New York A 10519: Requires the office of renewable energy siting and electric transmission to establish and/or amend rules and regulations pertaining to standards related to siting major renewable energy facilities

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A10519 Summary:

BILL NOA10519A

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SAME ASSAME AS S08712-B

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SPONSORWoerner

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COSPNSRLupardo

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§137 & 138, Pub Serv L

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Requires the office of renewable energy siting and electric transmission to establish and/or amend rules and regulations pertaining to standards related to the siting, design, construction and operation of major renewable energy facilities; requires such rules and regulations to include information relating to farmland protection and application procedures; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof.

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BILL NOA10519A

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03/06/2026referred to energy

06/02/2026amend and recommit to energy

06/02/2026print number 10519a

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 10519--A

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 6, 2026
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 Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER, LUPARDO -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Energy -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
 reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to the siting,
 design, construction and operation of major renewable energy facili-
 ties and to applications therefor

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

 1 Section 1. Section 137 of the public service law is amended by adding
 2 a new subdivision 14 to read as follows:
 3 14. "Agrivoltaics project" shall mean an agrivoltaic project as
 4 defined pursuant to section nineteen hundred two of the public authori-
 5 ties law.
 6 § 2. Section 137 of the public service law is amended by adding two
 7 new subdivisions 14 and 15 to read as follows:
 8 14. "Agrivoltaics project" shall mean the simultaneous use of areas of
 9 land for both solar power generation and agriculture through a ground-
 10 mounted photovoltaic solar energy system constructed, installed, and
 11 operated to achieve integrated and simultaneous production of both solar
 12 energy and marketable agricultural products or activities by an agricul-
 13 tural producer, provided that such use:
 14 (a) is constructed, installed, and operated to achieve integrated and
 15 simultaneous production of both solar energy and marketable agricultural
 16 products or activities consistent with commercial agricultural
 17 production, as soon as agronomically feasible and continuing until
 18 decommissioning, on land beneath or between solar panels;
 19 (b) has been intentionally planned and designed with agricultural
 20 producers or experts;
 21 (c) has provisions for decommissioning to protect the land's agricul-
 22 tural resources and utility; and
 23 (d) does not significantly displace farming activity.
 24 15. "Agricultural products or activities" shall include: (a) crop
 25 production; (b) animal husbandry; and (c) livestock grazing or cattle
 26 grazing; provided, however, that agricultural products or activities

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD14269-06-6

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 1 shall not include sheep grazing as the sole farming activity except
 2 where the land utilized is currently utilized primarily or exclusively
 3 for such purpose; and provided further, however, that agricultural
 4 products or activities shall not include pollinator habitats, apiaries,
 5 or both as the sole farming activities.
 6 § 3. Subdivision 1 of section 138 of the public service law is amended
 7 by adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
 8 (d) In its review of applications for permits pursuant to this arti-
 9 cle, ORES shall give priority to previously developed sites and existing
 10 or abandoned commercial sites, including without limitation brownfields,
 11 landfills, former commercial or industrial sites, dormant electric
 12 generating sites, parking lots as defined in section one hundred twen-
 13 ty-nine-b of the vehicle and traffic law, warehouse distribution centers
 14 as defined in section seven hundred eighty of the labor law, correction-
 15 al facilities as defined in art