A 289: Includes fuel-flexible linear generators which do not utilize a fossil fuel resource in the process of generating electricity as qualifying as renewable energy systems.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 289 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BARRETT, CONRAD, MAGNARELLI, SEAWRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Energy AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to the definition of renewable energy systems The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 66-p of the 2 public service law, as amended by section 3 of part QQ of chapter 56 of 3 the laws of 2023, is amended to read as follows: 4 (b) "renewable energy systems" means systems that generate electricity 5 or thermal energy through use of the following technologies: solar ther- 6 mal, photovoltaics, on land and offshore wind, hydroelectric, geothermal 7 electric, geothermal ground source heat, tidal energy, wave energy, 8 ocean thermal, [and] fuel cells which do not utilize a fossil fuel 9 resource in the process of generating electricity, and fuel-flexible 10 linear generators which do not utilize a fossil fuel resource in the 11 process of generating electricity. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00260-01-5