Includes fuel-flexible linear generators which do not utilize a fossil fuel resource in the process of generating electricity as qualifying as renewable energy systems.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5055
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 18, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
cations
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to the definition of
renewable energy systems
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 1 of section 66-p of the
2 public service law, as amended by section 3 of part QQ of chapter 56 of
3 the laws of 2023, is amended to read as follows:
4 (b) "renewable energy systems" means systems that generate electricity
5 or thermal energy through use of the following technologies: solar ther-
6 mal, photovoltaics, on land and offshore wind, hydroelectric, geothermal
7 electric, geothermal ground source heat, tidal energy, wave energy,
8 ocean thermal, [and] fuel cells which do not utilize a fossil fuel
9 resource in the process of generating electricity, and fuel-flexible
10 linear generators which do not utilize a fossil fuel resource in the
11 process of generating electricity.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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