STATE OF NEW YORK
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8602--A
IN SENATE
May 10, 2018
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Introduced by Sen. GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
cations -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to establishing the
energy storage deployment policy
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 74 of the public service law, as amended by a chap-
2 ter of the laws of 2018 amending the public service law and the public
3 authorities law relating to establishing the energy storage deployment
4 policy, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 7318-A and A.
5 8921-A, is amended to read as follows:
6 § 74. Energy storage deployment policy. 1. As used in this section
7 "qualified energy storage system" shall mean commercially available
8 technology that is capable of absorbing energy, storing it for a period
9 of time, and thereafter dispatching the energy using mechanical, chemi-
10 cal, or thermal processes to store energy that was generated at one time
11 for use at a later time.
12 2. By December thirty-first, two thousand eighteen, the commission
13 shall, in consultation with the New York state energy research and
14 development authority [and], the Long Island power authority, and the
15 federally designated electric bulk system operator for New York state,
16 after a hearing held on notice, establish by order, rules and regu-
17 lations, both a two thousand thirty energy storage goal for the state
18 and a deployment policy to support that goal. The energy storage deploy-
19 ment policy shall [include the following] assist with and take the
20 following into consideration:
21 (a) avoided or deferred costs associated with transmission, distrib-
22 ution, [or] and/or generation capacity;
23 (b) minimization of peak load in constrained areas;
24 (c) systems that are connected to customer facilities and systems that
25 are directly connected to transmission and distribution facilities;
26 (d) cost-effectiveness;
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (e) [assisting] the integration of variable-output energy resources;
2 (f) reducing emissions of greenhouse gases;
3 (g) reducing demand for peak electrical generation; [and]
4 (h) improving the reliable operation of the electrical transmission or
5 distribution systems; and
6 (i) such other issues deemed appropriate by the commission.
7 3. To the extent that the energy storage deployment policy directs the
8 procurement of qualified energy storage systems to encourage their
9 deployment, such procurements shall be awarded through a competitive
10 process.
11 4. Annual reports on the achievements and effectiveness of the policy
12 [to] shall be submitted to the governor, the temporary president of the
13 senate, and the speaker of the assembly[; and
14 (j) Such other issues deemed appropriate by the commission].
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
16 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2018 amending the public service law
17 and the public authorities law relating to establishing the energy stor-
18 age deployment policy, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.
19 7318-A and A. 8921-A, takes effect.
