What's happening
This bill prohibits New York City from contracting for energy transmitted into the state from outside the United States via new transmission lines that don't allow access to in-state electric generation.
Why it matters
Prioritizes in-state energy generation. by preventing New York City from buying or contracting for electricity imported from outside the U.S. on new transmission lines, unless those lines also allow New York-based generators to access and transmit power within the state.
Impacts large-scale infrastructure and energy projects. by potentially discouraging investment in new cross-border transmission lines that don’t integrate local power sources, thereby shaping the types of energy infrastructure built in New York.
Could affect energy prices and reliability. by limiting the city’s ability to access potentially cheaper or more abundant renewable energy from outside the country, depending on how much in-state generation is available to meet demand.
Aims to support local jobs and the state’s energy economy. by ensuring that new transmission infrastructure does not bypass New York’s own power producers, potentially helping to maintain or increase local employment and tax revenues tied to energy generation.
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Ban Foreign Energy Purchases
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Ban Foreign Energy Purchases
In Senate Committee · Cities · Sponsor Terrence P. Murphy
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STATE OF NEW YORK
8453
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 16, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. BARNWELL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Cities
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the authority to contract for energy
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 22-302 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:
§ 22-302 Acquisition of energy and facilities. The city shall contract for or otherwise purchase or acquire hydroelectric or other forms of energy as shall be available from the power authority of the state of New York, the state, any state agency, any other municipal corporation, or any private or public corporation, and shall arrange to use, lease or acquire the transmission, substation and distribution facilities necessary to furnish such power to the city and, for compensation, to residential, commercial, industrial and other customers; provided, however, that the city will not acquire or build any electric or gas transmission or distribution facilities which are parallel to, or duplicative of electric or gas transmission or distribution facilities of any utility companies within the city, nor take any action to impair any agreements, franchises, rights or obligations of any utility company within the city including, to provide safe, adequate and efficient service to conduct its business in the city and to protect its assets unless so authorized by further local law and public referendum.
Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, rule, regulation, policy, order or executive action to the contrary, the city shall not contract for or otherwise purchase energy or environmental attributes associated with energy from the power authority of the state of New York, or any individual, trustee, partnership, association, corporation, company, municipality, state, political subdivision or other legal entity if such energy is transmitted over an electric transmission line, including but
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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not limited to a high voltage direct current electric transmission line, that enters commercial operation after the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand seventeen that added this paragraph and that interconnects a location outside the territorial limits of the United States to a location within the state of New York and such transmission line does not provide access within the state to electric generating facilities located within the state of New York to transmit energy to a location within the state of New York.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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