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                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BARRETT,  ROSENTHAL,  SIMON, COLTON, PAULIN,
   SIMONE, STECK, STERN, FORREST, LUNSFORD -- read once and  referred  to
   the Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the public service law and the environmental conserva-
   tion law, in relation  to  increasing  the  statewide  energy  storage
   capacity
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 137 of the public service law,  as
 added  by  section  11  of  part O of chapter 58 of the laws of 2024, is
 amended to read as follows:
   1. "CLCPA targets" shall mean the public policies established  in  the
 climate  leadership  and community protection act enacted in chapter one
 hundred six of the laws of two  thousand  nineteen,  including  but  not
 limited  to  the  requirement  that  a minimum of seventy percent of the
 statewide electric generation be produced by renewable energy systems by
 two thousand thirty, that by the year two thousand forty  the  statewide
 electrical  demand system will generate zero emissions, and the procure-
 ment of at least nine gigawatts of offshore wind electricity  generation
 by  two thousand thirty-five, six gigawatts of photovoltaic solar gener-
 ation by two thousand twenty-five and to support [three]  SIX  gigawatts
 of statewide energy storage capacity by two thousand thirty.
   §  2. Paragraph e of subdivision 13 of section 75-0103 of the environ-
 mental conservation law, as added by chapter 106 of the laws of 2019, is
 amended to read as follows:
   e. Measures to achieve  six  gigawatts  of  distributed  solar  energy
 capacity  installed in the state by two thousand twenty-five, nine giga-
 watts of offshore wind capacity installed by two thousand thirty-five, a
 statewide energy efficiency goal of  one  hundred  eighty-five  trillion
 British thermal units energy reduction from the two thousand twenty-five
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 forecast; and [three] SIX gigawatts of statewide energy storage capacity
 by two thousand thirty.
   § 3. Subdivision 5 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:
   5.  No later than July first, two thousand twenty-four, the commission
 shall establish programs to require the procurement by the state's  load
 serving entities of at least nine gigawatts of offshore wind electricity
 generation by two thousand thirty-five and six gigawatts of photovoltaic
 solar generation by two thousand twenty-five, and to support [three] SIX
 gigawatts of statewide energy storage capacity by two thousand thirty.
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, that the amend-
 ments  to  section  137 of the public service law made by section one of
 this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be deemed
 repealed therewith.