New York A 8378: Relates to qualified energy storage systems

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A08378 Summary:

BILL NOA08378 

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SAME ASSAME AS S05506

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SPONSORLevenberg

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COSPNSRReyes, Simon

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§66-r, 137, 140 & 145, Pub Serv L; amd §224-d, Lab L

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Relates to qualified energy storage systems; authorizes energy storage permitting under the office of renewable energy siting and electric transmission.

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BILL NOA08378 

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05/13/2025referred to energy

01/07/2026referred to energy

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8378

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 13, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. LEVENBERG -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Energy

 AN ACT to amend the public service law and the labor law, in relation to
 qualified energy storage systems

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1-a of section 66-r of the public service law,
 2 as amended by section 32 of part O of chapter 58 of the laws of 2024, is
 3 amended to read as follows:
 4 1-a. For the purposes of this section, an "other covered project"
 5 means: (a) any "thermal energy network" as defined by subdivision twen-
 6 ty-nine of section two of this chapter; (b) any offshore wind supply
 7 chain project, including but not limited to port infrastructure, primary
 8 component manufacturing, finished component manufacturing, subassembly
 9 manufacturing, subcomponent manufacturing, or raw material producers, or
 10 a combination thereof receiving direct funding from the New York state
 11 energy research and development authority pursuant to an award under a
 12 New York state energy research and development authority solicitation;
 13 [or] (c) a "major utility transmission facility" as such term is defined
 14 by section one hundred twenty of this chapter or "major electric trans-
 15 mission facility" as defined by article VIII of this chapter; or (d) any
 16 qualified energy storage system, as such term is defined in subdivision
 17 one of section seventy-four of this article, with a nameplate capacity
 18 of twenty-five thousand kilowatts or more and interconnected to the
 19 state's electricity grid.
 20 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 137 of the public service law, as added
 21 by section 11 of part O of chapter 58 of the laws of 2024, is amended to
 22 read as follows:
 23 4. "Major renewable energy facility" means any renewable energy
 24 system, as such term is defined in section sixty-six-p of this chapter,
 25 with a nameplate generating capacity of twenty-five thousand kilowatts

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09637-01-5

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 1 or more, [and] any co-located system storing energy generated from such
 2 a renewable energy system prior to delivering it to the bulk trans-
 3 mission system, or any qualified energy storage system, as such term is
 4 defined in subdivision one of section seventy-four of this chapter, with
 5 a nameplate capacity of twenty-five thousand kilowatts or more and
 6 interconnected to the state's electricity grid, including all associated
 7 appurtenances to electric plants, including electric transmission facil-
 8 ities less than ten miles in length in order to provide access to load
 9 and to integrate such facilities into the state's bulk electric trans-
 10 mission system.
 11 § 3. Subdivision 5 of section 140 of the public service law, as added
 12 by section 11 of part O of chapter 58 of the laws of 2024, is amended
 13 and a new subdivision six is added to read as follows:
 14 5. This section shall not apply:
 15 (a) to normal repairs, maintenance, replacements, non-material modifi-
 16 cations and improvements of a major renewable energy facility subject to
 17 this article, whenever built, which are performed in the ordinary course
 18 of business and which do not constitute a violation of any applicable
 19 existing permit; [and]
 20 (b) to a major renewable energy facility if, on or before [the effec-
 21 tive date of this article] December