New York S 3682: Relates to storm hardening and system resiliency plans

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S03682 Summary:

BILL NOS03682 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORCOMRIE

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COSPNSRHARCKHAM, HINCHEY

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §66, Pub Serv L

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Requires each electric corporation to submit a storm hardening and system resiliency plan to the public service commission for review and approval; makes related provisions.

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BILL NOS03682 

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01/29/2025REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

01/07/2026REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 3682

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 29, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, HARCKHAM, HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered
 printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy
 and Telecommunications

 AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to storm hardening
 and system resiliency plans

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

 1 Section 1. Legislative findings. 1. The Legislature hereby finds and
 2 declares that, due to the rise in storm intensity, dedicated storm hard-
 3 ening programs need to be developed and implemented throughout New York
 4 State to reduce damage and costs from future weather events. Storm hard-
 5 ening is the process of constructing new, or upgrading old, infrastruc-
 6 ture to increase resiliency and overall reliability during weather
 7 events. In 2018, Winter Storm Riley and Winter Storm Quinn greatly
 8 impacted New York's electric distribution system with nearly 500,000
 9 customers losing power. In August 2020, Tropical Storm Isaias brought
 10 high winds, downed trees and widespread power outages to much of the
 11 state; hundreds of thousands of customers in Long Island, New York City,
 12 Westchester and Rockland counties experienced extensive power outages,
 13 some lasting for more than a week. Legislative hearings following these
 14 storms made it clear that enhanced storm hardening efforts are needed to
 15 mitigate some of the impacts to the distribution infrastructure and
 16 customers.
 17 2. It is in the state's interest to strengthen electric utility
 18 infrastructure to withstand extreme weather conditions by promoting the
 19 hardening of electrical transmission and distribution facilities, the
 20 undergrounding of certain electrical distribution lines, and enhanced
 21 vegetation management, including the removal of danger trees;
 22 3. Protecting and strengthening transmission and distribution elec-
 23 trical utility infrastructure from extreme weather conditions can effec-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05237-01-5

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 1 tively reduce restoration costs and outage times to customers and
 2 improve overall service reliability for customers;
 3 4. It is in the state's interest for each utility to mitigate restora-
 4 tion costs and outage times to utility customers when developing trans-
 5 mission and distribution storm protection plans; and
 6 5. All customers benefit from the reduced costs of storm restoration.
 7 § 2. Section 66 of the public service law is amended by adding a new
 8 subdivision 33 to read as follows:
 9 33. (a) Each electric corporation subject to section twenty-five-a of
 10 this chapter shall, pursuant to regulation by the commission, submit a
 11 storm hardening and system resiliency plan to the commission for review
 12 and approval. Each plan shall propose storm hardening and resiliency
 13 measures for the next ten years and shall explain the systematic
 14 approach the corporation will follow to achieve the objectives of miti-
 15 gating restoration costs and reducing outage times associated with
 16 extreme weather events and enhancing reliability, as well as such other
 17 additional objectives the commission may require consistent with ensur-
 18 ing increased resiliency of utility infrastructure and overall reliabil-
 19 ity during extreme weather events. The commission shall adopt rules to
 20 specify the elements that must be included