Bill Text: NY S08415 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires all municipalities with a population of five thousand or more to implement SolarAPP plus by January first, two thousand twenty-six, for features supporting residential building permits for solar photovoltaic systems, energy storage systems paired with a residential solar energy system, main electric panel upgrades, and main electric panel derates.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-07 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S08415 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08415-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8415

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 29, 2024
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        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction  and
          Community Development

        AN  ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to residential solar and
          energy storage permitting

          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  381  of the executive law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph k to read as follows:
     3    k. (i) standards and procedures requiring:
     4    (A) all municipalities with a population of five thousand or  more  to
     5  implement  SolarAPP  plus by January first, two thousand twenty-six, for
     6  features supporting residential building permits for solar  photovoltaic
     7  systems,  energy  storage systems paired with a residential solar energy
     8  system, main electric panel upgrades, and main electric  panel  derates.
     9  The  authority  may  make  available  state  or federal funds to provide
    10  financial or technical support to municipalities  implementing  SolarAPP
    11  plus.
    12    (B)  a  municipality  to  report to the authority on or before January
    13  first, two thousand twenty-six certifying its compliance with clause (A)
    14  of this subparagraph. Municipalities that fail to comply with the  time-
    15  frames  in clause (A) of this subparagraph may be ineligible for funding
    16  opportunities offered by the authority. The authority may, in  its  sole
    17  discretion,  condition or deny a municipality direct funding from any of
    18  its programs if it is not in compliance with this paragraph. The author-
    19  ity shall make the  status  of  a  municipality's  compliance  with  the
    20  provisions of this paragraph publicly available on its website.
    21    (ii)  As  used  in  this paragraph, the following terms shall have the
    22  following meanings:
    23    (A) "Authority" means the New York state energy research and  develop-
    24  ment authority.
    25    (B)  "Residential  energy storage system" means commercially available
    26  technology, located behind a customer's residential utility meter,  that
    27  is  capable  of  absorbing electricity generated from a co-located elec-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  tricity generator or from the electrical grid, storing it for  a  period
     2  of time, and thereafter discharging it to meet the energy or power needs
     3  of the host customer or for export.
     4    (C) "Residential solar energy system" means any configuration of solar
     5  energy  devices  that  collects  and  distributes  solar  energy for the
     6  purpose of generating electricity and  that  has  a  single  residential
     7  interconnection with the electrical grid.
     8    (D)  "SolarAPP  plus"  means  the  most  recent version of a web-based
     9  portal, developed by the  national  renewable  energy  laboratory,  that
    10  automates  plan  review,  produces  code-compliant approvals, and issues
    11  permits for solar energy systems and energy storage systems.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.