Bill Text: NY S07834 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes qualified energy storage systems in the major renewable energy development program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S07834 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07834-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7834

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    December 22, 2023
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        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to qualified energy stor-
          age systems

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

     1    Section  1. Paragraph (g) of subdivision 4 and paragraph (d) of subdi-
     2  vision 7 of section 94-c of the executive law, paragraph (g) of subdivi-
     3  sion 4 as added by section 4 of part JJJ of chapter 58 of  the  laws  of
     4  2020, and paragraph (d) of subdivision 7 as amended by section 2 of part
     5  BBB of chapter 55 of the laws of 2021, are amended to read as follows:
     6    (g) Any person intending to construct (i) a facility that is a renewa-
     7  ble energy system, as such term is defined in section sixty-six-p of the
     8  public  service  law  as added by chapter one hundred six of the laws of
     9  two thousand nineteen, with a nameplate  capacity  of  at  least  twenty
    10  thousand  but less than twenty-five thousand kilowatts, or (ii) a quali-
    11  fied energy storage system, as such term is defined in  subdivision  one
    12  of  section  seventy-four  of  the  public service law, with a nameplate
    13  capacity of more than five thousand kilowatts and not co-located with  a
    14  major  renewable  energy  facility,  may  apply to become subject to the
    15  provisions of this section by filing an application for a siting permit.
    16  Upon submission of such application, the subject renewable energy facil-
    17  ity or qualified energy storage system  inclusive  of  related  electric
    18  transmission  facilities  less  than  ten  miles  in length that provide
    19  access to load or integrate such systems into the state's bulk  electric
    20  transmission  system,  shall  be  treated  as  a "major renewable energy
    21  facility" exclusively for purposes of permitting under this section.
    22    (d) In addition to the fees established pursuant to paragraph  (a)  of
    23  this  subdivision,  the office, pursuant to regulations adopted pursuant
    24  to this section, may assess a fee for the purpose  of  recovering  costs
    25  the  office  incurs  and may require applications for a qualified energy

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 7834                             2

     1  storage system submitted pursuant to clause (ii)  of  paragraph  (g)  of
     2  subdivision  four  of  this  section to be accompanied by a fee of fifty
     3  thousand dollar.
     4    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     5  have become a law.