Requires the chair of the public service commission create rules, regulations, policies, and procedures for the creation of a resilient electric vehicle charging system pilot program to provide power through an extended outage.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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465
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. MAGNARELLI, EPSTEIN, OTIS -- Multi-Sponsored by
-- M. of A. DAVILA -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Energy
AN ACT to amend the public service law and the public authorities law,
in relation to creating a resilient electric vehicle charging system
pilot program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a new section
2 66-x to read as follows:
3 § 66-x. Resilient electric vehicle charging system pilot program. 1.
4 For the purposes of this section:
5 (a) "Resilient carbon free power generation" shall mean only those
6 generating stations which are:
7 (i) manufactured, installed, and operated in accordance with applica-
8 ble government and industry standards;
9 (ii) connected to the electric system and operated in conjunction with
10 an electric corporation's transmission and distribution system;
11 (iii) operated in compliance with any standards and requirements
12 established under this section;
13 (iv) utilize a synchronous generator with black start capability,
14 frequency control, and disconnect capability; and
15 (v) do not include the active use of fossil fuels and have a name
16 plate capacity of 1.5 megawatts or less.
17 (b) "Resilient electric vehicle charging system" shall mean an elec-
18 tric vehicle (EV) microgrid designed to provide uninterrupted electric
19 service for electric vehicle charging throughout an extended outage.
20 (c) "Extended outage" shall mean an outage of the electric distrib-
21 ution system that continues for a period of twenty-four hours or longer.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (d) "Uninterrupted" shall mean that the resilient electric vehicle
2 charging system generates electricity throughout an extended outage,
3 with the exception of momentary interruptions associated with transi-
4 tions to and from grid parallel and grid-islanded operations.
5 (e) "EV microgrid" is a group of energy generating resources with at
6 least one source of resilient carbon free power generation and energy
7 storage within clearly defined electrical boundaries that acts as a
8 single controllable entity with respect to the grid for the purpose of
9 electric vehicle charging and other emergency response needs during an
10 extended outage. An EV microgrid can connect and disconnect from the
11 grid to enable it to operate in both grid-connected or island-mode.
12 2. The chair shall promulgate such rules, policies, and procedures
13 necessary and appropriate no later than one hundred eighty days follow-
14 ing the effective date of this section for:
15 (a) creating a resilient electric vehicle charging system pilot
16 program at the commercial retail rate with a monthly cash out option
17 program and a total program cap of 50 megawatts;
18 (b) establishing a value stack adder for valuation of uninterrupted
19 resilient carbon free power generation generated within an EV microgrid
20 that is participating in the pilot program that supports a resilient
21 electric vehicle charging system at the commercial retail rate; and
22 (c) creating a timely interconnection process for resilient carbon
23 free power generation comprising an EV microgrid.
24 § 2. Section 1005 of the public authorities law is amended by adding a
25 new subdivision 31 to read as follows:
26 31. The authority in a manner consistent with section sixty-six-x of
27 the public service law, shall promulgate such rules, policies, and
28 procedures necessary and appropriate no later than one hundred eighty
29 days following the effective date of this subdivision for:
30 (a) creating a resilient electric vehicle charging system at the
31 commercial retail rate with a monthly cash out option program and a
32 total program cap of 50 megawatts;
33 (b) establishing a value stack adder for valuation of uninterrupted
34 resilient carbon free power generation generated within an EV microgrid
35 that is also a participant of the pilot program that supports a resil-
36 ient electric vehicle charging system at the commercial retail rate; and
37 (c) creating a timely interconnection process for resilient carbon
38 free power generation comprising an EV microgrid.
39 § 3. Section 1020-f of the public authorities law, as added by chapter
40 517 of the laws of 1986, is amended by adding a new subdivision (ll) to
41 read as follows:
42 (ll) The authority in a manner consistent with section sixty-six-x of
43 the public service law, shall promulgate such rules, policies, and
44 procedures necessary and appropriate no later than one hundred eighty
45 days following the effective date of this section for:
46 1. creating a resilient electric vehicle charging system at the
47 commercial retail rate with a monthly cash out option program and the
48 total program cap of 50 megawatts;
49 2. establishing a value stack adder for valuation of uninterrupted
50 resilient carbon free power generation generated within an EV microgrid
51 that is also a participant of the pilot program that supports a resil-
52 ient electric vehicle charging system at the commercial retail rate; and
53 3. creating a timely interconnection process for resilient carbon free
54 power generation comprising an EV microgrid.
55 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
