Bill Text: NY S08628 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes and directs the public service commission to conduct a study on the deployment of energy interconnection processes into the electrical grid to meet the state's renewable energy goals set out under the climate leadership and community protection act, as amended; directs the public service commission to submit a report on its findings one year after the effective date.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-22 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S08628 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08628-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8628

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 22, 2024
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
          cations

        AN  ACT to authorize and direct the public service commission to conduct
          a study on the deployment of energy interconnection processes into the
          electrical grid

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

     1    Section  1.  Study.  The  public  service commission is authorized and
     2  directed to conduct a study on the regulatory barriers, if any,  to  the
     3  rapid  deployment  of energy interconnection processes in the state that
     4  shall include, but not be limited to, potential  changes  to  the  elec-
     5  trical  grid  to  rapidly  bring new renewable energy resources onto the
     6  electrical grid to meet the state's renewable energy goals set out under
     7  the climate leadership and community protection act, as amended.
     8    § 2. Report. No later than one year after the effective date  of  this
     9  act,  the  public  service  commission shall submit to the governor, the
    10  speaker of the assembly and the temporary president  of  the  senate,  a
    11  report  assessing  its  findings  under  the study conducted pursuant to
    12  section one of this act, and any recommendations to  rapidly  bring  new
    13  renewable  energy resources onto the electrical grid to meet the state's
    14  renewable energy goals set out under the climate leadership and communi-
    15  ty protection act, as amended.
    16    § 3. Definitions. For the purposes of this act,  the  following  terms
    17  shall have the following meanings:
    18    1.  "Energy  interconnection process" means the process of integrating
    19  new sources of renewable energy resources, as defined by  section  1-103
    20  of the energy law, into the electrical grid.
    21    2.  "Electrical  grid"  means the network of electric plants and other
    22  electric generating facilities and  equipment,  and  electricity  trans-
    23  mission and distribution systems in the state.
    24    3. "Renewable energy resources" shall have the same meaning as defined
    25  by section 1-103 of the energy law.
    26    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

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