Directs the New York state energy and research development authority to establish a pilot program to install a microgrid in Glenwood Houses; requires the authority to annually report on the results of such program and any recommendations for expansion.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2480
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 21, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
cations
AN ACT in relation to directing the New York state energy research and
development authority to establish a pilot program to install a micro-
grid in Glenwood Houses
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. 1. No later than one hundred eighty days after the effec-
2 tive date of this act, the New York state energy research and develop-
3 ment authority shall establish, within amounts appropriated therefor, a
4 pilot program to install a microgrid in Glenwood Houses in Kings county.
5 Such microgrid shall be used for local energy production and distrib-
6 ution which can function independently if disconnected from the main
7 electricity grid or a supplement for peaks in demand. The microgrid
8 shall be powered by renewable energy sources including but not limited
9 to solar panels, hydrogen or wind, and energy efficient generators which
10 shall be combined with energy storage units such as batteries with low
11 environmental impacts.
12 2. The authority shall provide an annual report on or before the first
13 day of January to the governor, the temporary president of the senate
14 and the speaker of the assembly, on the pilot program and any recommen-
15 dations for expansion of such pilot program.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
17 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06636-01-5
