Assembly Bill A5680

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Includes fuel-flexible linear generators which do not utilize a fossil fuel resource in the process of generating electricity as qualifying as renewable energy systems

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  • Delivered to Governor
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2023-A5680 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Energy
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §66-p, Pub Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A10584

2023-A5680 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes fuel-flexible linear generators which do not utilize a fossil fuel resource in the process of generating electricity as qualifying as renewable energy systems.

2023-A5680 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5680
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 20, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BARRETT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Energy
 
 AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to the definition of
   renewable energy systems
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision  1 of section 66-p of the
 public service law, as added by chapter 106 of  the  laws  of  2019,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   (b) "renewable energy systems" means systems that generate electricity
 or thermal energy through use of the following technologies: solar ther-
 mal, photovoltaics, on land and offshore wind, hydroelectric, geothermal
 electric,  geothermal  ground  source  heat,  tidal energy, wave energy,
 ocean thermal, [and] fuel cells which  do  not  utilize  a  fossil  fuel
 resource  in  the  process  of generating electricity, AND FUEL-FLEXIBLE
 LINEAR GENERATORS WHICH DO NOT UTILIZE A FOSSIL  FUEL  RESOURCE  IN  THE
 PROCESS OF GENERATING ELECTRICITY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07858-01-3

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