STATE OF NEW YORK
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8229
IN SENATE
January 16, 2024
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Introduced by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
cations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, the environmental conservation law,
and the public service 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:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 94-c of the exec-
2 utive law, as added by section 4 of part JJJ of chapter 58 of the laws
3 of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
4 (b) "CLCPA targets" shall mean the public policies established in the
5 climate leadership and community protection act enacted in chapter one
6 hundred six of the laws of two thousand nineteen, including the require-
7 ment that a minimum of seventy percent of the statewide electric gener-
8 ation be produced by renewable energy systems by two thousand thirty,
9 that by the year two thousand forty the statewide electrical demand
10 system will generate zero emissions and the procurement of at least nine
11 gigawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by two thousand thir-
12 ty-five, six gigawatts of photovoltaic solar generation by two thousand
13 twenty-five and to support [three] six gigawatts of statewide energy
14 storage capacity by two thousand thirty.
15 § 2. Paragraph e of subdivision 13 of section 75-0103 of the environ-
16 mental conservation law, as added by chapter 106 of the laws of 2019, is
17 amended to read as follows:
18 e. Measures to achieve six gigawatts of distributed solar energy
19 capacity installed in the state by two thousand twenty-five, nine giga-
20 watts of offshore wind capacity installed by two thousand thirty-five, a
21 statewide energy efficiency goal of one hundred eighty-five trillion
22 British thermal units energy reduction from the two thousand twenty-five
23 forecast; and [three] six gigawatts of statewide energy storage capacity
24 by two thousand thirty.
25 § 3. Subdivision 5 of section 66-p of the public service law, as added
26 by chapter 106 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 5. No later than July first, two thousand twenty-four, the commission
2 shall establish programs to require the procurement by the state's load
3 serving entities of at least nine gigawatts of offshore wind electricity
4 generation by two thousand thirty-five and six gigawatts of photovoltaic
5 solar generation by two thousand twenty-five, and to support [three] six
6 gigawatts of statewide energy storage capacity by two thousand thirty.
7 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, that the amend-
8 ments to section 94-c of the executive law made by section one of this
9 act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be deemed
10 repealed therewith.
