New York Senate Bill S02481 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2481 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 21, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni- cations AN ACT directing the New York state energy research and development authority study the feasibility of creating, storing and transferring hydrogen energy to residential and commercial structures The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. For the purposes of this act, "municipality" shall mean any 2 city or town with a population greater than 20,000. 3 § 2. The New York state energy research and development authority is 4 authorized and directed to study the feasibility of creating, storing 5 and transferring hydrogen energy to residential and commercial struc- 6 tures in municipalities. Such study shall include, but not be limited 7 to: 8 (a) the ability of municipalities to power residential and commercial 9 structures via hydrogen power; 10 (b) the effectiveness of hydrogen power in supplementing or supplant- 11 ing the electrical grids of municipalities; 12 (c) the cost of building hydrogen power plants in municipalities; 13 (d) the cost of storing power generated by hydrogen power; and 14 (e) the cost of transferring hydrogen power to residential and commer- 15 cial structures in municipalities. 16 § 3. The New York state energy research and development authority 17 shall make a report to the governor and the legislature of its findings, 18 conclusions, and recommendations no later than 15 months after the 19 effective date of this act and shall submit with this report such legis- 20 lative proposals as it deems necessary to implement its recommendations. 21 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06637-01-5