Directs the public service commission to develop and implement a plan making the sources of all energy generation in the state renewable sources by 2050.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8160
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 10, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, GOTTFRIED, GUNTHER, LAWRENCE, FAHY,
SIMON, ROSENTHAL, SKARTADOS, ARROYO, CERETTO, JAFFEE, MARKEY, McDO-
NOUGH, HOOPER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BLAKE, CAHILL, RIVERA
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Energy
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to directing the
public service commission to establish and implement a plan to make
the state solely reliant on renewable sources of energy by January 1,
2050
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 5 of the public service law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
3 7. The commission shall develop and implement a plan whereby all
4 sources of energy generation in this state shall be renewable sources on
5 or before January first, two thousand fifty.
6 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11097-02-5
