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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5680
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 20, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. BARRETT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Energy
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 added by chapter 106 of the laws of 2019, is
3 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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