Section 1901 - [Expires Effective 12/31/2030] Definitions As used in this title, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
1. "Authority" shall have the same meaning as in subdivision two of section eighteen hundred fifty-one of this article.2. "Commission" shall mean the public service commission.3. "Departments" shall mean the department of environmental conservation, the department of agriculture and markets, the department of economic development and the department of public service.4. "Environmental justice area" shall mean a minority or low-income community that may bear a disproportionate share of the negative environmental consequences resulting from industrial, municipal, and commercial operations or the execution of federal, state, local, and tribal programs and policies.5. "Host community" shall mean any municipality within which a major renewable energy facility or qualified energy storage system, or any portion thereof, has been proposed for development.6. "Renewable energy facility" shall have the same meaning as renewable energy systems defined in section sixty-six-p of the public service law.7. "Municipality" shall mean a county, city, town or village or political subdivision.8. "Build-ready site" shall mean a site for which the authority has secured permits, property interests, agreements and/or other authorizations necessary to offer such site for further development, construction and operation of a renewable energy facility, with or without a paired qualified energy storage system, or a stand-alone qualified energy storage system, in accordance with the other provisions of this title.9. "Qualified energy storage system" shall have the same meaning as qualified energy storage system defined in section seventy four of the public service law.N.Y. Pub. Auth. Law § 1901
Amended by New York Laws 2024, ch. 58,Sec. M-4, eff. 4/20/2024.Added by New York Laws 2020, ch. 58,Sec. JJJ-6, eff. 4/3/2020, exp. 12/31/2030.