Directs the wireless service industry to report on current and future plans to pursue renewable energy technology to power macrocells; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4098--B
Cal. No. 445
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 9, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. CUNNINGHAM, SHIMSKY, OTIS, JACOBSON -- read once
and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commis-
sions -- recommitted to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and
Commissions in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee -- reported from committee, advanced to a third
reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the
order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to directing the
wireless service industry to report on current and future plans to
pursue renewable energy technology to power macrocells; and providing
for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
2 399-yyyy to read as follows:
3 § 399-yyyy. Macrocell renewable energy reporting. 1. Upon the twelfth
4 month after the effective date of this section, the wireless service
5 industry shall collaborate on and issue a white paper reporting on
6 current and future efforts to pursue renewable energy at macrocell sites
7 with the report delivered to the governor, the speaker of the assembly,
8 the temporary president of the senate, and the chair of the senate ener-
9 gy and telecommunications committee and the assembly corporations,
10 authorities and commissions committee. The report shall include, but
11 need not be limited to, consideration of the following issues:
12 (a) the company's existing and future investments in renewable energy
13 sources, as corporations generally and at macrocell sites specifically;
14 (b) the energy demands of existing macrocell sites including any
15 anticipated increases to demand at such sites;
16 (c) the benefits and challenges of relying on renewable energy to
17 provision wireless service;
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (d) potential impacts to existing backup power sources; and
2 (e) estimated costs relating to using renewable energy to power macro-
3 cell sites.
4 2. For purposes of this section, a "macrocell" is a cell in a mobile
5 phone network that provides radio coverage served by a high-power cell
6 site (tower, antenna or mast). The "wireless service industry" shall
7 include wireless carriers, tower companies, and their trade associations
8 that offer service to New York state customers.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
10 have become a law and shall expire and be deemed repealed two years
11 after it shall have become a law.
