Prohibits the construction or maintenance of energy storage systems capable of storing more than twenty kilowatt hours within five hundred feet of a school or dwelling in a city with a population of one million or more.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7710
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 1, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. CHAN -- 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 prohibiting the
construction and maintenance of certain energy storage systems within
five hundred feet of a school or dwelling in a city with a population
of one million or more
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 8 of section 11-104 of the energy law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
3 (c) "School property" shall mean in or within any building, structure,
4 athletic playing field, playground, parking lot, or land contained with-
5 in the real property boundary line of any daycare, preschool, public or
6 private elementary school, public or private secondary school or any
7 college or university.
8 § 2. Section 11-104 of the energy law is amended by adding a new
9 subdivision 10 to read as follows:
10 10. Notwithstanding any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, in a
11 city with a population of one million or more, no energy storage system
12 capable of storing more than twenty kilowatt hours shall be constructed
13 or maintained within five hundred feet of any school property or within
14 five hundred feet of any dwelling.
15 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
16 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11740-02-5
