NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A276
SPONSOR: Barrett TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the public service law and the environmental conserva-
tion law, in relation to increasing the statewide energy storage capaci-
ty
PURPOSE OF THE BILL:
This bill increases the State's energy storage target for 2030 estab-
lished by the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA)
from 3 GW to 6 GW.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
§ 1: Subdivision 1 of Section 137 of the Public Service Law is amended
to increase the statewide energy storage capacity target for 2030 from 3
GW to 6 GW.
§ 2: Paragraph e of subdivision 13 of Section 75-0103 of the Environ-
mental Conservation Law is amended to increase the statewide energy
storage capacity target for 2030 from 3 GW to 6 GW.
§ 3: Subdivision 5 of section 66-p of the Public Service Law is amended
to increase the statewide,,, energy storage capacity target for 2030
from 3. GW to 6 GW.
§ 4: Effective date.
JUSTIFICATION:
In 2019, New York State enacted the Climate Leadership and Community
Protection Act (CLCPA), the nation's most comprehensive climate legis-
lation. In 2020, the State enacted specific statutory CLCPA targets for
renewable energy generation, including a requirement that the State
procure a minimum of 3 gigawatts (GW) of energy storage capacity by
2030.
On January 5, 2022, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced in her
State of the State address an intention to double the state's 2030 ener-
gy storage deployment target, from the currently legislated 3 GW of
storage to 6 GW of storage by 2030. The Department of Public.Service
(DPS) and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
(NYSERDA) were directed to, and subsequently did, update New York
State's Energy Roadmap to achieve at least 6 GW of energy storage
deployment by 2030.
Energy storage is a key enabling technology to achieve the state's
renewable energy and climate goals, providing increased grid flexibili-
ty, enabling the widescale deployment of renewable energy, promoting
efficient use of grid resources, and enhancing grid resiliency.
This legislation will codify the increase of energy storage capacity
from 3 GW to 6 GW by 2030, enabling us to meet our CLCPA goals while
maintaining reliability.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2024: A.8614/S.8229
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
To be determined.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately; provided, that the amendments to
section 137 of the public service law made by section one of this act
shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be deemed repealed
therewith.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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276
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BARRETT, ROSENTHAL, SIMON, COLTON, PAULIN,
SIMONE, STECK, STERN, FORREST, LUNSFORD -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Environmental Conservation
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.
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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.
