New York S 2478: Requires community district education councils to establish safety hazard advisory review committees

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S02478 Summary:

BILL NOS02478 

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SAME ASSAME AS A07806

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SPONSORPARKER

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §66-x, Pub Serv L; add §1020-nn, Pub Auth L

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Establishes a clean and resilient energy program to encourage the development of clean and resilient behind the meter distributed energy resource projects.

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BILL NOS02478 

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01/21/2025REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

01/07/2026REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 2478

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 21, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
 cations

 AN ACT to amend the public service law and the public authorities law,
 in relation to establishing a clean and resilient energy program

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

 1 Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a new section
 2 66-x to read as follows:
 3 § 66-x. Clean and resilient energy program. 1. As used in this
 4 section:
 5 (a) "Clean and resilient behind the meter distributed energy resource
 6 project" means an electricity generating system located behind a custom-
 7 er meter in the state that is configured to provide uninterrupted elec-
 8 tric service to a customer throughout an extended outage of the elec-
 9 tricity distribution system, and which:
 10 (i) (1) generates electricity without producing greenhouse gases or
 11 local combustion related pollutants; or
 12 (2) generates electricity or electricity and thermal energy via a
 13 non-combustion process at an annual average efficiency of no less than
 14 fifty-five percent measured on a lower heating value basis; or
 15 (3) generates electricity and thermal energy at an annual average
 16 efficiency of no less than seventy percent measured on a lower heating
 17 value basis and reduces the local combustion related air pollutant
 18 oxides of nitrogen by at least fifty percent in comparison to the most
 19 recent annual average marginal emission factors, accounting for line
 20 losses, for the New York independent system operator zone in which the
 21 project is located at the time of interconnection; and
 22 (ii) is located at a community continuity asset or within the bounda-
 23 ries of an existing or planned microgrid.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06156-01-5

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 1 (b) "Community continuity asset" means a public or private entity that
 2 provides critical services to the public during an outage of the elec-
 3 tric distribution system. Community continuity assets shall include, but
 4 are not limited to: telecommunications providers, large retail stores,
 5 supermarkets, government agencies, data centers, transportation systems,
 6 financial institutions, gas stations, educational institutions, health
 7 care providers, large multi-family residential housing, community
 8 centers, and other customers deemed by the commission to provide a crit-
 9 ical service to the public that would promote or enhance health and
 10 safety during an outage of the electric distribution system.
 11 (c) "Extended outage" means an outage of the electric distribution
 12 system that continues for a period of twenty-four hours or longer.
 13 (d) "Uninterrupted" means that the output of the system is delivered
 14 to the end-use customer throughout an extended electric distribution
 15 system outage, with the exception of momentary interruptions associated
 16 with transitions to and from grid parallel and grid islanded operations.
 17 (e) "Microgrid" means a load or group of interconnected loads and
 18 distributed energy resources within clearly defined electrical bounda-
 19 ries that acts as a single controllable entity with respect to the grid.
 20 A microgrid can connect and disconnect from the grid to enable it to
 21 operate in both grid-connected or island-mode.
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