New York S 97: Enacts the "build to need act"

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S00097 Summary:

BILL NOS00097 

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SAME ASSAME AS A04559

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SPONSORCOMRIE

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COSPNSRJACKSON

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §77-a, Pub Serv L

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Enacts the "build to need act" to meet the state's electrification and climate related policy mandates; directs the public service commission to implement a grid planning process; makes related provisions.

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BILL NOS00097 

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

01/07/2026REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 97

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed,
 and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Tele-
 communications

 AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to enacting the
 "build to need act"

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known as and may be cited as
 2 the "build to need act".
 3 § 2. Legislative findings and intent. The legislature hereby finds
 4 that in order to achieve the targets set forth in the climate leadership
 5 and community protection act, zero-emissions vehicle sales targets, and
 6 regulations, including the advanced clean truck and advanced clean cars
 7 II rules, zero-emissions school bus mandate, and other relevant goals,
 8 the interests of the people of the state would be served by:
 9 (a) expediting electric grid infrastructure upgrades to facilitate the
 10 charging of light-duty, medium-duty, and heavy-duty electric vehicles;
 11 (b) aligning a proactive planning process for beneficial electrifica-
 12 tion with the current coordinated grid planning process for electric
 13 corporations;
 14 (c) ensuring the full range of feasible distributed energy resource
 15 technologies, load management opportunities, and expected electrified
 16 end uses are incorporated into electric utility investment plans;
 17 (d) lowering costs to customers through efficient planning, including
 18 consideration and deployment of non-wires solutions that reduce or elim-
 19 inate the need for distribution system upgrades;
 20 (e) ensuring meaningful benefits to communities most affected by
 21 large-scale proactive utility projects developed under this framework;
 22 and

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00233-01-5

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 1 (f) enhancing speed, flexibility, and ease of customer intercon-
 2 nections (including both loads and distributed generation).
 3 § 3. The public service law is amended by adding a new section 77-a to
 4 read as follows:
 5 § 77-a. Build to need act. 1. Within sixty days of the effective date
 6 of this section, the commission shall commence a proceeding to implement
 7 a grid planning process that shall direct electric corporations to:
 8 (a) align planning under this section with existing planning proc-
 9 esses, including the coordinated grid planning process implemented
 10 pursuant to the climate leadership and community protection act, to the
 11 extent feasible;
 12 (b) provide annually to the New York independent system operator
 13 updated load projections consistent with the state's electrification and
 14 climate related policy mandates;
 15 (c) use a planning horizon of at least ten years for transmission
 16 through substation-level investments and a planning horizon of at least
 17 five years for other distribution investments;
 18 (d) proactively gather and incorporate data relevant to future elec-
 19 tric loads from sources including but not limited to customers operating
 20 fleets, state and municipal departments of transportation or their
 21 equivalents, other entities that may reasonably be expected to have
 22 relevant information concerning location, type, magnitude, or timing of
 23 major future loads, available vehicle telematics data, and other sources
 24 of information as directed by the commission;
 25 (e)