Bill Text: NY S01767 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Adds public and nonpublic elementary and secondary schools to the New York power authority's list of mandated customers.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S01767 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S01767-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1767 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 10, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GOLDEN -- 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 authorities law, in relation to adding public and nonpublic elementary and secondary schools to the list of the New York power authority's mandated customers The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The third undesignated paragraph of section 1005 of the 2 public authorities law, as amended by chapter 287 of the laws of 2004, 3 is amended to read as follows: 4 The authority is further authorized to construct and/or acquire and 5 complete such base load generating, transmission and related facilities 6 as it deems necessary or desirable to assist in maintaining an adequate 7 and dependable supply of electricity by supplying power and energy for 8 the metropolitan transportation authority, its subsidiary corporations, 9 the New York city transit authority, the port authority of New York and 10 New Jersey, the city of New York, the state of New York, the United 11 States, other public corporations and electric corporations within the 12 metropolitan area of the city of New York within the state of New York; 13 provided, however, that (i) the acquisition of completed or partially 14 completed facilities shall be after public hearing and shall be limited 15 to facilities located in New York city or Westchester county and the 16 energy and power generated by such facilities shall be used, to the 17 extent feasible, for the benefit of electric consumers in that area, 18 (ii) not more than one such generating facility shall be acquired in 19 each of New York city and Westchester county, (iii) the price to be paid 20 pursuant to any agreement entered into with respect to the purchase, 21 appropriation or condemnation of any such completed or partially 22 completed facility, as the case may be, shall be subject to the approval 23 of the state comptroller and (iv) transmission facilities shall not be EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06048-01-7S. 1767 2 1 so acquired pursuant to this paragraph unless such acquisition is neces- 2 sary to assure delivery of power and energy produced by any acquired 3 generating facility. The authority is further authorized, to the extent 4 it deems it necessary or desirable, to provide power and energy, as it 5 may determine it to be available, for the use by the Niagara frontier 6 transportation authority or its subsidiary corporation. The authority 7 is [authorized] directed to make energy efficiency services, clean ener- 8 gy technologies and, in the event that supplies of power and energy are 9 determined to be available from the competitive market for this purpose, 10 power and energy, available to public and nonpublic elementary and 11 secondary schools throughout the state. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
