renewable hydrogen incentive and financing program to engage stakeholders to design and implement a competitive program for renewable hydrogen production for the purpose of meeting the state's clean energy and greenhouse emissions reductions targets.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-04 - referred to energy [A10008 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10008-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10008

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 4, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Energy

        AN  ACT  to  amend the energy law, in relation to establishing a program
          for eligible renewable hydrogen

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The  energy  law is amended by adding a new article 13 to
     2  read as follows:
     3                                 ARTICLE 13
     4             RENEWABLE HYDROGEN INCENTIVE AND FINANCING PROGRAM
     5  Section 13-101. Definitions.
     6          13-102. Renewable hydrogen incentive and financing program.
     7    §  13-101. Definitions. As used in this article:
     8    1. "Eligible renewable hydrogen" shall mean hydrogen (a) produced with
     9  electricity generated  from  renewable  energy  systems  as  defined  by
    10  section  sixty-six-p  of the public service law, as added by chapter one
    11  hundred six of the laws of two thousand nineteen;  (b)  which  is  phys-
    12  ically  located  within  the  jurisdiction  of  the New York independent
    13  system operator; and (c) delivered to a  customer  in  New  York  state,
    14  where  such delivery shall be subject to independent verification by the
    15  New York state energy research and development authority or a  qualified
    16  independent party.
    17    2. "Eligible curtailed renewable hydrogen" means hydrogen (a) produced
    18  with  electricity generated from a renewable energy system as defined by
    19  section sixty-six-p of the public service law, as added by  chapter  one
    20  hundred  six  of  the  laws of two thousand nineteen, which has seen its
    21  electricity output curtailed; (b) which is physically located within the
    22  jurisdiction of the New York independent system operator; and (c) deliv-
    23  ered to a customer in New York  state,  where  such  delivery  shall  be
    24  subject  to  independent  verification  by  the  New  York  state energy
    25  research and development authority or a qualified independent party.
    26    §  13-102.  Renewable  hydrogen  incentive  and   financing   program.
    27  Notwithstanding  any  other provision of law to the contrary, including,
    28  but not limited to, any order, rule or regulation  promulgated  pursuant

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15048-02-0

        A. 10008                            2

     1  to  the public service law, the public authorities law, and/or the state
     2  administrative procedure act, the public service commission, in  consul-
     3  tation  with the New York state energy research and development authori-
     4  ty,  shall adopt a program within one year of the effective date of this
     5  section to provide support to and for eligible renewable  hydrogen  and,
     6  at  a  greater  rate,  eligible  curtailed renewable hydrogen, through a
     7  proceeding to engage stakeholders in order to  design  and  implement  a
     8  competitive  program  for eligible renewable hydrogen production for the
     9  purpose of meeting the state's clean  energy  and  greenhouse  emissions
    10  reductions targets. The program shall require:
    11    1.  administration  by the New York state energy research and develop-
    12  ment authority;
    13    2. a diversity of project sizes, geographic distribution, and  partic-
    14  ipation  among customer classes, subject to cost-effectiveness consider-
    15  ations;
    16    3. incentive or financing structures that maximize  cost-effectiveness
    17  and  practicality  through  competitive  procurements,  standing-offers,
    18  production incentives or capacity incentives at the wholesale or  retail
    19  level as, in the judgment of the commission, provide for the most effec-
    20  tive program;
    21    4. program designs that take into consideration the avoidance of long-
    22  term  costs to the transmission and distribution system and minimization
    23  of peak load in constrained areas;
    24    5. annual  reports  on  the  achievements  and  effectiveness  of  the
    25  program; and
    26    6. such other issues deemed appropriate by the commission.
    27    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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