Requires developers of offshore wind renewable energy projects receiving state financial support for such projects to use New York-based manufacturers that have labor peace agreements with employees, ensuring uninterrupted supply of equipment for such projects.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3788
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 8, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. FAHY, STECK, SIMON, THIELE, STERN, JACKSON,
GONZALEZ-ROJAS, LUNSFORD, SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Energy
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to requirements of
developers of offshore wind renewable energy projects receiving state
financial support for such projects
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 66-p of the public service law,
2 as added by chapter 106 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 5. (a) No later than July first, two thousand twenty-four, the commis-
5 sion shall establish programs to require the procurement by the state's
6 load serving entities of at least nine gigawatts of offshore wind elec-
7 tricity generation by two thousand thirty-five and six gigawatts of
8 photovoltaic solar generation by two thousand twenty-five, and to
9 support three gigawatts of statewide energy storage capacity by two
10 thousand thirty.
11 (b) The commission and the New York state energy research and develop-
12 ment authority shall not enter into any contract or other agreement with
13 a developer of an offshore wind electricity generation project under
14 which the commission and/or the New York state energy research and
15 development authority provide support for such project through the
16 purchase of renewable energy credits or through any other form of finan-
17 cial support, unless such developer shall agree: (i) that the wind
18 turbines and equipment used in such project shall be manufactured and
19 produced in New York state, to the maximum extent feasible; and (ii) to
20 procure the wind turbines and equipment used in such project from a
21 manufacturer or manufacturers that shall have a labor peace agreement,
22 with a union representing the employees engaged in such manufacture,
23 ensuring the uninterrupted supply of such wind turbines and equipment.
24 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04082-01-3
