STATE OF NEW YORK
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5834
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 3, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
cations
AN ACT to amend the energy law, in relation to explicitly permitting the
standard utility interconnection of sub-transmission lines for partic-
ular projects
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The energy law is amended by adding a new section 21-107 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 21-107. Interconnection at sub-transmission lines. Notwithstanding
4 any law, rule, regulation, policy or guideline to the contrary, all
5 forms of energy considered distributed generation under the state's
6 Standardized Interconnection Requirements (SIR) shall be allowed to
7 connect to the utilities distribution system at the sub-transmission
8 level provided that the generator has met all other state and federal
9 requirements. The process for such interconnection shall proceed in the
10 same method and fashion as interconnections at the transmission level.
11 § 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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