S 2086: Increases the statewide energy storage capacity to six gigawatts by the year 2030, twelve gigawatts of statewide energy storage capacity by 2040, and seventeen gigawatts of statewide energy storage capacity by 2050.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2086 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 15, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. KAVANAGH, HARCKHAM, ROLISON -- 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 and the environmental conserva- tion law, in relation to increasing the statewide energy storage capacity The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 137 of the public service law, as 2 added by section 11 of part O of chapter 58 of the laws of 2024, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 1. "CLCPA targets" shall mean the public policies established in the 5 climate leadership and community protection act enacted in chapter one 6 hundred six of the laws of two thousand nineteen, including but not 7 limited to the requirement that a minimum of seventy percent of the 8 statewide electric generation be produced by renewable energy systems by 9 two thousand thirty, that by the year two thousand forty the statewide 10 electrical demand system will generate zero emissions, and the procure- 11 ment of at least nine gigawatts of offshore wind electricity generation 12 by two thousand thirty-five, six gigawatts of photovoltaic solar gener- 13 ation by two thousand twenty-five and to support [three] six gigawatts 14 of statewide energy storage capacity by two thousand thirty. 15 § 2. Paragraph e of subdivision 13 of section 75-0103 of the environ- 16 mental conservation law, as added by chapter 106 of the laws of 2019, is 17 amended to read as follows: 18 e. Measures to achieve six gigawatts of distributed solar energy 19 capacity installed in the state by two thousand twenty-five, nine giga- 20 watts of offshore wind capacity installed by two thousand thirty-five, a 21 statewide energy efficiency goal of one hundred eighty-five trillion 22 British thermal units energy reduction from the two thousand twenty-five EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00201-01-5 
 S. 2086 2 1 forecast; and [three] six gigawatts of statewide energy storage capacity 2 by two thousand thirty. 3 § 3. Subdivision 5 of section 66-p of the public service law, as added 4 by chapter 106 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows: 5 5. No later than July first, two thousand twenty-four, the commission 6 shall establish programs to require the procurement by the state's load 7 serving entities of at least nine gigawatts of offshore wind electricity 8 generation by two thousand thirty-five and six gigawatts of photovoltaic 9 solar generation by two thousand twenty-five, and to support [three] six 10 gigawatts of statewide energy storage capacity by two thousand thirty. 11 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, that the amend- 12 ments to section 137 of the public service law made by section one of 13 this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be deemed 14 repealed therewith.