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History
- Print number 8770a
- Amend (t) and recommit to environmental conservation
- Referred to environmental conservation
- Referred to environmental conservation
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BILL NUMBER:A8770A
Title of bill
An act to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to mandating operators of water treatment and desalination plants to be required to integrate renewable energy systems
Purpose
To require any operator of a water treatment and desalination plant in this state to integrate and utilize renewable energy systems and technology as a means to operate such plants.
Summary of provisions
Section 1. amends the public service law by adding 89-q. Renewable energy sources. "Renewable energy resources" shall mean solar, wind, photovoltaics, tidal, geothermal, fuel cell technologies and low impact, run-of-river hydroelectric electric gener- ating equipment with capacity up to thirty megawatts with no new storage impoundment.
JUSTIFICATION:; Methods to power water treatment plants, particularly desalination plants, require a disproportionate amount of energy. Increasing water supply should not mean increasing carbon emissions. To prevent this treatment plants must obtain energy from renewable sources.
Legislative history
New.
Fiscal implications
This requirement would result in hundreds of dollars in savings each year for consumers, including the government agencies that consume water from these facilities.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law.
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