Establishes new targets for offshore wind electricity generation; includes the requirements that there is at least 9,900 megawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by 2035, 15,800 megawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by 2040, at least 18,000 megawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by 2045 and at least 20,000 megawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by 2050.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7407
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 19, 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 executive law and the environmental conservation
law, in relation to establishing new targets for offshore wind elec-
tricity generation
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 2 of section 94-c of the exec-
2 utive law, as added by section 4 of part JJJ of chapter 58 of the laws
3 of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
4 (b) "CLCPA targets" shall mean the public policies established in the
5 climate leadership and community protection act enacted in chapter one
6 hundred six of the laws of two thousand nineteen, including the require-
7 ment that a minimum of seventy percent of the statewide electric gener-
8 ation be produced by renewable energy systems by two thousand thirty,
9 that by the year two thousand forty the statewide electrical demand
10 system will generate zero emissions and the procurement of at least
11 [nine gigawatts] nine thousand nine hundred megawatts of offshore wind
12 electricity generation by two thousand thirty-five, at least fifteen
13 thousand eight hundred megawatts of offshore wind electricity generation
14 by two thousand forty, at least eighteen thousand megawatts of offshore
15 wind electricity generation by two thousand forty-five and at least
16 twenty thousand megawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by two
17 thousand fifty, six gigawatts of photovoltaic solar generation by two
18 thousand twenty-five and to support three gigawatts of statewide energy
19 storage capacity by two thousand thirty.
20 § 2. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 13 of section 75-0103 of the envi-
21 ronmental conservation law, as added by chapter 106 of the laws of 2019,
22 is amended to read as follows:
23 e. Measures to achieve six gigawatts of distributed solar energy
24 capacity installed in the state by two thousand twenty-five, nine [giga-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 watts] thousand nine hundred megawatts of offshore wind capacity
2 installed by two thousand thirty-five, at least fifteen thousand eight
3 hundred megawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by two thou-
4 sand forty, at least eighteen thousand megawatts of offshore wind
5 electricity generation by two thousand forty-five and at least twen-
6 ty thousand megawatts of offshore wind electricity generation by two
7 thousand fifty, a statewide energy efficiency goal of one hundred eight-
8 y-five trillion British thermal units energy reduction from the two
9 thousand twenty-five forecast; and three gigawatts of statewide energy
10 storage capacity by two thousand thirty.
11 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
12 the amendments to section 94-c of the executive law, made by section one
13 of this act, shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be
14 deemed repealed therewith.
