New York S 10546: Enacts the homegrown energy act

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S10546 Summary:

BILL NOS10546 

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SAME ASSAME AS A09297-A

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SPONSORGONZALEZ

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COSPNSRFAHY

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MLTSPNSR

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Requires hyperscale data centers to offset their electricity demand by funding household electrification measures.

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BILL NOS10546 

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05/20/2026REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 10546

 IN SENATE

 May 20, 2026
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 Introduced by Sen. GONZALEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
 cations

 AN ACT in relation to requiring host community benefits

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

 1 Section 1. Host community benefit. 1. Definitions. For the purposes of
 2 this act, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
 3 (a) "Data center" means all facilities, or a combination of facili-
 4 ties, under common ownership at the same site, that receive service from
 5 an electric corporation, gas corporation, or municipality, as defined in
 6 the public service law, or have applied or requested to receive such
 7 service, and have a peak demand of twenty megawatts or more that is used
 8 for:
 9 (i) computing infrastructure, not including manufacturing;
 10 (ii) data processing services;
 11 (iii) web hosting services, not including software publishing;
 12 (iv) streaming support services, not including streaming distribution;
 13 and
 14 (v) other related services and functions as defined in rules and regu-
 15 lations promulgated by the commission.
 16 (b) "Host community" shall mean any town or city within which a data
 17 center defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision, or any portion
 18 thereof, has been proposed for development.
 19 (c) "Eligible residential technologies" means:
 20 (i) cold-climate heat pumps for space heating and cooling;
 21 (ii) heat pump water heaters;
 22 (iii) rooftop solar photovoltaic systems; and/or
 23 (iv) behind-the-meter battery storage systems.
 24 (d) "Utility" means an electric distribution utility corporation regu-
 25 lated pursuant to section 66 of the public service law.
 26 2. Each new data center, or any existing data center undergoing a
 27 major expansion that will meet or exceed twenty megawatts of additional
 28 load, shall, pursuant to subdivision three of this section, fund a

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD13988-05-6

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 1 program to: (a) provide a discount or credit on the electric utility
 2 bills of the local utility's residential customers in a host community;
 3 or (b) install eligible residential technologies for such customers.
 4 3. The public service commission shall, within ninety days from the
 5 effective date of this subdivision, commence a proceeding to establish a
 6 program under which data center owners would be required to fund a
 7 program to provide a discount or credit on the electric utility bills of
 8 the utility's customers in a host community, or to install eligible
 9 residential technologies for such customers. Such proceeding shall
 10 establish a process to notify host communities and allow such community
 11 to indicate whether discounts or credits on utility bills or the instal-
 12 lation of any eligible residential technologies is their preferred use
 13 of program funding. Such proceeding shall further determine the amount
 14 of such discount, credit, or amount of eligible residential technologies
 15 to be installed based on all factors deemed appropriate by the commis-
 16 sion, including the expected average electrical demand of the facility,
 17 the average number of customers within the data center host community,
 18 and the expected aggregate annual electric consumption within such host
 19 community, and shall include prioritization of low- and moderate-income
 20 households and disadvantaged communities, as defined in subdivision five
 21 of section 75-0101 of the environmental conservation law, and th