Bill Text: NY A00340 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Directs the New York state energy research and development authority to prepare a report regarding the replacement of decommissioned or dormant electric generating sites with renewable energy development and energy storage opportunities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2022-11-23 - tabled [A00340 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00340-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         340--B

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, SIMON -- read once and referred to the
          Committee  on  Energy  --  recommitted  to  the Committee on Energy in
          accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee -- again reported from said  committee  with  amendments,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to directing the
          New  York state energy research and development authority to prepare a
          report regarding the replacement of decommissioned or dormant electric
          generating sites with renewable energy development and energy  storage
          opportunities

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1902 of the public authorities law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
     3    (c) Within eighteen months of the effective date  of  this  paragraph,
     4  the  authority  shall  prepare a report to be submitted to the governor,
     5  the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of  the  assembly,
     6  that at a minimum contains:
     7    (i) a survey of decommissioned or dormant electric generating sites in
     8  the  state,  and  plants expected to be decommissioned or dormant in the
     9  next eighteen months;
    10    (ii) an identification of  renewable  energy  development  and  energy
    11  storage  opportunities  at  each such decommissioned or dormant electric
    12  generating sites, and whether such site should be a  build  ready  site,
    13  and if not, why not;
    14    (iii) an assessment of the economic impacts on affected communities of
    15  repowering  dormant electric generating sites with renewable energy, and
    16  energy storage projects, including impacts to the  local  tax  base  and
    17  local employment; and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (iv) an assessment of the impacts on electric system reliability.
     2    §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately, provided, however that
     3  the amendments to section 1902 of the public  authorities  law  made  by
     4  section  one  of  this act shall not affect the expiration and repeal of
     5  such section and shall expire and be deemed repealed therewith.